EP premiere
Premiere: Stream Taylor Pearlstein’s stunning new EP Perfect Blue, out tomorrow
A couple of weeks back, we wrote about ‘The Difference’, the current single from Brooklyn’s Taylor Pearlstein, signalling the release of her new EP. The full thing is almost here in its full cinematic glory, Pearlstein’s knack for arrangement and storytelling prowess showing that she’s a cut above the rest when it comes to the …
Premiere: Stream Careful’s first new music in a decade, the ‘Promise/Practice’ EP
Back in June, Eric Lindley resumed releasing music as Careful after taking a hiatus from the project following 2014 album The world doesn’t end. His first new release since then picks up where he left off nine years ago as if no time had passed. Of course, a lot can happen in nearly a decade, …
Premiere: Stream Camp Bedford’s wonderful debut EP ‘So Often & So Sweet’ ahead of release tomorrow
You’ve got about 12 minutes, right? Good – you absolutely should take them to listen to this: a 3-song EP from Brooklyn trio Camp Bedford. You may have seen us raving about recent single ‘Jupiter’ at the beginning of March, but here’s the elevator pitch: fans of First Aid Kit, Wye Oak or The Staves …
PREMIERE: Grant Summerland unveils new EP ‘Unnatural History’
Last month, we premiered the lead track from Californian Grant Summerland (solo artist and leader of the live iteration Grant and the Summerlands), his first proper appearance in a few years after being sidelined by the pandemic – his debut album Bigfoot Museum was released in mid-March 2020 and immediately hit the skids. Not to …
PREMIERE: Sweden’s De Arma pivot to darkwave on intense new EP ‘Nightcall’
It says a lot about how long Swedish gothic rock band De Arma had been sitting on second album Strayed in Shadows (finally released last June after years in limbo) that they’ve rebounded from that pretty much immediately. Well, we call them ‘gothic rock’ but they’ve taken in everything from black metal to post-rock and …
Premiere: Mako Bron’s ‘cloudbites’ EP is an effervescent and glorious pop masterpiece, with a dark heart and uplifting melodies.
Mako Bron is the brainchild of one musician/producer Chris Brookman, and the single ‘Straight Down’ went to straight up to my top five Australian/New Zealand single releases for 2021. We at Backseat Mafia are therefore absolutely thrilled to be asked to premiere Mako Bron’s new EP, ‘cloudbites’, set for release on 3 January 2022. Brookman …
EP Premiere: Fair Visions – Modern Kids
We’ve got a midweek treat for you on the site today, in the form of New Yorker Ryan Work’s new EP. As Fair Visions, he released his debut EP A Way Out last August, and its follow-up displays impressive growth over little more than a year. Anyone who’s on board with contemporaries Nation of Language …