indie tracks
Track: Southampton trio Mystic Peach share shoegazey grunge banger ‘Wanna Be My Daddy?’
RELEASED via Honeymooner Records, who are also known for being one of the premier promoters on the South Coast, with shows from the likes of black midi, Fontaines DC, Black Country, New Road and Fat White Family being just a handful of names to grace the Honeymooner stages, the newest single from the trio encapsulates …
Track: Bradford release new single ‘Down-Faced Doll’ ahead of first album in 30 years
In amongst the misery of 2020, some bright shoots of hope were provided for us here at Backseat Mafia by the reformation Of criminally overlooked 80s/90s indie band Bradford. Ahead of their comeback album next year ‘Bright Hours’, they’ve released a new single, Down-Faced Doll. Now consisting of ordinal members Ian H and Ewan Butler …
Track: Plastic Glass – Going Away
Sunderland based indie 4 piece Plastic Glass, have released a new track, ‘Going Away’ When asked specifically about the track, bassist Ben Richardson explained: “This song is technically a reincarnation of an old Plastic Glass track that I actually wrote the lyrics for, admittedly it wasn’t great. However, some of the ideas from that track …
Track: Low Hummer – Take Arms
Not content with blowing us away with their previous releases The Real Thing and Picture Bliss, Hull quintet Low Hummer have released their new single ‘Take Arms’ on Leeds’ Dance To The Radio records. While the band have long tackled themes of social isolation, manipulation and misinformation, ‘Take Arms’ lands on an day where the …
Track: The Anchoress – Show Your Face
The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) is set to release her second album ‘The Art of Losing’, on March 5th 2021 via Kscope. ‘Show Your Face’ is the first single to be taken from the album featuring guitar from Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield (who also sings a duet on the album) and drums from Sterling Campbell (David Bowie, Duran Duran). A disco …
Track: Blue Statue share video for track ‘So To Speak’
London noise-rock band Blue Statue have just dropped the video for new track ‘So to speak’ from their new double A-side single – ‘V.F. / So to speak’. Dreamy distorted guitars and lazy infectious vocals give this track a shoe-gaze feel. Propelled along with a fuzzy melodic guitar lines the guys have created another fantastic track in their unique …
Track: Exit Kid – Working Stiff
Documenting the trials and tribulations of life on the road, London’s Exit Kid harness their trademark grunge, Britpop and slacker-pop influences with blistering new cut ‘Working Stiff’, taken from the band’s forthcoming ‘Garden EP’ out November 27th. “I wrote ‘Working Stiff’ a few years ago and it has always been one of our favourite songs to play live”, details frontman Emre Türkmen. …
Track: Algiers release expanded reimagining of Cleveland (20/20)
Taken from their 2017 album ‘The Underside of Power’, Algiers have released a hugely expanded version (to 50 minutes no less). On the original, vocalist Franklin’s James Fisher names the black people killed by police or who died in extraordinarily suspicious ways and who’s deaths were explained away as ‘suicide’. In this new version, the …
Track: New London trio Regressive Left share debut single ‘Eternal Returns’
FORMED by Georgia Hardy of Spilt Milk alongside Will Crosby and Simon Tyrie, Regressive Left is a new outfit from the depths of London who’ve just released their debut single, “Eternal Returns”. Having only played their debut show last year with PVA, Scalping and Porridge Radio, the trio have wasted no time in getting into …
Track: Maxïmo Park – Baby, Sleep
Maxïmo Park have announced details of their forthcoming new album ‘Nature Always Wins’, that will see release on February 26, 2021 via Prolifica Inc. Alongside this news they have shared the new single ‘Baby, Sleep’. Frontman Paul Smith comments: “I’m so happy we were able to make this album during lockdown, as it’s been a challenging time for everyone. After almost …