Indie
Album Review: SAD13 – Haunted Painting
To contrast Sadie Dupuis’ work as SAD13 with her work with Speedy Ortiz feels unfair, yet inevitable as they are essentially two different distillations of her own personality. The former is more Dupuis as Dupuis, for sure ,but even the band work was sprung out of her own ideas and therefore could be reasonably approached …
TRACK: The Native – ‘Break Away’: South West indie risers’ second laments Brexit
PLYMOUTH’S The Native are on an upward curve: they’ve been building a real reputation down in the South West, getting themselves a real fanbase and a name as purveyors of a certain brand of soaring indie guitar rock. Back in August they debuted with the power melodiousness of “Chasing Highs”, written in response to a …
SEE: The video for Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’, their first in five years
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are primed and ready on the starting grid for the release of their new album, Getting Into Knives, on October 23rd; and for the first time in five years they’ve stepped out in front of a rolling camera and put together a video for the recently released single, “Get Famous”. We dived into “Get …
Album Review: Wilding – The Death of Foley’s Mall
Wilding – the nom de plume of Justin Wilding Stokes – premiered the single ‘Swipe Right’ here on Backseat Mafia last month and it was quite a breath of fresh air. I observed it was a highly enjoyable marriage of pure pop bounce mixed with an intelligent and off-kilter lyrics. Wilding just released his new …
See: Step Into The Murky World Of Legss with new visuals for ‘On Killing A Swan Blues’
Following on from their debut EP, Legss have shared the video of ‘On Killing A Swan Blues’ taken off of their sophomore EP ‘Doomswayers’. Hailing from London emerging from the cauldron of new music and one of the finest cultural institutions being Windmill, Legss latest offering is ramshackled, murky post-punk. Visceral and angst-ridden, ‘On Killing …
TRACK: Yo La Tengo share the warm hush of ‘Bleeding’ from their new EP
AWW, YO LA TENGO, when they’re on (sleepy) fire, you just have to adore them; and they really are, right now. They’ve just shared a second song from their forthcoming Sleepless Night EP, to follow their blissful cover of The Byrds’ majestic “Wasn’t Born To Follow”. “Bleeding” is the only original on the single-sided five-tracker, …
Track: Misty Coast release the psych-pop of ‘In a Million Years’
Misty Coast, aka Linn Frøkedal and Richard Myklebust have recently released a new track, In A MIllion Years ahead of their new album When I Fall From The Sky. On the song, Linn says “the song represents a recurring theme on the album, and it lingers in thoughts about whether we should choose to ignore …
SEE: Tune-Yards’ ‘nowhere, man’: brilliantly freakish stop-motion and a rousing groove
MERRILL GARBUS and Nate Brenner’s excellent, genre-busting, rousing Tune-Yards have released a brilliantly freakish stop-motion animation for their new track, “nowhere, man”. It’s bright, groovy, offbeat, spacious, eccentrically paced, passionately sung: in short, everything you need a Tune-Yards’ tune to be. And that accompanying video … Merrill and Nate are caught giving it the Chaplin …
Track: Pom Poko – ‘My Candidacy’
THE ART-PUNK outfit Pom Poko, who returned earlier this year following their 2019 debu, have released a second single from their upcoming album in the shape of “My Candidacy”. The track features the stuttering, untamed shards of noise from guitarist Martin Tonne, and an equally hectic but hypnotic, diverse rhythmic display from drummer Ola Djupvik. …
Album Review: Hen Ogledd – Free Humans
Once again they come from the north-Hen Ogledd, time travelling space pop troubadours with music of weird and wonky magic. Originally the brainchild of folk experimentalist/indie anti-hero Richard Dawson and avant harpist Rhodri Davies, the addition of Dawn Bothwell in 2016 and then Sally Pilkington has sparked the collective to channel their inner wonk and …