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See: Morcheeba return with first glimpse of their upcoming new album, the video for Sounds of Blue
Legendary trip-hop band Morcheeba have announced their new, tenth studio album is out on May 14th 2021. From it they’ve released the first glimpse of what we can expect from the duo Sky Edwards and Ross Godfrey, with a video for their new single, ‘Sounds of Blue’. As with most other artists, the lockdown stripped …
Premiere: Keep Calm Stay Home reveal the lush electronica of ‘A Theme For…’
Keep Calm Stay Home is the current moniker of London based composer Oli Morgan, a man who’s worked with the likes of Seal, Bastille, Gregory Porter, Princess Nokia, Venom and more as a mastering specialist at Abbey Road studios. Lockdown left Morgan with plenty of time to express his own creativity, and his first EP, …
IFFR Review: Bipolar
Dating back to Greek antiquity, the myth of Orpheus has captivated generations of writers and creatives. As one of the only heroes to visit the underworld and return to tell his tale, he’s part of a small and distinguished group. His stories have inspired filmmakers, most notably Marcel Camus for Black Orpheus and Jean Cocteau’s …
Track: Minimal Animal reveals the heart-stopping new single, Saturated
We’ve long been in thrall of Minimal Animal, back to his Sheffield days at the head of Screaming Maldini, who we at the time thought were the best band on the planet. He’s now in Brixton, and has just released his first single of 2021 in the shape of Saturated. It’s timely given these strange …
Rising: We meet LANKS, and listen to his recent single, Cold Blood
After we heard the new song from NYC via Melbourne artist LANKS, Cold Blood, we knew we had something rather special on our hands. Glittering electro, soaked in melancholy and with this strumming guitar adding to the realism were enough to draw us in. It was these impossibly catchy melodies, as well as his soaring …
Droppin’ Knowledge: For Niagara Falls Rapper Jamal Gasol, All The World Is Piff
It started like this… It was 2008, or 2009. The rap artist Jamal Gasol has a brother, and his brother had a ring tone. It wasn’t exactly a ring tone, it was more like a voice. A disembodied voice. An annoying voice, on an annoying ringtone. “All the dude would say at the beginning was …
Track: Dave Manington – ‘Strike The Harp’
A reimagining of something old into something new is one thing, but a completely original re-invention is another.. One thing I’ve learned whilst talking to musicians is that, being a musician myself, it’s never easy to describe your own music. Luckily, when speaking to Dave Manington, one of London’s staple jazz bassists and composers, I …
TRACK: Magnus John Anderson -‘Elkhorn’: studio wizard steps out with modern compositional piano
ONE OF the sea changes we’re seeing from all this viral upheaval is the emergence of artists finding their own voice in order to create, whereas previously they might have been happy in a more collaborative set-up; or, indeed, were putting their sonic skills to the service of others in production, mastering, arrangement and other …
Premiere: Kelly Duplex release their scuffed-up, shoegazey version of ‘Here’s where the story ends’
Out now is the latest (and final) single to be taken to be taken from New Orleans-based three-piece Kelly Duplex’s forthcoming, self-titled album – out on February 12th via Strange Daisy, and their version of The Sundays classic ‘Here’s Where The Story Ends’. We’re absolutely delighted to be able to premiere the accompanying video right …
Premiere: Julia Paymer releases new single, ‘Therapy’
LA singer songwriter Julia Paymer, now based in Nashville – has returned with her new single, Therapy, out tomorrow (January 29th), and ahead of its released we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. Opening with this delicate piano line, Therapy details just that, being in therapy and its benefits …