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Track: Maverick Sabre- Don’t you know by now
Taken from from his upcoming EP, out this Summer via Famm Records is the new track from Singer-Songwriter Maverick Sabre, called Don’t you know me by now. Of the track Maverick says its is “…A song about the ending of a relationship, knowing it’s over but ending it completely being easier said than done. What …
Premiere: Score – Modern Wreck exclusive album stream, plus track by track
Score, aka Chris Tate of dance / electronica group d_rradio, is back with a new album Modern Wreck, out this Friday (5th June) on Cruel Nature Records through Bandcamp as a stream and as a limited Cassette. We’re delighted to be able to premiere the release exclusively ahead of its release here today on Backseat …
Track: Nobody – Stronger Than Blood
Tuomas Kauppinen is the Finnish one-man acoustic black metal troubadour, known as Nobody. He is set to release a debut album Atmosfear on June 26th 2020 via Inverse Records. Tuomas Kauppinen comments: “Stronger than blood is a musical journey inside the mind of a great manipulator, who can persuade children to turn against their parents and …
Track: Fall Of Messiah – Contreforts
French post-hardcore quintet FALL OF MESSIAH have streamed ‘Contreforts’, the first single from their much-awaited fourth LP, ‘Senicarne’, released 31st July via Holy Roar Records. Jarring guitars lend some calm in all the chaos of screams and drums to open this track. A math-rock style guitar duet then takes over and the band show off their knack for some …
Droppin’ Knowledge: On Dre Island’s Debut Album, Now I Rise, All Praises Go To The Most High
Seven years is an eternity in popular music. Trends, styles, tastes, and popularity divide, replicate and morph at an exhausting pace and even the greatest pop artists struggle to keep up. Social media enhances the difficulty of staying atop the pop culture firmament and, before you know it, an artist who was up today, tomorrow …
Track: The Suncharms – 3 Billion Heartbeats
There’s always something comforting about a new track from The Suncharms, the reactivated 90s Sheffield shoegaze band that deal in messy, enveloping guitars and that little bit of melancholy, and thats no different with their new one, 3 Billion Heartbeats. Taken from Indonesian micro-label / Fanzine Shiny Happy’s ‘PLease Rain Fall’ compilation album that all …
Track: The Wedding Present – Once More
National treasure and certainly in the running for greatest living songwriter (in our view) and greatest living Englishman, David Gedge formed the glorious Wedding Present in the early 1980s. The bands second single, Once More was originally released on the bands own Reception Records in 1985, and appeared on the brilliant early compilation ‘Tommy 1985-1987’. …
Album Review: Empathy Test – Monsters
With an explosive track opener like ‘Monsters’, Empathy Test clearly sets out their vast ambitions for their new album, also called ‘Monsters’. And these ambitions are decidedly and unequivocally met in what is a brilliant, bold and very exciting album. Empathy Test, in this album, tread a fine path between outright commercial accessibility and a …
Album Review: Badly Drawn Boy – Banana Skin Shoes
On ‘I’ll do my Best’, the last song of Damon Gough aka Badly Drawn Boy’s new album ‘Banana Skin Shoes’, he sings “It’s hard for me to say it but I’m ready to confess/I’ve known for a while now that I haven’t been my best.” Whether that’s just within the confines of a song, or …
Track: Oh Wonder – Oceansize
Oh Wonder have thrown themselves creatively into these lockdown times, with their acclaimed ‘Home Tapes’ project. Oceansize is the fourth of the songs to be written, recorded and released under lockdown, and is , say the band, a direct reflection “on lockdown, and our consequent yearning for freedom, space and nature.” Oh Wonder are no …