Cardiff
ALBUM REVIEW: Private World – ‘Aleph’: a fine 80s’-informed debut
THE much-heralded Cardiff outfit Private World have just released their debut album, Aleph, on Dais Records. They embrace the 1980s’ soundscape of new romantic folklore such as Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and early Talk Talk. As lead single “Blue Spirit” suggested, this is a band which is keen to share a specific sound that will …
SEE: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard: ‘Double Denim Hop’: a trash-glam cracker with its thumbs in its front pockets
OK, what you need to know about breaking Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard is: they’re a lot of glam-trash fun, with a way with a solid, twelve gold bars boogie that sits right on your hips and sticks its thumbs in your johnny pockets. They’ve shared the video for “Double Denim Hop”, a neon-framed infomercial …
Premiere: Omar Addis – Easy
21 year old Cardiff producer / songwriter Omar Addis releases his new single ‘Easy’ on 29th June, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. Of the track, Omar told us “Easy is a tune that I have been working on for almost two years now. It started off sounding …
See: Panic Shack share new single and video ‘Jim Jits-You’
Cardiff’s Panic Shack return today with ‘Jiu Jits-You‘, the ascendant quintet’s second single and the follow-on to February’s incendiary debut ‘Who’s Got My Lighter?‘. Once again recorded by Tom Rees of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard at Rat Trap Studios, ‘Jiu Jits-You’ is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it slice of elastic punk rooted in unwelcome advances and how to nip them in the bud. One of the …
Track: Clwb Fuzz – No Heaven
Cool and assured with just a hint of delicious malevolence, ‘No Heaven’, the new single from Welsh band Clwb Fuzz is an absolute sonic delight. If a reference is needed, there is a Bad Seeds insouciance to the music, a dash of Mazzy Star and Sonic Youth and a quiet/loud ethic that The Jesus and …
Premiere: Watch the new video from ¡Que Asco! for ‘Sharkipelago’
Cardiff art-rock trio Que Asco are about to release a new single ‘Sharkipelago’, out digitally on October 4th, and we’re delighted to be premiering the accompanying video here on Backseat Mafia today. It’s taken from their debut album Reaper, out on Maiden Voyage Records Switching endlessly and inventively between wiry aggression and slacker indie rock, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Gulp – All Good Wishes
Gulp are on a journey, a state of perpetual transition. The band make mini Kraut-pop epics, informed equally by the sun flares of the Californian desert and the drizzle of pure, sweet Scottish rain and northern light. Debut LP Season Sun was a home-grown delight, a ramshackle, endlessly inventive selection of dreamy psychedelic nuggets to watch …
Live Review: Fall Out Boy + Support, Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 28.03.2018 plus Gallery
Getting to the top wasn’t easy for Fall Out Boy, going on hiatus in 2009 was probably the best thing they could’ve done as a band. Each member got to discover who they were individually, after growing up within the public eye as one unit. They returned to the scene again in 2013 full of …
Say Psych: Track: Boy Azooga – Loner Boogie
Cardiff’s Boy Azooga are a musical mystery tour comprised of Davey Newington, Daf Davies, Dylan Morgan and Sam Barnes. This week they announced details of the release of their debut LP 1,2 Kung Fu! on Heavenly Recordings on 8th June 2018 and alongside they have thrust forth the video to ‘Loner Boogie’, an infectious swampy-fuzz …
Meet: The Cradles, and listen to their track Ideal Girl
We’ve been rather taken with The Cradles fantastic recent single, Ideal Girl – which mixes up bits of the Kinks, splashes a bucket of mersey, a touch of psych and some good old fashioned indie rock over things, and makes something which must be one of the records of the year thus far. We got …