indie rock
Premiere: Kúlu release new live session video for Seeking
Danish indie rock band Kúlu released their latest single Seeking last month, proving again their able to blend in echoey, shoegaze guitars and dark, melancholic melodies together in the way that the likes of Editors do. Only, somehow Kúlu seem to be able to leave you feeling uplifted as well, and we can’t work out …
Track: Permanent Collection -Point of no return
Permanent Collection, the moniker of Jason Hendardy, has released a new single -Point of no return, taken from his forthcoming album Nothing Good Is Normal, our in June 19th via Strangeway Studio. It’s a follow up to his Blurring the Lines track that we loved here on Backseat Mafia. harking back to the likes of …
Premiere: Joell Jordi – Living For Tonight
Taken from his debut EP, due out later this month, we’re delighted to premiere ‘Living for Tonight’ by 26 year old Manchester singer-songwriter Joell Jordi. Of the track, he says “Living for Tonight is what it says on the tin, it was written about living life for the moment and had a thought behind it …
EP: Destrends – Wastelands
Destrends have produced an explosive post-punk EP that recalls an eighties Australian post-punk mentality epitomised by bands like Midnight Oil and Spy Vs Spy: vibrant, passionate and intelligent, danceable and thrashy. Added to this is a level of theatricality and attitude leavened by an inherent larrikin sense of humour. Opening track, ‘Missing People’ sets out …
Video: The Brave Faces – In The Dark
We were highly impressed by The Brave Faces single ‘In the Dark’ which we were honoured to premiere recently, and it great to be able to see the new video for the track. It is fittingly haunting, psychedelic and evocative video and a perfect accompaniment to the dream pop/shoegaze timbre of the song: You can …
Track: Eskobar – When Your Heroes Fall
There is no doubt that Sweden’s Eskobar have a genetic code that can be clinically traced back to the sounds of Manchester in the nineties – The Stone Roses, The Charlatans and even the rave culture. And with other bands like DMA’s forging the way in a completely original Mancunian-esque baggy revival, this is no …
Track: DMA’s – The Glow
Australia’s DMA’s continue to forge a bright and exhilarating path of their own with the release of the third single – ‘The Glow’ – off their forthcoming album ‘The Glow’, now due out on 10 July 2020. ‘The Glow’ is classic up-tempo indie rock with the hallmark euphoric stadium-perfected choruses, anthemic and pulsating yet underpinned …
Track: Ascendo – Something Sweeter EP
Wakefield indie rock quartet Ascendo hit the ground running with their debut release Something Sweeter – a two track EP featuring tracks Pixie Dust and Pink Gin and Lemonade. The former – Pixie Dust takes the spirit of that wave of Sheffield bands – the Arctic Monkeys, Milburn and the like with this jagged singalonga-indie …
See: Kidbug release new video for Together
Fusing together members of Eerie Wanda, Dumb Numbers, Best Coast and Shearwater, Kidbug make this almost heavy Grunge/alt-rock. Buzzsaw guitar lines permeate the latest single to be taken from their upcoming Self-titled debut album, out on May 22 via Joyful Noise, as it moves sedately along. Over the top there’s these ethereal harmonised vocals that …
See: Young Knives Reveal new video for Sheep Tick
Young Knives, brothers Henry Dartnall and The House of Lords have announced their fifth album, and first in seven years since 2013’s acclaimed Sick Octave., and ahead of it they’ve released a video for lead single Sheep Trick. A mixture of synth-pop and indie rock along with elements of post-punk and krautrock, it’s almost chanted …