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PREMIERE: Brook Pridemore is ‘Glad to Be Alive’, announces new record with brilliant lead track ‘Wore Me Well’
Meet Brook Pridemore. If you know them, you don’t know them like their new record. It’s out later in the year, it’s called Glad to Be Alive and it’s the next chapter in the storied career of someone last seen diving into metal on last year’s Trve Grind EP. The Brooklynite’s 15-track album doesn’t have …
Premiere: saachisen Shines On Delicate And Heartfelt New Single ‘The Gap’
Following live appearances at the likes of Frank Turner’s Lost Evenings II, Cambridge Big Weekend, Elderflower Fields and performing to over 10,000 people at London Pride, Indian born now London based singer-songwriter saachisen has made a name for herself as one to watch. The solo talented is back with her new single ‘The Gap’ and …
Premiere: Maia Marsh’s ‘Big Deal’ is a mesmerising, enchanting single fusing a dream pop fugue with a folk ambience.
Sydney’s Maia Marsh has an impressive form, having been a session musician (lead guitar, bass, vocals) for a number of artists including Huck Hastings who has graced our pages before and Ainsley Farrell, Georgia Mulligan, Georgia Fair and Gloomie. In addition, she was a founding member of dream pop outfit Goodside as well as being …
PREMIERE: Karaboudjan previews new EP with the expansive ‘Scatter’
The Southern California-based Billy Kim impressed us when he released his debut EP as Karaboudjan last year, with IMAGO putting him on the map as a solo artist. Kim is also part of Tycho‘s live band, where he cut his teeth before embarking on a career of his own, and it’s taking him places. His …
Premiere: Ardz Shares Lyric Video For Track ‘Dancing In The Rain’
London artist Ardz has released the lyric video for his new track ‘Dancing In The Rain’ which is taken from his first EP ‘C.O.I. Dance to the Apocalypse, Please’. We are pleased to be premiering the video here at Backseat Mafia. Ardz states: “It’s a song for our times, how one day we’ll be cherishing …
Premiere: Darcy Lane’s ‘Bored’: a soft and sultry observation on the ephemeral nature of modern life, plus single launch date and EP announced.
We are very honoured to premiere on Backseat Mafia the new single ‘Bored’ from Eora/Sydney-based alternative-pop artist Darcy Lane. This is a heavenly pop delight which assuages the temporal gloom we face these days with a silky soft and haunting refrain. It contrasts the sweetest pop delivery with an acerbic theme that acutely observes the …
Premiere: Meanjin/Brisbane magicians Terra Pines unleash a sonic wall of brilliance in new single ‘Indoor Kid’ ahead of ‘Downbeats’, their new album.
Brisbane’s Terra Pines‘ ‘Indoor Kid’ is a sonic wall of brilliance: a track that hammers and claws its way into your head and takes permanent residence, lounging around with waft of psychedelic substances in the air. We are overjoyed to premiere this piece of aural adrenalin here at Backseat Mafia. Clocking in to the consciousness …
Premiere: august at night Shares Beautiful, Moody New Single ‘Skinny Dipping’
Electronic, Alt-Pop and R&B creator august at night is back with his new single ‘Skinny Dipping’ and we’re excited to be running the premiere. Warming, delicate, melancholic and swelling with a velvety richness, ‘Skinny Dipping’ possesses a dreamy emotiveness coupled with a pleasing musicality and experimental edge. Rounded beats are surrounded by layers of muted …
Premiere: Night Movies – Unboxing Video
Night Movies is the project of London artist and musician Frederick Fuller, that he describes as, “Kind of as a bedroom project, something to do with my mate Pete, a place for my loop pedal experiments and weird Brian Eno style short songs separate to my other bands”. With the release of the album Dreamish last …
Premiere: The Valery Trails lead us to a dreamy paradise with video for ‘Zancudo’ on the eve of their new album ‘The Sky Is Blue’.
Brisbane jangle pop exponents The Valery Trails enticed us in with their single ‘Jaisalmer‘ back in June, and their follow up single ‘Zancudo’ confirms their prowess at creating an indelible sweet pop sound. We are very proud to premiere their new video for this sonic slice of sunshine. Expansive multi-layered vocals create a heavenly chorus …