Electronic
EP: !!! (chk chk chk)- Certified Heavy Kats
The new EP by the leviathans of the dance-punk genre, arriving nearly two decades after their self-titled debut, vents as much creativity and unrelenting magnetism to dance (or nod the head), as their greatest releases. The majority refines and perfects the band’s energetic musical trademarks embraced upon the hugely popular 2013 LP Thriller. Lead single …
Track: Jeremy Gara Shares New Track ‘Wraith’ And Second Solo Album News
Today Jeremy Gara, drummer of Arcade Fire, announces his second solo album ‘Passerine Finale’ to be released 11th September on Invada Records. To celebrate the announcement Jeremy has shared the track “wraith” taken Exploding out the speakers in a swirling wall of noise ‘Wraith’ is a somewhat creepy, almost uncomfortable, collection of thoughts and feelings painting in a kaleidoscope of sound. Check …
See: Rival Consoles release video for the bittersweet beauty of ‘Sudden Awareness of Now’
Taken from his forthcoming six-track album Articulation, out on 31st July via Erased Tapes, Rival Consoles – aka Ryan Lee West has released a new track, the album closer ‘Sudden Awareness of Now’. Of the track, Lee says This is a song I created late at night, I wanted to make something full of momentum …
Premiere: Jack Cheshire – Miradors
Taken from his forthcoming album ‘Fractal Future Plays’ out 27/11/2020 via Loose Tongue Records, Miradors is the new single from Jack Cheshire, out on 21st August, and we’re absolutely delighted to premiere it here today on Backseat Mafia. The title of the song comes from Malcolm Lowrys 1947 novel ‘Under the Volcano’, when the books protagonist Geoffrey …
Track: James Blake – Are you even real?
With co-writes from Starrah, Ali Tamposi alongside himself, Are you even real?, the new track from Grammy award winning singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer James Blake certainly has the buzz. Written as part of Apple’s global ‘Behind the Mac’ campaign it comes off the back of Blakes recent fourth album ‘Assume Form’, which has currently clocked …
Track: Monograms – American Dreamz
Monograms, aka Brooklyn based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Jacobs, is gearing up for the release of his new album ‘Only a Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever’, out on PaperCup Music on July 31st, and ahead of it he’s released a new single from it American Dreamz. Of the album, written in these Covid times and …
Track: sir Was x Casper Clausen – Flyder
‘Flyder’, is the new single from the Gothenburg-based artist/producer, sir Was – real name, Joel Wästberg – and Casper Clausen, the singer of experimental Danish post-rockers, Efterklang. ‘Flyder’ started as a small sketch around the time when Joel went to join the Efterklang recordings in Copenhagen last year. After bouncing the song back and forth, between Gothenberg and Casper’s studio in Almada (looking across the …
Album Review: Mike Shinoda – Dropped Frames, Vol. 1
It’s a brand new innovative solo project from Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda; an album written with the help of his Twitch live-streaming community. What could be more lockdown, right? Released through Kenji Koboyashi Productions, Dropped Frames, Vol. 1 is an eclectic amalgamation of any and every genre you could think of, which is to be …
Track: The Nix – All is Well (Feat. Laetitia Sadier)
Out now on Moshi Moshi Records is ‘Until Now, All is Well’ by Nix, a collective of musicians, headed by Nick McCarthy, formerly of Franz Ferdinand. ‘All is Well’ is based around an original composition by Mal Waldron and features on vocals, Laetitia Sadier, founding member of Avant-Pop band, Stereolab. The track itself, has a dub-reggae edge, …
See: Dead Naked Hippies reveal new video for Eyes Wide (Night Time Version)
Dead Naked Hippies are a trio who’ve been active on the Leeds DIY punk scene since 2016. During 2020 they’ve needed to find creative new ways to work due to the limitations of lockdown, and they’ve subsequently reworked one of their previous songs, with moody electronics replacing the previous live instrument parts. The resulting track “Eyes Wide …