Electronic
Track: Lyfe Indoors – Put you down
Mysterious (or at least anonymous) bedroom pop project Lyfe Indoors has return with a new single, Put you down. Operating since 2014 and spending long Summer’s indoors writing (hence the name), it’s taken from an album to be released later in the year. Of the track Lyfe Indoors says “Did I miss the chance, for some …
Track: Attilio Novellino- Strängar 1
June 2020 sees Italian musician Attilio Novellino’s first release on Forwind simply titled Strängar (Strings) features four tracks of piano variants, electronics and electroacoustics. “Contemporary electronic music seems to need extra-musical meanings and a specific concept to be listened to. This can be claustrophobic at times. For this record I was direct, talking only about …
Droppin’ Knowledge: New Single from Equiknoxx’s Time Cow featuring Birmingham MC RTKal
Time Cow, of the electro-reggae-dancehall outfit Equiknoxx, releases a new video single, Elephant Man, featuring the Birmingham emcee, and frequent Equiknoxx collaborator, RTKal. The video, which is a tribute to eccentric dancehall star Elephant Man, is a minimalist take on the genre, with percolating, sinister percussion, waves of synthesizer and a jumble of jump cuts …
Track: Sophie Hunger – Everything is Good
Everything is Good is the name of a David Shrigley design, owned by Swiss multi-lingual singer-songwriter Sophie Hunger. It’s also the name of her new single, taken from her forthcoming album Halluzinationen, out on August 28th via Caroline International. Drawing comparisons to the likes of Sharon Van Etten is understandable when you listen to Everything …
See: Minimal Animal release new video for Don’t Even
Former Screaming Maldini main man Nick Cox is always welcome here on Backseat Mafia. Until their untimely split in 2014, they were almost universally accepted amongst our writers as our favourite band, which made it virtually unimaginable why they were everyone’s favourite band. He’s carried on making music in various ways and guises since, and …
Album Review: Nick Hakim: – Will this make me good
Brooklyn based Nick Hakim asks the questions with his new album, principally that. Will this record, this piece of art make him good. As a person or as an artist is less clear, but it’s one of many he asks as he struggles to comprehend the world around him. For much of the build up …
See: No Joy release new video for Birthmark
Jasamine White-Gluz in her No Joy guise has announced a first fill-length album in 5 years, Motherhood, is to be released on August 21st via Joyful Noise, and she’s heralded the return with a single ‘Birthmark’ along with its video, available for streaming right now. Of the track, Jasamine says “In the studio I wanted …
Track: The Streets – Where the F*&k did April Go
Mike Skinner, aka The Streets has just released the b-side to his new single ‘Call my phone thinking I’m doing nothing better’ which featured Tame Impala. Called ‘Where the f*&k did April go’, the track is a bonus that won’t feature on his forthcoming mixtape, but is available to stream now. Speaking about the new …
Premiere: Unruly Girls – Black Love (Video)
Backseat Mafia is very honoured to premiere today the phenomenal new video by Italian band Unruly Girls. ‘Black Love’ is off their recently released album ‘Epidemic’ – an album I rated a 9.1 out of 10 – and is a typically unhinged, anarchic and thundering production, yet is antithetically tinged with a sense of poignancy. …
News: Last Night From Glasgow to release fundraising compilation
Not-for-profit label Last Night From Glasgow have launched The Isolation Sessions, a compilation to be released on vinyl, CD and digital download in order to raise funds for their beloved Glasgow venues and record shops affected by the Covid-19 lockdown.Featuring artists from the label’s roster covering their favourite past releases from LNFG acts. The project …