Alt-Rock
Track: Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
Along with announcing a much anticipated UK live tour, Ghostpoet has also unveiled the haunting video to the title track of his critically latest album, “I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep” we reviewed here Now comes the beautifully strange and disorienting video, directed by Thomas James and featuring a funeral of sorts, from …
News: Kerbdog Announce The Re-issue Of Albums ‘Kerbdog’ And ‘On The Turn’
The cult Irish alt-rock quartet, Kerbdog, have today announced that they have teamed up with Hassle Hindsight, the recently launched re-issue label from the team at Hassle Records, to re-release their 1994 self-titled debut and its heralded 1997 follow-up “On The Turn”, their last full studio album before their first break-up in 1998. Despite a small handful of …
SEE: No Age – ‘Turned To String’: new video from low-slung noise rockers
SO LOOK, it’s not even news anymore: 2020, and the world is busy going to hell in a handcart. So just what is a scuzzily excellent, guitar-totin’ US alt.rock band to do? There ain’t no gigs; there no signing sessions. Hell now even the goddam pressing plants are backing up like bad plumbing. The answer? …
TRACK: Chappaqua Wrestling’s ‘Football’ shreds it like the Fannies
BORN into musical families, Brighton duo Chappaqua Wrestling – Charlie Woods and Jake Mac – knew exactly how to respond when the coronavirus swept a scheduled summer of festival appearances down the dumper: record, record, record. As appearances at fests such as The Great Escape and Truck Festival melted into infective impossibility, they cracked on …
TRACK: Magic Bronson are back and ‘Surfin’
LA’s scuzzed-up alt.pop duo Magic Bronson are back and “Surfin on your brainwaves” with the second single to be released ahead of their forthcoming LP. It’s a slice of West Coast psych goodness, coming at you in a wall of delay and bells and tremulous guitar, all MGMT’s leather-jacketed little bro. “It’s our time, it’s …
EP REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020’
CONNECTICUT’s foremost ragged, slacker squall-rockers Magik Markers have descended from their years-long recess and deigned to bless us with the benison of a new four-track, download-only EP for Drag City, Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020, their first release of any kind in five years. The band, Elisa Ambroglio, John Shaw and Pete Nolan, said: “The …
SEE: The Illness – ‘Phrases Redacted’: Silver Jews’ Bob lets the free association flow
THE ILLNESS are a collective of musicians who have been seeping towards our consciousness for a while. The band is drawn from musicians from the stable of York’s Sea Music label. Based at various location along that English longitudinal arc, down the years they have played with psych-pop cultist Kelley Stoltz, among many others. We …
EP REVIEW: The Ricos – ‘Spirit State’
PHILADELPHIA’S languid, lofi outfit The Ricos is the brainchild of artist Joseph (Joe) B. Purcell. The band rose from the ashes of Purcell’s past projects with the intention to provide fuzz-ridden indie-pop, on which Joe’s vision is fleshed out by multi-instrumentalist/producer Connor Wynne and local human drum machine Daniel Fisk-Kallish. And their first steps into …
Premiere: Atticus Reveal new video for ‘Tony’
We’re delighted to premiere the video for the new single ‘Tony’ from Irish alt-rockers Atticus right here on Backseat Mafia. The band went into a studio for the first time with this recording, something they say “is a step into a more focused direction for us, following a sound that has been teased in our …
Album Review: Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
We’ve long been fans of Obaro Ejimiwe, aka Ghostpoet and so we waited with baited breath for the Mercury-Music nominated artist to reveal his fifth album ‘I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep’, out this Friday 1st May via Play It Again Sam. Written and recorded in London and featuring more of the alt-rock …