Electronic
Album Review: Of Montreal – Innocence Reaches
Kevin Barnes has played many roles in his nearly 20 year music career. There was the folksy pop guy, the jilted lover, the struggling husband and father, the party monster, the transvestite hooker, the avante garde composer, and the rock and roll warrior. But the role Barnes plays best is Kevin Barnes. The guy that’s …
Track: Gold Panda reveals John Roberts remix of Chiba Nights
If you enjoyed Good Luck and Do your best, Gold Panda’s recent album, as much as we did on its release earlier in the year from City Slang, then he’s just revealed an extra little treat in the shape of a remix of the standout track Chiba Nights, reworked by US producer John Roberts. “I’m …
Bel reveals new video for Melacholia track
Australian singer songwriter Bel has revealed a new video to accompany her debut single, which drops this Friday, 19th August. The Melbourne 20 year old describes the track, Melancholia, as providing “an introspective depiction of what it’s like to be inside my head. Lyrically, it’s rich in raw emotion and personal truth. Our minds can …
Not Forgotten: Vernon Elliott – Clangers: Original Television Music
Do you remember when a group of knitted pink miniature aardvarks to rocked your world? More action-packed than Bagpuss, cooler than Chorlton and the Wheelies, more psychedelic than Jamie and The Magic Torch and less mainstream than The Wombles, when it came to kids TV in my early youth, only the incomparable Danger Mouse rocked …
See: Scandroid releases lyric video for Empty Streets
Scandroid, aka Detroit based artist/producer Klayton, best know for his project Celldweller, has released a lyric video for Empty Streets, taken from his as yet untitled album, due out in mid-November. Described as a 80s/NewRetroWave/Synthwave/Cyberpunk inspired project set 500 years in the future in Neo Tokyo, Scandroid deals in Industrial sounds, with propelling beats and …
See: Hannah Peel releases new video for All That Matters
Here at backseat mafia towers, we’re eagerly anticipating the arrival of Magnetic North frontwoman Hannah Peel’s second solo record, Awake But Always Dreaming, which drops on 9th September. Ahead of the release Peel has released a new video for the lead single, All that Matters. Talking of the track, Peel says “I wrote this song …
Track: Adam Betts – Drumbones
Sometime member of Brian Eno’s approved Three Trapped Tigers, London based Adam Betts has heralded his debut album Colossal Squid, out 25th November on Blood and Biscuits by releasing its opening track – Drumbones. The album was written, developed and originally recorded over a the course of a few months, taking bits from the likes …
Meet: Gioumourtzina’s ‘Blakk Metall’: An Interview
Gioumourtzina is a two-piece synth-heavy duo out of Thessaloniki, Greece. Their sound is a unique one, as it mixes and matches pieces of early 80s alternative, electronic, and Gothic vibes into a very modern sound. There’s a little Depeche Mode here, some Echo and the Bunnymen there, add a pinch of New Order and some …
Album Review: Lou Rhodes – Theyesandeye
It’s been ten years since Lamb released their stirring electronic anthem ‘Gorecki’. Their dark, genre bending sound put them up with their contemporaries of the time; Massive Attack, Tricky, and Portishead. It was very much the sound of the time, but they did it differently and created something above and beyond what anyone else was …
Album Review: MSTRKRFT – Operator
So let me start out by saying I’m not an aficionado when it comes to electronica. I’m really just an outsider looking in that finds himself drawn to the beats and noisy synths. I feel EDM, techno, and house music like I feel jazz, hip hop, and classical music; that is to say I feel …