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Australian duo Barley Passable‘s new EP ‘Hindsight’ is a crystal clear bubbling stream – cool electronic riffs gurgle and flow with surprising twists and turns with vocal melodies skimming across the surface weightlessly. And importantly, it is an intelligent and diverse album that is filled with a sense of disembodiment and melancholy. Of the EP’s …

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Last year the venerable The Psychedelic Furs returned with ‘Made of Rain’ – making it on Backseat Mafia’s list of top fifty albums of 2020 and in my view one of their best albums. In my 9/10 review I wrote it was a contemporary album for the modern times and while it has all the …

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‘Soft, I will say it softly’, Clara Mann opens on ‘Thoughtless’. The lyric encapsulates this, her debut EP via Sad Club Records. Plaintive, classic “almost folk”, quiet, private and intimate, ‘Consolations’ has an almost pictorial quality. You see yourself in the world Mann creates. It’s almost as if you stand sadly with her as she …

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British-Chilean singer-songwriter Naomi In Blue is gearing up for the release of her debut EP, An Experiment, this coming Sunday (28th February) via Walking Blacksmith Records, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Mixing up the more experimental (but no less melodic) side of Americana, Naomi wrote …

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Joseph Donnelly, aka Elkyn, has just released his new single ‘Something’ via Tambourine Machine Records. It’s the Leeds based singer-songwriters follow up to last years debut EP Beech , and the single ‘if only it was alright now’. On the track, Elkyn says “’something’ is about not feeling anything. It’s about all the things I …

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The track ‘Hera’ perfectly encapsulates the overall shimmering beauty of Heligoland‘s album ‘This Quiet Fire’ (reviewed by me recently), and the band has released an enchanting video that is the perfect cinematic vision for the track. The black and white landscapes loom ominously – the snow-laden, naked boughs and walls of frosted trees frame the …

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Spiders From Saigon are a studio based hard rock band based in the North East of England. Made of 3 core members: David, Luke and Matt the album features various guest solos and performances by other north east musicians – notably Kev Smith (Lords of Ruin) who provides blazing guitar solos on several tracks. Completely independent, the band …

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Birmingham born, Bristol based singer-songwriter Lou Main has just released his debut single Orchard, the first of a series of releases he’s got planned for 2021. Of his outlook, Lou says “I make music that brings together hip hop production with indie musicianship and poetic songwriting with influences from Kanye West to The Stone Roses …

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Atlanta-based glam punk rockers Starbenders have released their latest album ‘Love Potions (Zodiac Deluxe)’ via Sumerian Records. A deluxe version of their full-length debut album ‘Love Potions’. “Love Potions (Zodiac Deluxe)” includes five new songs captured during the making of their full length debut, including a Celtic-tinged, mandolin-laced interpretation of their single ‘BITCHES BE WITCHES’ along with a trip hop, nineties …

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Singer, songwriter and author Jehnny Beth has unveiled the music video for her latest single “French Countryside”, taken from critically acclaimed debut solo album To Love Is To Live. Surrounded by heartbreak in the form of extended piano lines and aching strings, Jehnny Beth is at her most circumspect with the beautifully melancholy French Countryside. …

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