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Track: Mr. Ben and The Bens – Watering Can
We’ve already waxed lyrical aboutMr Ben and the Bens ‘Beast in the House’ video (and track), taken from their forthcoming album Life Drawing, out on July 10th via Bella Union, we aren’t going to let up with the release of follow up track Watering Can. Of the track bandleader Ben Hall says: “Watering can is a gently-swaying brassy …
Premiere: Stina Stjern – Me and the Moth plus EP Review
It’s been two years since I reviewed Norway’s Stina Stjern‘s extraordinary album ‘Kap Herschell’ – describing it as an enigmatic, haunting masterpiece that seems to capture the Arctic chill of the north while offering a warm enveloping refuge. Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere Stjern’s new single ‘Me and the Moth’ off her EP ‘The …
Track: Glenn Thomas – All you can do
Out now is the new single from singer-songwriter Glenn Thomas, ‘All you can do’, taken from his forthcoming album Reassure me there’s a window, out on May 15th via Palace Flophouse Records. All you can do has this sweeping haziness about it, with Thomas’s vocal creeping over the top of this indie-folk backing, with drips …
Track: Christine & The Queens – I disappear in your arms
Christine and the Queens has announced her new single ‘I disappear in your arms’, is out now and lifted from her surprise EP she released earlier in the year. It’s getting a vinyl and cd release via Because Music on May 29th. I disappear in your arms is effortless in so many ways -effortlessly melodic, …
See: Venus Furs reveals new video for Living in Constant
Taken from his debut album out later in the year, Venus Furs, aka Montreal’s Paul Kasner, has released a video for his latest single Living In Constant. It’s a stately affair built on this guitar riff that oozes some of the melancholy Kasner builds on with his keenly affecting vocal. The stripped back nature of …
See: Pottery reveal new video for Hot Like Jungle
Montreal indie five piece Pottery have released a new video for Hot Like Jungle, the third single to be taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘Welcome to Bobby’s Motel, out on June 26th via Partisan Records. Speaking on the song’s inspiration, the band says: “This was written as a love song for Paul’s girlfriend. He had …
Premiere: Modern Hinterland reveal new video for Just be sitting with you
Modern Hinterland, whose much vaunted album ‘The Longest Part of the Night’ was released earlier in the year on Label Fandango, have recorded a session for BBC Intoducing, and from it we’re delighted to be premiering ‘Just be sitting with you’. What began as a solo project for songwriter Chris Hornsby has expanded with the …
Album Review: Pilotcan – No More Shan Goodbyes
Edinburgh’s Pilotcan has just released their fifth album ‘No More Shan Goodbyes’ and it is an absolute delight. Bringing together elements of nineties low-fi simplicity with a touch of eighties pop grunge, the common thread is a bunch of haunting, wistful intelligent songs. Of the album, front man Keiron Mellotte notes that he was writing …
INTERVIEW: BC Camplight – Shortly After Takeoff
We had the pleasure recently of catching up with BC Camplight (aka Brian Christinzio) as he returns with a new album “Shortly After Takeoff”, out on 24th April via Bella Union. Our review of the album is here and suffice to say it is the best of Christinzio’s career. He was just moving into his …
Track: Slow Crush – Reel
Shoegaze seems to be a genre that undertook a popular resurgence in the latter part of the ’00s. My Bloody Valentine released new music, a number of musicians took influence from the genre and, in 2018 to be precise, Belgian quartet Slow Crush released Aurora. Such was the appeal of the album that the band …