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TRACK: MUZZ – BROKEN TAMBOURINE
Broken Tambourine is the first official single from Muzz via Matador. Muzz being a new project of Paul Banks (Interpol), Josh Kaufman (producer/multi-instrumentalist and one third of Bonny Light Horseman), and Matt Barrick (drummer of Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Walkmen, and Fleet Foxes’ touring band). We were introduced to the new indie supergroup when the track …
TRACK: DIRTY PROJECTORS -SEARCH FOR LIFE AND NEW EP NEWS
After teasing us with the release of track “Overlord” featuring the voice of Maia Friedman, Dave Longstreth and his project Dirty Projectors have announced a new EP due for release on March 27th via Domino called Windows Open. The EP also marks the first bit of work from the band he put together for the Lamp …
Premiere: The Brave Faces – In The Dark
With an insistent, driving beat and crystalline guitars, ‘In The Dark’ is an instant indie anthem that is posed and elegant in its delivery. Astonishingly, this is a debut single from Brighton’s The Brave Faces: it has a pre-installed maturity that augurs well for the future of the band. Here at Backseat Mafia, we are …
Say Psych: News: Jason Simon announces new LP and shares first track ‘The Same Dream’
Jason Simon, guitarist and vocalist from Washington D.C psych-rockers Dead Meadow, returns to his solo endeavours with a pristine and bucolic album that guides his versatile guitar signature through a dreamy and yearning lyrical universe. In one of his clearest efforts to date, A Venerable Wreck brings together ideas from his band’s records displayed on a new instrumental …
EP: Squarepusher – Lamental EP
Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, has never taken the easy route, in either his output or his sense of risk taking and collaboration, with projects such as his brilliant Shobaleader One with a crack team of jazz musicians, and his project with Japanese robots – Squarepusher x Z-Machines, showing why he’s been pushing boxes for getting …
Track: The Psychedelic Furs – You’ll Be Mine
If you are like me, the very sound of The Psychedelic Furs‘s singer Richard Butler’s voice increases the pulse and sets free a wave of nostalgia. One of the coolest of the cool post punk new wave bands in the eighties, The Psychedelic Furs had such a distinctive sound and a way with melody and …
Track: Wray – Jogging/Neon Forming
‘Jogging/Neon Sway’ is an absolutely immersive and magic single from Birmingham band Wray – gentle bubbling dream pop with shimmering guitars and haunting melancholic vocals: it hits all the right buttons. And it subverts expectations – distorted voices echo in and out and a synth wash interpolates the structure. The band describes the song as …
NEWS: DINOSAUR – NEW ALBUM, SINGLE AND TOUR
Following the announcement of their highly anticipated 3rd album ‘To The Earth’, Mercury-nominated British Jazz super-group Dinosaur return with their new single ‘Mosking’. The new track is the first to be released from the new album, which is out on Edition Records this May. Mosking is a wonderfully chaotic and playful piece we have come to know from these guys. …
News: Defected announce virtual festival this Friday
Defected Records has announced a series of digital activations offering its online community – the house music world’s largest at 5m+ – opportunities to engage with the brand and each other from the comfort of their own homes, following the postponement or cancellation of all live events in March and April due to the COVID-19 …
NEWS: THE DEARS – NEW ALBUM, SINGLE AND TOUR
Gloomy pop makers The Dears have announced a new album ‘Lovers Rock’ to hit the shelves 15th May via Dangerbird Records. They will be supporting this record with a tour this coming April. Lead single “The Worst In Us” gives us a teaser of things to come. Which is sounding pretty damn good. The track …