Indie
SEE: El Goodo’s ‘The Grey Tower’ psychs like The Seeds
QUIETLY working to their own, slower calendar in the Vale of Neath since the 20th flipped to the 21st, Wales’s El Goodo offer up pebbles of psych-folk-country goodness for anyone who steps through their door. We should trust their hospitality. Take that name. Yes, of course it namechecks Big Star. How can we not be …
Daniel Blumberg releases three new tracks ahead of album
Daniel Blumberg’s 2018 release ‘Minus’ never drew the recognition it deserved. A profound record of late Scott Walkeresque scale with songs balanced on an improvisational high wire, it was a massive leap from the indie noise gaze of his former bands Cajun Dance Party and Yuck. Now Blumberg is offering the next instalment of his …
SEE: Ed Harcourt returns, ‘Drowning in Dreams’
FOLLOWING his last album, 2018’s Beyond The End, dashing singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt has announced his ninth studio album, which is due in mid-September, will also be a set free of vocals – and a counterpoint to his previous. Monochrome To Colour will also be big, cinematic, and evocative, but Ed promises that this one will …
See: Kaleidoscopic video for Squid’s ‘Broadcaster’
The music video for Squid’s most recent single, Broadcaster, sees them working with visual artist Wieslawa Ruta. The video combines Squid‘s ever-evolving musical kaleidoscopes with an equally bedazzling array of lights, which morph and distort with kinetic emotion throughout. Despite being relatively subtle compared to the marvelously convoluted music of Squid, the seamlessly-adapting visual spectacle …
Track: Thrillhouse – Wild Child
It is with great delight we feature another single from that enigmatic and mysterious Brighton band Thrillhouse. This is the third in a set of highly impressive set of singles from a band that in terms of history is punching way above its weight. ‘Ready When You Are’ and ‘Lesser’ featured echoes of Talking Heads …
Premiere: Liverpool’s Sienne reveal new single – Side By Side
Liverpool band Sienne are preparing to release their third single ‘Side By Side’ on Friday 17th July, following the success of previous singles ‘Coming Alive’ and ‘Where Is Home?’, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. The four-man band from Warrington have made an impressive entrance to the music scene so …
Premiere: Dunebug – Impossible With You
Dunebug is essentially the project of Manchester born, London-based bedroom musician Chi Limpiroj. Ahead of her debut album, due out later in the year, she’s releasing a new single – Impossible With You, out tomorrow (17/7), and we’re delighted to premiere it today right here on Backseat Mafia. Of the track, Chi says “I wrote …
TRACK: Chappaqua Wrestling’s ‘Football’ shreds it like the Fannies
BORN into musical families, Brighton duo Chappaqua Wrestling – Charlie Woods and Jake Mac – knew exactly how to respond when the coronavirus swept a scheduled summer of festival appearances down the dumper: record, record, record. As appearances at fests such as The Great Escape and Truck Festival melted into infective impossibility, they cracked on …
See: Young Knives release new video for ‘Society for Cutting Up Men’
Taken from their forthcoming album ‘Barbarians’, Young Knives – aka brothers Henry Dartnall and The House of Lords have released a new single, Society for Cutting Up Men. Named after Valerie Solanas’ feminist political pamphlet the SCUM Manifesto. Henry explains: “I really just wanted to write a song from this position. The basic idea is …
Track: Monograms – American Dreamz
Monograms, aka Brooklyn based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ian Jacobs, is gearing up for the release of his new album ‘Only a Ceiling Can Stay Inside Forever’, out on PaperCup Music on July 31st, and ahead of it he’s released a new single from it American Dreamz. Of the album, written in these Covid times and …