Electronic
Premiere: Keep Calm Stay Home reveal the lush electronica of ‘A Theme For…’
Keep Calm Stay Home is the current moniker of London based composer Oli Morgan, a man who’s worked with the likes of Seal, Bastille, Gregory Porter, Princess Nokia, Venom and more as a mastering specialist at Abbey Road studios. Lockdown left Morgan with plenty of time to express his own creativity, and his first EP, …
Premiere: Filippin releases the beautiful alt-pop of Disgrace feat. Runah
“There are no rules. This is how DISGRACE is born. Go against the rules or ignore the rules to innovate”, so says 21 year old Italian DJ / composer / producer Filippin (real name Lorenzo Filippin) of his new track Disgrace, which we’re delighted to be able to premiere on Backseat Mafia this morning. He’s …
Track: Minimal Animal reveals the heart-stopping new single, Saturated
We’ve long been in thrall of Minimal Animal, back to his Sheffield days at the head of Screaming Maldini, who we at the time thought were the best band on the planet. He’s now in Brixton, and has just released his first single of 2021 in the shape of Saturated. It’s timely given these strange …
Rising: We meet LANKS, and listen to his recent single, Cold Blood
After we heard the new song from NYC via Melbourne artist LANKS, Cold Blood, we knew we had something rather special on our hands. Glittering electro, soaked in melancholy and with this strumming guitar adding to the realism were enough to draw us in. It was these impossibly catchy melodies, as well as his soaring …
News: The Black Queen celebrate the fifth anniversary of their debut album with limited edition vinyl reissues and deluxe digital edition
American supergroup The Black Queen are set to mark the five year anniversary of their cult classic debut album, ‘Fever Daydream’, with the release of 2 vinyl reissues and a deluxe digital edition. “In 20 years of making albums, there are a few that stand out as being really special. They felt special when they were …
ALBUM REVIEW: Robbie & Mona – ‘EW’
The album is a hypnotic work of dreamscape electronica that prompts comparisons with The XX and James Blake, now while those may be more mainstream artists, the ambition of this partnership cannot be overstated and the ability to deliver on this level is both mesmeric and entrancing
Album Review: Kieran Mahon – Eternal Return
The latest from St. Leonard’s prime manipulator of drones, loops, and echoes uses adeptly generated, cyclical synth-komische to delve into Mahon’s newly realised perspective upon the notion of ‘Eternal Return’ and everlasting life. Mahon elucidates on this realisation, saying that rather than “seeing the prospect of living life over, unknowingly, on an endless loop as …
Premiere: Burial Grid reveal new video for Baiting The Undertow
Burial Grid, the Massachusetts based electronic-psych producer otherwise known as Adam Kodak, has today released his new fourth full-length album, We’ve Come for Your Flesh, out via Spinal Constellation Records. We’re delighted to be able to premiere the accompanying new video for the track Bairting The Undertow right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. The …
Track: Mouse On Mars – Artificial Authentic
Mouse On Mars, the visionary electronic duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, have shared their new single ‘Artificial Authentic’, taken from their forthcoming album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence), out Feb. 26th via Thrill Jockey Created through the development of new technologies that warp the text and voices of Chude-Sokei and DJ/producer and programmer Yağmur Uçkunkaya into playable instruments. The Duo have …
Track: Bicep release new single, Sundial
One what like a ‘Sundial’ does, Bicep’s final single before the release of their forthcoming album ‘Isles’, creates a time and a place for you. Belfast-born duo Bicep (Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson) released ‘Sundial’, which stands apart from the rest of their discography due to its traditional Indian influence and the simplicity of its making. The track features samples …