Indie
Track: Guided by Voices release new single, Crash at Lake Placebo
Ahead of the release of their latest album ‘Styles We Paid For’, Guided By Voices have released their latest single. Crash At Lake Placebo. Despite the lockdown restrictions, GBV found a way, the members recording in five different states to bring together the bands third album of 2020. Crash At Lake Placebo is the sort …
SEE: llawgne – ‘Reverie Neverending’: welcome the Gothenburg ‘gaze
LLAWGNE is the musical guising mask of Mathias Engwall, an artist working out of Gothenburg with an ear for the heady rush of dreampop and shoegaze. He’s learnt his trade over at the other side of the soundproof glass, producing, mixing and mastering – but he’s all set to release an album for US indie …
Track: Thrillhouse – The Tin Man
The enigmatic and slightly mysterious Thrillhouse continue to release fantastically innovative and highly distinctive music from their lair in Brighton. Newest single, ‘The Tin Man’, has a driving, funky pace with a chorus of kids’ voices cheering in the background and a blistering wild saxophone solo. And, of course, ladles full of melody. This band …
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 …
PREMIERE: See Daisy Coburn’s ‘Fire’: A flamin’ hot tune from new Austerity signing
BRIGHTON’S Austerity Records, the up and coming label home already to the dark-edged dream pop stylings of the lovely Winter Gardens, is pleased to announce another worthy addition to its roster: London solo artiste Daisy Coburn. Today at Backseat Mafia we’re premiering the flaming first fruits of this new partnership, with the video for the …
TRACK: Hear the pastoral loveliness of Louis Philippe & The Night Mail’s ‘The Mighty Owl’; live-streamed performance announced!
MASTERFUL musician Louis Philippe, él Records aesthete and scribe of the beautiful game, has been away far, far too long; which is why here at Backseat Mafia we’re damn excited for the release of his second album of the year, in cahoots with The Night Mail, Thunderclouds – not least because we gets to hear …
Meet: We talk to Stephen Lawson of Bluenose B, listen to their new single ‘Another Place’
Out on December 11th is the new single from indie rockers Bluenose B, titled ‘Another Place’. The band, formed way back in the 80s by songwriter Stephen Lawson, have gone through various line-up changes and crossed through different genres in their lifetime, but this feels like a new start for the band, albeit with a …
News: Z2 Comics and Graham Coxon present a new graphic novel & Soundtrack ‘Superstate’
Z2 Comics today announces Superstate, an all-new high concept vision of the future. Devised by British musician and artist Graham Coxon (Blur) and featuring the best of 15 graphic artists, Superstate is a compendium graphic novel featuring a new original fully-illustrated score from Coxon. This unique music and comic book pairing also features cover artwork by Coxon himself and …
SEE: The trippy visuals for Lost Horizons’ ‘One For Regret’; London date announced
LOST HORIZONS, the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, of former 4AD labelmates Dif Juz, are set to release their new ultra-collaborative double album, In Quiet Moments, on which every track features guest vocalists, in instalments across this winter; and they’ve just dropped the green-screen video for a track taken from part the …
SEE: Firestations – ‘Small Island’
IN AN attempt to maintain focus on their bands in a time when gigs are not possible, Lost Map is launching the Automatic Tendencies initiative, a periodic release of EP collections of alternative versions of previously released tracks, as well as remixes by other artists in their roster. There will be three releases of this …