electronic tracks
Track: Karl Bartos – I’m the message (Matthew Herbert remix)
Karl Bartos knew his place and so did everyone else it seemed. Second from the left in the most influential band in the world, Kraftwerk. And there he remained, from 1975 till 1990, co-writing some of their iconic hits – The Model, Computer Love. You might have thought that would set him up for a …
Track: We Are Temporary – Who’s going to love me now?
“I feel left out by all of the love around. / What absorbs me, holds me in?” questions Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, aka We Are Temporary in his new single, Who’s going to love me now? Written while separated from his wife, it’s a raw and almost desperate song. Taken from his debut album Crossing Over, …
Track: Essaie Pas – Retox, plus album news
What happens when you arrive back off a years worth of touring. Well, if your Montreal duo Essaie Pas, aka Marie Davidson and Pierre Guerineau, it coincided with eviction from their home and, separately, rehearsal space. Moving to a desolate industrial complex in the height of winter, they pair ran around corridors playing old acid …
Track: TEEN – Tokyo
Ahead of the release of their third album, Love Yes, out on Carpark Records on February 19th, TEEN evoke the spirit of The Human League, drag it into 2016, and sprinkle it with ideas of sexuality and spirituality with a new single, Tokyo. Described lead singer and multi-instrumentalist Teeny Lieberson as being about “ a …
Track: Three Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
It might have taken a while, five years to be exact, but London trio Three Trapped Tigers are back with a follow up to their debut album ‘Route one or die’. Titled ‘Silent Earthling’, the bands new album is due out on April 1st via Superball Music. Talking of the bands evolution, guitarist/keyboard player Matt …
Track: Wild Palms – Temper Gold
Things are getting busy with Wild Palms following their mammoth five year hiatus. A second single, Temper Gold, comes out through One Little India on 4th March, produced by Liam Howe (Lana Del Rey, FKA Twigs) and the band’s bassist Gareth Jones. It eases its way in, stripped back with these tentative synth lines just …
Track: Wildhart – Fantasy
It’s been a bit of a wait for those people who loved Gothenburg trio Wildhart’s debut single ‘Stuck in a Second’, release petty much exactly a year ago. But now their back with a refined sound (one that’s been soaked in fellow countrymen Niki & the Dove and Little Dragon and a new single Fantasy, …
Track: Web Sheldon – Ranch House On A Hill
Sheffield born singer-songwriter Web Sheldon has paid his dues. Now London based, he has spent the last few years playing pubs and smaller venues, both on his own, and in a brief stint with former band Bilame. Last year he put his DJing skills to the test, with a guest-mix for us here at Backseat …
Track: Bibio – Feeling, plus new album news
Stephen Wilkinson, aka Bibio is preparing to release his seventh album ‘A mineral love’ on April 1st through the ever brilliant Warp Records. He’s gone to the trouble of explaining the album quite fully, so who are we to get in the way of his own thoughts and ideas. “This album celebrates the sacred and …
Track: Greg Hvnsen – What would you have me do
West Palm Beach’s Greg Hvnsen shares some of the undoubted sun with, well, just about everybody with his new track ‘What would you have me do’. Despite his slightly melancholic vocal, it trips along, sweetened by some rather lovely vocal harmonies as he asks What would you have me do?/Where would you have me go? …