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EP: Jeremy D’Antonio – Spinnin’ Wheels
Out now is the debut solo release from former Tiny Television and San Geronimo man Jeremy D’Antonio, Spinnin’ Wheels. He’s accompanied by musicians from the Buck Owens band (and ended up playing with Merle Haggard) which, according to Jeremy, “came to fruition because of studio owner John Macy and has been in the country music …
See: Arlo Parks reveals new video for ‘Hurt’
Arlo Parks has released a brand new video for her track, premiered as it was, as the Hottest Record on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Show. It’s the follow up to her recent lauded single Black Dog, which has received almost 10 million streams worldwide. Of the new track, Arlo says “‘Hurt’ surrounds the possibility …
Say Psych: Album Review: Japanese Television – EP III
Japanese Television don’t surf, but if they did, it would be on a swirling wave of reverb-drenched organ, garage-rock guitars, hypno-motorik bass and pounding, ritualistic drums. The band formed in 2018 through a shared love of fuzz boxes, Joe Meek and UFOs and together they invented “Space Surf”. Upon discovering it already existed, they reinvented …
Droppin’ Knowledge: “We All Get A Time To Ball” – Rapper Serengeti Talks New Album The Gentle Fall – Interview & Review
The hip hop artist speaks candidly about his writing, his new album, the meeting of Kenny and Ajai, and his love for the Before Sunrise trilogy. When the evocative rap artist Serengeti offered to send me a digital copy of his new album, The Gentle Fall, I was excited to listen, but unprepared for what …
SEE: Watch the video for Kevin Morby’s ‘Campfire’; new album for Dead Oceans; live stream ‘tour’
KANSAS’ favourite guitar-wielding son, Kevin Morby, who’s delighted us over the past seven years with five rather lovely solo albums, has announced his sixth full-length set will hit the racks on October 16th – and has released a video for the lead track,, “Campfire”. Watch it with us. With last year’s Oh My God at …
ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Callahan – ‘Gold Record’: Bill pans for nuggets and strikes again
BILL CALLAHAN. Question: can you imagine a world where we don’t have his grace, his eye for the humanity of the everyday, his profound bass-voiced grace, those songwriting abilities. Scary thought, huh? There’s been enough to scare us in this ill-starred year of our lord, 2020. So we can be grateful that he’s kinda sprung …
EP: Troye Sivan – In A Dream
Fans of Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan who have been there from the start will have seen the evolution of an artist, from the early YouTube videos to the early Eps June Haverly and TRXYE. The trilogy of videos from his debut long player Blue Neighbourhood as well as his coming out video have made him an LGBT icon. The second …
Premiere: LMNL release new single Outliar
LMNL, aka Oxford’s Simon Batten, has released a new single ‘Outliar’ taken from his upcoming debut eponymous EP, out today via Upcycled Sounds, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. Of the song, Batten explains: “It’s not really a spoiler to say that this song speaks about social anxiety, and how …
Premiere: Silent Attic release new single ‘Take My Time’
Following on from recent single Hide Away, German indie quartet Silent Attic have returned with a new track, Take My Time, that we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia today. Both tracks come from the bands upcoming EP Escape, which is out on October 2nd. Take My Time is the story of a …
Album Review: J. Zunz – Hibiscus
J.Zunz, the alias of Lorelle Meets The Obsolete‘s Lorena Quintanilla, released her debut album Silente in 2017, which melded fuzzy-or erstwhile intricate- guitars with textural synths. Since then, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete put out the highly praised De Facto in 2019, with it’s superb collision of swirling electronic manipulation and the duo’s guitar frenzies. As …