Indie
Exclusive: Tommy Ashby does Blood Wolf Moon live in session for Backseat Mafia
We fell for Scottish singer-songwriter Tommy Ashby’s recent Blood Wolf Moon single, its aching melancholy set against this bubbling acoustic guitar, so we were absolutely delighted when he agreed to do an At Home Session for us here at Backseat Mafia and record the track, taken from his forthcoming EP ‘Everywhere is Home’, out this …
Track: Two Tone Television – Old News
Out now is the new single from Glasgow indie punk Two Tone Television, Old News. They’ve been creating something of a storm in their native Scotland, earning rave reviews for their live show, and they’ve managed to capture some of that energy in their new single. Built on the kind of riff that would make …
Track Toronto indie folk band Decoration Day release ‘Lanark County’
Taken from their forthcoming debut album Makeshift Future, Toronto folk band Decoration Day have released a new single, Lanark County. It’s described by guitarist and songwriter Justin Orok as a vision song. “It follows a kind of surreal dream logic,” says Justin. “The imagery comes out of this just-below-the-surface hostility I would feel when visiting idyllic …
TRACK: Home Counties’ ‘Dad Bod’ – fantastically Peel show awkward squad
IT WOULD seem the Bristol underground scene is in rude health. Last week we had a new download-only only round-up from Dorset boys moved uptown with a whole clutch of stoner psych goodness, Leeches. And now we have a second missive from Brizzle-based guitar shamblers Home Counties: and it’s a cracking, snotty-cuffed slice of John …
Album Review: Attraktors – Attraktors
Made up of former members of Julian Cope’s band, Six By Seven, Bivouac, The Selecter and The Nectarine No. 9, we’ve already given some love to Nottingham space/krautrock trio Attraktors on more than one occasion on these pages. They take little elements of all of those bands in their new self-titled album, with elements of …
SEE: Dope Body’s vid for sleaze nugget “Home Body”; Spotify playlist
BALTIMORE’S answer to Royal Trux, newly rejuvenated sleaze rockers Dope Body, have released a video to accompany “Back in Back” from their May return set, Home Body. And you can watch it below. Maryland’s self-styled 21st-century Stooges, who returned with their new set of material since 2015’s Kunk just a few weeks ago, had this …
Track: Brendan Benson – Dear Life
Taken from his recent album of the same name, “Dear Life” is Brendan Benson’s third track to be released via Third Man Records. After the synthetic feel of “Good To Be Alive”, “Dear Life” follows “Richest Man”, and finds Benson back on familiar territory with his unique indie sound. An acoustic guitar keeps things together …
Track: Willie J Healey – Fashun
Willie J Healey takes another big step towards the August 7th release of his new album ‘Twin Heavy’ via YALA! records, by sharing the new single ‘Fashun’ along with its official video. It sets an irresistible tone as the opening track on the album, but curiously was recorded after Willie thought it had been completed. It was recorded during an improvised session with producer …
TRACK: In Earnest’s ‘Put Me Under’ swoons in out of the darkness
SOUTHEND trio In Earnest have taken their bow in the world with a delicate, emotive single, “Put Me Under”. The band say the single “is an honest, personal account of depression and loneliness, aiming to encourage conversation around mental health”. It has a transatlantic folk-rock delicacy, with the vocals of front-couple Sarah and Thomas tracing …
Track: Kestrels – Vanishing Point
Nova Scotia shoegazers the Kestrels are sharing their second single, ‘Vanishing Point’, from their upcoming album Dream or Don’t Dream, out on Darla Records on July 10th. Guitarist and vocalist Chad Peck explained: “I liked the idea of the record opening with the band kicking in with this intense and hypnotic riff as opposed to a synth …