indie tracks
See: Son Lux reveal new video for track ‘Slowly’
Taken from their forthcoming fifth album ‘Brighter Wounds’, out on February 9th on City Slang, Son Lux have shared a second track called ‘Slowly’. It’s a delicate, slightly off-kilter track where synths and drums seems to move in different orbits, and Ryan Lott’s feathery, beautiful but fragile vocal seems to half draw things together but …
Track: Amber Bugs – David Dimbleby
Noisy London three piece Amber had a motto upon entering the recording studio. “If it can’t be done live, it can’t be done”. It was from this motto that their latest single ‘David Dimbleby’ was born. As lead singer Ben Kelly explains: “There’s only three of us and we want to sound not just big, …
Track: Franz Ferdinand – ‘Feel The Love Go’
Franz Ferdinand take us dancing into 2018 with synth-driven new single ‘Feel The Love Go’. It’s been a busy few days for Franz Ferdinand. If outperforming politicians on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday – when they appeared as the musical guests – wasn’t enough, they have now shared the latest track to be taken …
Track: Ezra Furman – Suck the blood from my wound, plus UK tour dates
His new album ‘Transangelic Exodus’ is still a month away from its 9th February release on Bella Union, and already Ezra Furman has released a couple of singles from it in the shape of ‘Driving Down To L.A.’ and ‘Love You So Bad’. Add to that a third now with ‘Suck the blood from my …
Track: Superchunk – Erasure, plus new album news and UK/European tour dates
Out on February 16th on the ever brilliant Merge Records, What a time to be alive is the new album from legendary alt rockers Superchunk. It features a host of guest backing vocalists including Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit), Skylar Gudasz, and David Bazan “Part of that was wanting a feeling of community,” …
Track: Kaves – 27
Norwich alt rockers Kaves have just released their debut single ’27’, an infectious slice of indie rock, which the band claim (rightly so) has a twist of Killers esque disco. It shuffles through at the beginning with this Monkeys like guitar following the vocal around. It soon builds up though, and if you can keep …
Track: Mélissa Laveaux – Nan Fon Bwa
Inspired by a trip to her parents to her parents homeland Haiti, Nan Fon Bwa is a new song taken from Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mélissa Laveaux. It comes from a digital EP which drops on 2nd February and is about celebration and is a reworking of Frantz Casséus’ original composition. The EP is to …
Track: Typhoon – Darker, plus UK tour dates
Taken from Portland indie rockers Typhoon’s new album Offerings, out on January 12th via Roll Call Records, Darker is a poetic, almost desperate cry for help. Over the top of this murky slice of indie rock, singer Kyle Morton almost pleads with the listener for some kind of understanding and if he’s drowning in this …
Track: Go! Team – All The Way Live
We here at backseat mafia are at the point where we actually cannot wait for SEMICIRCLE, the new album from Go! Team that drops on January 18th via Memphis Industries. More so now they’ve followed the frankly fantastic Semicircle Song and Mayday tracks already released from the record with an equally brilliant effort, All the …
EP: The Veldt – ‘Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose’
Just prior to heading out on tour with Modern English (sadly no European dates) shoegaze pioneers THe Veldt have released their new EP ‘Thanks to the Moth and Areanna Rose’ via U.S. label sonaBLAST! Records. At its core, the band are identical twins Daniel Chavis (vocals, guitar) and Danny Chavis (guitar), along with Hayato Nakao …