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Album Review: Mildlife – ‘Automatic’
Phase, the debut album by Australian band Mildlife, was a bonafide word of mouth discovery upon its release in early 2018. It’s mellow combination of groove propelled psychedelic jazz and disco, performed with a nod to Kosmische, Balearic, Scandinavian and Adriatic favours, caught a wave with a snowballing swell of support that united various scenes’ …
SEE: The Cribs’ ‘I Don’t Know Who I Am’: a glorious new tune with Lee Ranaldo
THE CRIBS continue their glorious return with new single “I Don’t Know Who I Am”, their second partnership with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, who delivered the astounding spoken word of fan favourite “Be Safe”. Quintessentially Cribs, spectacularly gripping riffage scores the track’s emotional narrative, before said riff implodes into a mauling noise rock jam. The …
SEE: Still Corners’ ‘The Last Exit’: Joshua Tree mystery preludes January album
STILL CORNERS have released the first song from their forthcoming fifth studio album, due for release on January 22nd, 2021. The title track “The Last Exit”, for which we’ve embedded the video below, is available now on all platforms. The musical project of Greg Hughes and Tessa Murphy, the group formed after a chance meeting …
See: Pillow Queens reveal new video for ‘Liffey’, plus UK and Ireland 2021 tour dates
Ahead of the release of their hotly anticipated album In Waiting, out this coming Friday, September 25th on their own, eponymous label, Pillow Queens have revealed a new video for the track Liffey, and a smattering of Ireland / UK tour dates for next year. Full of these unholy guitar screaches and wails, it has …
Track: Ben Burke – The Life I Left Behind
Up and coming Liverpool artist Ben Burke is set to release his newest single ‘The Life I Left Behind’ on 18thSeptember 2020, following the success of his previous singles ‘Leaving Tomorrow’ and ‘The Winds of Change’. After the split of his former band ‘The Stamp’, Ben has been working as a solo artist, using his …
NEWS: Cabbage announce 13-date UK tour for May
CABBAGE, Mossley’s marauding Mondaysesque gang of sprawling tunesters, have announced a tour, necessarily and unfortunately ‘rona-delayed, in support of their forthcoming album, Amanita Pantherina. The album’s out on Friday week, September 25th; but it’ll be almost a full year by the time the lads are unleashed from their Pennine fastness to run riot on stages …
ALBUM REVIEW: Sing Leaf – ‘Not Earth’: wide-eyed psych-indie-electro bliss
NAIVETY. It’s one of those words whose power has been denuded by an overuse of a certain conjugation of it. Much like ‘awesome’, the non sequitur of teens across the English-speaking world, naivety has come to mean fey, unwise, easily led. Sing Leaf, the recording pen-name of Toronto’s David Como, is naive in all the …
Tracks: Cherry Parke Share ‘Captain Bullseye’ & ‘All Around the Moon’ The Perfect Soundtrack For The Seaside Holiday
Seemingly heavily inspired by the sound of the 60’s and recorded by Kevin Basko (Foxygen, The Lemon Twigs), Cherry Parke the moniker of Will Wiggins hailing from New Jersey has dropped ‘Captain Bullseye’ and b-side ‘All Around the Moon’. ‘Captain Bullseye’ itself is a baroque pop, psychedelic-pop carnival reminiscent of Brian Wilson, Margo Guryan and …
ALBUM REVIEW: Yves Jarvis – ‘Sundry Rock Song Stock’: a thrilling solo quirk-psych vision
WHEN historians of future days come to write up the glowering all-round evils of 2020, they will, hopefully, take note of one glimmering shaft of light through the fog-plague; how great the sphere of quirky Canadian music has been this year. There’s been another sonically luxuriant missive from Montreal’s Braids in the shape of Shadow …
Premiere: Good Cop release new video for ‘Neighbourhood’
WE’RE delighted that, following on from Friday’s release of the album World Piss, Austrian punks Good Cop have released a new video for the track “Neighbourhood”; and we’re premiering it today right here on Backseat Mafia. The band – Manuela Rabitsch, Bastian Andorfer and Aaron Dal – formed in Vienna in 2013, and have been …