Indie
TRACK: The Lemon Twigs – ”No One Holds You (Closer Than The One You Haven’t Met)’: arch songwriters’ take on soured romance
BRIAN and Michael D’Addario, the brothers and musical prodigies who dazzle us mere mortals as The Lemon Twigs, are tantalising us with another taster from their forthcoming third full-lengther for 4AD, Songs For The General Public. “‘No One Holds You (Closer Than The One You Haven’t Met)” like everything the D’Addarios touches, it crams more …
SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: Pennine baggy-psychesters waylay us again; album news
MOSSLEY – pronounced Mozzley – high up where the Pennines lurch high and wild, right out on the north-eastern fringes of Greater Manchester, has spawned a looming, mist-blurred collective known in whispers, from Delph to Dobcross, to beset weary travellers with hard and chaotic, baggy funk, lyrics chomped and spat, guitars sprawling, the better to …
Premiere: Low Girl releases heartbreaking debut track, ‘ICU’
Out of tragedy comes ICU, the new single from Low Girl, out today and premiering right here on Backseat Mafia. Recorded in lockdown and with little access to recording equipment, it’s taken from her debut EP, expected some time in the Autumn. It’s about a man close to Low Girl, Steve, the father of her …
SEE: Sing Leaf’s ‘Easy On You’: wrap y’self inside indie-folk bliss
“THIS is the best song I’ve written, I think; real simple and clean,” says Sing Leaf’s David Como of the single he’s just released, “Easy On You”. “I wrote it while still living in the city [Toronto], an apartment in the trees near High Park. “People below us would howl and rage at each other …
Premiere: Délage releases the indie / synth-pop of Shopping Mall
Out today on Field Mates Records (Jimmy Whispers, Yuko Yuko..) is the new single from Délage, led by Amsterdam based Till Hormann. It’s taken from his forthcoming second album ‘Twist And Doubt’, out in September 18th, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here today on Backseat Mafia. Starting like some of …
SEE: LARRY PINK THE HUMAN debut new single, ‘Purpose Built’
INDIE rockers LARRY PINK THE HUMAN have released their third single, “Purpose Built”, and an accompanying video. The band consists of Jolyon Thomas, whose work as a producer includes such artists as Kendrick Lamar, U2 and Royal Blood, and Laurie Vincent – who as a guitarist forms one-half of the band Slaves – taking the …
ALBUM REVIEW: Liela Moss – ‘Who the Power’: pop that takes one last dance as the world ends
OVER the past couple of years and one very warmly received LP, Duke Spirit member and Bella Union solo artiste Liela Moss – watch your vowel placement with care, folks – has carved herself something of a niche for a strong and dark pop draught, heady with intensity, 80s’ melodicism, courage and a complete willingness …
TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t
GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting, all draped in her clear, sweet tones, has announced a new album – her first for the label that gave her first single release, Lost …
See: Are We Static release new video for The Godfather
Ahead of the release of their sophomore album, Accepting The Universe, out in the Autumn on Vibrant Sky Records, Wigan’s Are We Static have released a new video for recent single ‘The Godfather’. Wearing influences such as Longview, Idlewild and Embrace if not in their sleeves, at least their collars and cuffs and mixing it …
Track: Gardening release second single, Second Sight
The London quartet Gardening have released their second single ‘Second Sight’, out now in the Lable Fandango, following in from thei pr debut – the self released Taste Invader, released as Mirror Shot. Wanting to distance themselves from another new band of that name, they’ve adopted their moniker for this follow up. Taking from the …