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Track: Minneriket Shares The Stark And Beautiful Track – Hjemlengsel
Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Stein Akslen new project Minneriket draws on influences as various as punk, goth and classical with the intensity of the early Norwegian black metal, to create deeply moving and intresting pieces of music. Track ‘Hjemlengsel’ is the first to be released from the forthcoming album ’50 Shades Of Blackness’ due later this year. Cooperating with session …
See: Moody Beach releases an exquisite video for the atmospheric dreamy track ‘Chance’
‘Chance’, by Sydney based artist Moody Beach, is a gloriously mesmerising shoegaze track that is filled with yearning and romance: a perfect slice of shimmering dream pop. There is a deep romanticism and melancholy: I was once the girlYou loved the mostLet me be the girlYou love the most Moody Beach is the work of …
Premiere: Scott Robert Allen reveals new video for the beautifully plaintive ‘Here Comes Our Family’
Former Red Shirt Brigade and Thunderbirds Are Now! Man Scott Robert Allen has returned from a near decade long hiatus with his debut self titled-album, out now on your favourite streaming services. From it, he’s released a new video for for the track ‘Here Comes Our Family’, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere …
Premiere: Liv’s Bandana reveals A New Path from forthcoming debut EP
Out on 16th April is Train Music, the debut EP from Birmingham / Norwich based Joe Webb under his Liv’s Bandana moniker, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere one of the tracks from the EP, A New Path, right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Joe told us ”A New Path is …
Premiere: Star Parks release enigmatic video for the brilliant, haunting single ‘Palm Sunday’, and announce new album ‘The New Sounds of Late Capitalism’
We are very pleased to premiere the video for Texas indie band Star Parks‘s new track ‘Palm Sunday’, as well as announce news of their new album, the delightfully titled ‘The New Sounds of Late Capitalism’ due for release on 7 May 2021 through Nine Mile Records. ‘Palm Sunday’ has a bucolic, pastoral feel that …
News: ‘Amy Winehouse At The BBC’ compilation coming 7th May
Amy Winehouse At The BBC, a retrospective collection which chronicles many of the singer’s outstanding performances during her career, will be released on 7 May 2021 through UMC/Island. For the first time ever, this expanded release offers audio-only versions of the songs featured on earlier compilations A Tribute To Amy Winehouse by Jools Holland and …
See: The immersive and trippy video for Roddy Woomble’s bright, dreampoppy ‘Architecture In LA’
FORMER Idlewild guiding light and fine solo folk artist in his own right, Roddy Woomble is shaking it all up on his latest single, “Architecture in LA”, the second to be taken from his forthcoming album Lo! Soul. Leaving those deep folk textures behind, he instead dives into the lo-fi Moog soul sunshine for a …
Premiere: Climbing Trees exclusively reveal their dynamic and shimmering new single Troubling Times.
Welsh indie giants Climbing Trees will be releasing their much anticipated new single ‘Troubling Times’ on 30 April 2021, and we here at Backseat Mafia are very excited to bring to you an exclusive first listen of the single. And it is an absolute delight. The band says: We’re chuffed to share ‘Troubling Times’ with …
EP Review: Yaya Bey chronicles heartbreak and self-reflection on ‘The Things I Can’t Take With Me’- out today
An impactful, cradle-to-grave reflection of self, Yaya Bey’s new EP The Things I Can’t Take With Me came together unexpectedly. Bey was set to record her next album when she found herself in the midst of a broken relationship, after which the original project changed direction. Its title refers to her journey of self-reflection, where …