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PREMIERE: Mute Swan – ‘Sedative Sun’: dazzling Tucson shoegaze tees up for their new album
THINK Arizona, think big, big skies; and maybe we just need to amend that a little, what with Citrus Clouds carving out an impressive shoegaze aesthetic over in Phoenix, and Mute Swan a hundred-odd clicks south-east down the Arizona Sun Corridor in Tucson also wielding massive, FX-laden six strings with potency – the state is …
Premiere: Burial Grid reveal new video for Baiting The Undertow
Burial Grid, the Massachusetts based electronic-psych producer otherwise known as Adam Kodak, has today released his new fourth full-length album, We’ve Come for Your Flesh, out via Spinal Constellation Records. We’re delighted to be able to premiere the accompanying new video for the track Bairting The Undertow right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. The …
Premiere: GEISTE releases new single ‘I just feel really empty inside all the time’
Out tomorrow via Snide Records is the new single from GEISTE – I just feel really empty inside all the time, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. It’s the follow on a productive 2020 for GEISTE, which saw her release a couple of singles, Alibi …
Premiere: The Tibbs release new video for The Main Course
Dutch soul band The Tibbs have just released a new lyric video for ‘The Main Course’, the second single taken from their new album ‘Another Shot Fired’, out via Record Kicks, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. The Main Course is a soul stomper in …
Premiere: Samana release All One Breath
Described by Elbow frontman Guy Garvey as his ‘Artist of the Year’ on his 6music show, Welsh duo Samana (aka Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett) have released a new single All One Breath, which we’re absolutely delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. Describing the track as “a rumination of our interrelations …
PREMIERE: bolomite jr. – ‘Ants’: hallucinatory soundscapery from Philly
BEN CALHOUN is, by day, a carpenter in the construction industry, keeping body and soul together with a craftsman’s skill; the better to set up him up for when he slips inside that phone box, swiftly changing to emerge in his experimental soundscaper guise as bolomite jr. And here today at Backseat Mafia, we’re pleased …
Say Psych: Premiere: REAVE – One More Night
REAVE is a newly emerged musical trio from Manchester & London. With influences such as Sylvan Esso, Johnny Marr and Depeche Mode they combine a wide range of styles from, but never limited to new wave, synth-pop and indie, their sound emits a fresh take on the best of the past. With huge drum sounds, …
Premiere: Lily Ward releases new single, Kalopsia
Cornwall born singer-songwriter Lily Ward has returned with a new single, Kalopsia, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Lily told us “The definition of kalopsia is a delusion that something is more beautiful than it actually is. It’s like when you’re in a …
Premiere: Feren Isles releases the melancholic synth pop of ‘It Finds Me’
Montreal based electropop artist Feren Isles has released a new track, and the title track from his forthcoming debut album ‘It Finds Me’, and we’re delighted to premiere the accompanying video right here today on Backseat Mafia. Of the track, a ode to anxiety and strain, he says “I wanted to share the nature of …
PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal
YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the music press alongside the likes of Lowgold and Kings of Convenience, which definition did them a massive disservice. Seek ye their albums; for further evidence …