Indie
See: Video for Asylums’ ‘Who Writes Tomorrow’s Headlines?’
Asylums recently released the video for Who Writes Tomorrow’s Headlines?, taken from their recent album Genetic Cabaret. The lyrics revolve around “the puppet masters, those ominous figures that are pulling the strings and manipulating our narrative in the surveillance capitalism age“, according to frontman Luke Branch. The video’s ‘night-vision’-style visuals accentuate, to an incredible extent, …
TRACK: Milky Wimpshake’s tweepunk starburst ‘You Make A Nice Piece Of Art’ leads for October LP
IF YOU like your indiepop punky and proud, erudite and bearing a manifesto – yeah, like it used to – then Newcastle’s Milky Wimpshake should so be on your shopping list. The thrashy twee punk project of Pete Dale that has been releasing lofi sherbet grenades of purest bouncealong thrashpop for a quarter-century now – …
News: Semisonic Release First New Music In Twenty Years With EP – ‘You’re Not Alone’
Today, the Grammy-nominated trio Semisonic released “You’re Not Alone,” the group’s first new song in nearly 20 years. The single is the opening track from their forthcoming five-song EP You’re Not Alone out on September 18 via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. “I wrote ‘You’re Not Alone’ a couple of years ago at a time when a lot of people, including me, were …
Not Forgotten: The Presidents of the United States of America – The Presidents of the United States of America
The Presidents of the United States of America is a far more durable album that you might expect.
Album Review: Even As We Speak – Adelphi
There is a fragile and elegant beauty in Even As We Speak‘s new album ‘Adelphi’ that leaves the listener swooning with bliss. The entire architecture of the album is built on graceful, sweet melodies expressed with a purity and naivety that is endearing and enthralling, and is yet imbued with such a sense of world …
See: James Dean Bradfield – The Boy From The Plantation
With the announcement of Bradfield’s second solo album due August 14th via Montyray/The Orchard we are presented with the video for the third track – ‘The Boy From The Plantation’ Directed by longtime Manic Street Preachers collaborator Kieran Evans, the video features James in Wales alongside archive footage sourced specifically for the video. Kieran Evans: says of the …
EP REVIEW: Devendra Banhart – ‘Vast Ovoid’: bursting with ideas
DEVENDRA BANHART was one of the main beneficiaries of the American acid-folk explosion just after the turn of the century. He came in as part of that movement with bands like Vetiver and Espers and became almost the George Best of the movement: piratically handsome with that dusky hair and huge hoop earrings, a brace …
Premiere: Moon Attendant release the indie psych of Hot Power
Taken from Brighton indie psych collective Moon Attendant’s forthcoming album ‘One Last Summer’, out 28th August via Big Potato Music, we’re delighted to premiere ‘Hot Power’ today right here on Backseat Mafia. The band includes some old friends making new music. Brother Blewett and Holton from Black Hearted Brother are on vocals/guitar and synth/production. Label …
Premiere: The Son(s)’ icy, baptismal video for ‘Lord, I Am Grateful’
EDINBURGH’S The Son(s) are not a band to shy away from the raw side of living in their creative pursuits. The video for their latest song, which the band are premiering today with Backseat Mafia, is the absolutely soul-wide-open paean “Lord, I Am Grateful”, and which was filmed immersed in the icy, peaty currents of …
SEE: Floodlights – ‘Matter Of Time’: garagey Melbourne bite
GUITAR pop from Australia and New Zealand: it’s inarguably a very good thing. From the 1980s onwards, with bands like The Chills, The Go-Betweens, Straitjacket Fits, The Verlaines – no area of the world has had such a dialogue with that particular brand of British-originating indie six-string action. And now we’re into a new and …