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Premiere: BOB to release new single, the uplifting indie pop of Telepathy
Right here on your official BOB channel (actually, probably unofficial, but why not – we damn well love them) we’re delighted to premiere the latest single to be taken from their forthcoming ‘You Can Stop That For A Start’ album, whose release on 29th September on the Optic Nerve imprint grows ever closer. Unlike John …
Say Psych: Premiere: Singapore Sling – Sickin’ Street
Reykjavík maverick Henrik Björnsson is due to release Good Sick Fun, his 11th album under the Singapore Sling project, on 25 September via Fuzz Club Records and BSM brings you the premiere of the first track to be taken from it, ‘Sickin’ Street’ – an exercise in mechanical drum-machine, piercing tremolo-heavy noise and sinister vocal …
PREMIERE: Hear the wild, loose psych of Muzzle Tung’s new album ‘Gannet’ in full
I KNOW, I know. You’ve got an aural itch you just need to scratch, right? You want psych. But aah … that’s nearly hit the spot, but … OK, maybe not just psych. Loose and ragged, unafraid to let it all hang out; the edges fuzzing and bleeding. Hmmm. I’ve got just the thing, comin’ …
Feature: Andy Tillison of The Tangent takes us through ‘Auto Reconnaissance’ track by track
WHAT started life as a side project – a chance for Andy Tillison, Parallel or 90 Degrees keyboard player, to kick back and explore some other deep musical avenues in the company of like minds – has really taken on a life of its own this past decade. Beginning with the twin-suite sequence of The …
Premiere: Asses Release new track, ‘Strange Habits’
Founded by Markus Siegenhort (Lantlos) and Christian Kolf (Valborg) with drummer Patrick Schroeder in 2017, and abandoning their early grindcore style in favour of the garage/alt-rock they sit within now, Asses are gearing up to the Release of their debut EP ‘Feelings of a boy’, out via Wolves And Vibrancy Records on September 25th. From it …
PREMIERE: See the video for Urlaub in Polen’s ‘Impulse Response’: Cologne duo reunite, LP to follow
COLOGNE’S Urlaub in Polen – the new wave-tronica duo of singer George Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen – have been away from our turntables for almost a decade now. In fact it’s nine years since they released album no.5, Boldstriker, and promptly announced it was all over. But the giddy wheel of time shifteth …
Premiere: Killer Whale release new video and single ‘Drop Out’
Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Tastes Like Yesterday’, out via Devil in the Woods Records on September 18th, we’re delighted to premiere the new single and video from Louisiana’s Killer Whale right here on Backseat Mafia. After spending time in New Orleans, the band drew on the likes of Dirty Projectors, even Unknown Mortal Orchestra, …
Premiere: Fever Queen release new single,’Charmer’
Fever Queen is the moniker of Chicago based songwriter Eleanor Rose Lee. She’s releasing her debut album, The World of Fever Queen on September 10th via First To Knock, and from it we’re delighted to premiere her new single Charmer. The album draws on her experiences working and travelling across America, and contains a couple …
Premiere: BAIRD releases new single, ‘Sunken Place’
London based dance-pop artist BAIRD has today released his international music debut with a single and accompanying video, Sunken Place, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Growing up between Canada, Berlin and London with an Irish background gave BAIRD the opportunity to gather together cultures, influences as well as …
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …