Indie
ALBUM REVIEW: Pet Grotesque brings the late summer nights with ‘Female Synth Player’
PET GROTESQUE is the solo project of Calum Armstrong, who can also be found in the excellent Tiña (who released their debut album, Positive Mental Health, last week). Channeling King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in terms of work ethic, Calum Armstrong has just released another album within the space of just a week under …
NEWS: Kill Rock Stars sign Japanese garage-psychesters TEKE::TEKE – hear two tracks
RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and Bo Ningen, down through the garage-rawk of Guitar Wolf and the dreamy, trippy-hippy psych of Ghost, new and deeper appreciations of how to wield and …
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 …
Premiere: First listen to The Yorks new EP, Purple Sunsets
Los Angeles based The Yorks are preparing for the release of their latest EP, Purple Sunsets and and we’re delighted to premiere the EP as a whole right here on Backseat Mafia today. Moving to more of a solo project with Jorge Rodrigo Azanza at the help, The Yorks take something of a lo-Fi indie …
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 …
SEE: Le Volume Courbe take on Daniel Johnston’s ‘Mind Contorted’ with Terry Hall and Noel G
LE VOLUME COURBE, aka Charlotte Marionneau: if you love a certain cultish, Gallic erudition in your indie songwriting, you have to say it’s more than a little great to see her back. Following a brush with mortality last year, the urge to release music again for herself “became like a vital thing”. (She’s been a …
TRACK: Holy Drone – ‘Fibres’: a lovely Cheshire shoegaze drop
HOLY DRONE, Warrington’s lovely purveyors of shoegaze, are back with their first new material since last year’s blissful heathaze shimmer, “Northern Fire”. They’ve spent the past year working on new material and, like the rest of us, navigating the new weird we find ourselves in. The first fruits of those months of writing are with …
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 …
News: New cultural project Solidarity Tapes release ‘Vol 1: End The Hostile Environment’ featuring Goat Girl, PVA, Big Joanie, Dan Carey andmore
From the newly created DIY project Solidarity Tapes comes their first release with Vol 1: End The Hostile Environment featuring an eclectic, heavyweight cast of some of the most exciting acts in the UK today including Goat Girl, PVA, Glows, Big Joanie, the head-honcho of Speedy Wunderground and the most in-demand producer at the moment, …