Indie
SEE: the fine English psych whimsy of Jeremy Tuplin’s ‘Space Folk’
“I BELIEVE in magic / space magic … put on your unicorn jacket, covered in bat ships.”. So exhorts Somerset’s Jeremy Tuplin in the opening lines of his current single, “Space Magic”. So whoah: where are we, exactly, now … ground control? As with the lyrics, the video for the song (which you can watch …
NEWS: Slowdive’s debut gets the flaming treatment
SLOWDIVE’S 1991 debut LP for Creation, Just For A Day, is set to get a limited flame-coloured 180-gramme pressing by Resident Records. The album, which was slated by the British inkies at the time but which has come to be seen as a cornerstone of the reappraised shoegaze movement, features overdriven, ambient guitar classics such …
Premiere: The Know reveal new video for Dreamlike State
We’ve already waxed lyrical about The Know, husband and wife duo Daniel Knowles and Jennifer Farmer and their EP WeAreTheKnow. Bringing to bear his previous experience with shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire, they make sweeping, attractive indie rock, with a certain scuffed shoegaze sound. Such was the case with the track who’s video we’re premiering right …
Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher
The solo artist, boygenius, and Better Oblivion Community Center member’s second album delivers modern perceptions on mental health and weighty musings on relationships, while displaying the effects and symptoms of relationships rather than simply being love songs, across a lurid but vivid instrumental canvas. The opener’s warped, sparse and eerie vocals resonate like an onomatopoeic …
Track: Remo Drive – A Flower And A Weed
Remo Drive hit us with another massively catchy indie rock ballad, ‘A Flower and a Weed’, from their forthcoming album. ‘A Portrait of an Ugly Man’ is out digitally and on vinyl via Epitaph Records on June 26 The two brothers Erik (vocals, guitar) and Stephen (bass) Paulson have created some magic from their parent’s basement in Minnesota and their self-produced and …
See: Doves release first new music in eleven years – Carousels
After an eleven year gap since releasing new music, Doves are back with a new single Carousels, looking back over childhood innocence “It’s a reminiscence of the times that we’d go to places like North Wales on holiday as kids,” says Andy Williams. “Places where you had your first experience of sound systems and music being played …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Gist – ‘Interior Windows’
CARDIFF’S Young Marble Giants subverted the revolution while the fires were still lit. In an age when guitars were razor-loud and lyrics were spat, the Welsh four-piece turned it right back down to a female-led fragility. One album was recorded for Rough Trade before fragmentation and the group’s main protagonists went firing off in different …
TRACK: Sunderland’s Sly Hand’s fiery debut, ‘Big Pharma’
FORMED just last year, Sunderland duo Sly Hand’s sound was forged in the fire of family trauma, which brought two hitherto estranged cousins = Andrew (vocals and guitars) and Paul (drums) – together to make cathartic music. And the first fruits of this consanguinous collaboration is single “Big Pharma”, which is available now at Bandcamp. …
Premiere: Lucy Dreams release Know my Number track / video
We’re delighted to premiere the new single from Lucy Dreams – Know My Number this morning here on Backseat Mafia, and equally delighted that they are currently recording an At Home Session for us, which will be live on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks. Please support the channel and subscribe if you can. …
NEWS: Alex Taylor, RIP: the indie world pays tribute
AS THE sad news of the death of Alex Taylor, singer of fuzzpop legends The Shop Assistants and The Motorcyle Boy, reverberated around the indie music world, peers and contemporaries paid tribute on social media. RIDE said, via their Twitter portal Ride – The Network: “Sad news about Alex Taylor … a small but significant …