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Feature: Ohmme give us an exclusive track by track of their new album Fantasise your Ghost
Out last Friday via Joyful Noise was the new album from the Chicago based duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, aka Ohmme. Called Fantasize Your Ghost, the album was the result of the pair spending more time on the road than in Chicago, and looking at the concept of home, as well as ideas …
Track: Idles – Grounds, plus album news
The brutal and eminently vital IDLES have just released a video for a new song – ‘Grounds’ – and announced details of the release of their third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – out on 25 September 2020 through Partisan Records. ‘Grounds’ is pure IDLES – swiftly moving, aggressive and sharp yet leavened by a poetic …
TRACK: Fjord boy Kristian Grostad debuts with widescreen ‘Feels Lighter’
KRISTIAN GROSTAD is a fjordgutten – a “fjord boy”. Hailing from Steinkjer on the craggy Norwegian west coast, an eight-hour drive from Oslo, Kristian grew up in a musical household and began writing music when he received a guitar as a gift. A move to Oslo not long afterwards inspired a wave of creativity as …
SEE: The Close Lobsters have still got the guitar shimmer nailed – ‘Godless’
STRAIGHT outta Paisley on the back of the C86 guitar pop wave, Close Lobsters were a little unfortunate to fly under the radar compared to some of their contemporaries. The pristine jangle shimmer of singles such as “ Never Seen Before” and “Going To Heaven To See If It Rains” led to a brace of …
Track: TIFFY – Don’t wanna talk
TIFFY, aka songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer Tiffany Sammy is greasing up to the release of her new 7” single – out on June 19th through Dollhouse Lightning (IF there’s still any of the hyper limited edition of 25 left), and she’s donating 100% of vinyl and digital sales and 50% of cassette sales over the …
Track: Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard – Double Denim Hop
Out on July 10th via Missing Piece Records / Communion) is the debut release, The Non-Stop EP from Welsh quartet Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard. From it they’ve shared a new track, Double Denim Hop, which magnetic frontman Tom Rees describes as being “the first time I felt fully confident as a writer… it set me off …
Exclusive: James Holt records a three track session for Backseat Mafia
We were very taken with Bolton singer-songwriter James Holt’s recent single ‘Pendulum’, so we we’re absolutely delighted that he agreed to record an At Home Session for us here at Backseat Mafia. He’s recorded three tracks – Pendulum and recent single Mystery Girl bookend a lovely version of Albert Hammond’s It never rains in Southern …
NEWS: Lewsberg unveil new 7″, video, UK tour dates
ROTTERDAM lofi darlings Lewsberg are poised to make a three-pronged assault on your expectant guitarpop consciousnesses. First out, the band have announced the release of a new 7”: a new edit of “Through the Garden”, a pretty, declamatory essay, propelled along on a Sterling Morrison-type riff, and taken from album In This House, which is …
SEE: Fuzzbox re-enter the fray with X-Ray Spex cover
BIRMINGHAM’S bubblegum punk legends We’ve Got a Fuzzbox And We’re Going To Use It are back – with a shiny reimagining of the X-Ray Spex classic “I Can’t Do Anything”. The seed to take on Poly Styrene’s first-wave punk number was sown at last year’s Polyfest: a celebration of the X-Ray Spex singer held each …
See: The Cribs release Be Safe lockdown video featuring Lee Ranaldo
Coming over two years since their last album and tour, The Cribs’ lockdown version of their hallowed track Be Safe is even more poignant. As a band adverse to any form of inactivity or hiatus, their hefty break, alongside the indeterminable claustrophobia of the lockdown blues themselves, meant fans were clamouring. The band have often cynically dismissed their …