Indie
Album Review: Hinds – The Prettiest Curse
Hinds take us from bad times to great times with exhilarating new album The Prettiest Curse. The third album from the Madrid-based quartet (Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrote, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen) couldn’t have come at a better time. As we tentatively take our baby steps into the “new normal”, Hinds are there to hold …
Premiere: Les Nuby – Never Falling Away
We’re delighted here on Backseat Mafia for Les Nuby’s single ‘Never Falling Away’, taken from his debut solo album ‘Clouded’, out July 10th via Cornelius Chapel Records. If you’re not familiar with Nuby’s CV, it’s extensive. Starting out as a drummer in the 90s indie rock power house Verbana, he’s a one time touring member …
Album Review: Doomshakalaka – Doomshakalaka
Rafferty has constructed a collection of ten songs that work as both a great piece of work but also a piece of archive material as he looks back on his life in and around music starting with the album opener ‘One Last Saturday Night’ a song he originally wrote in 2011 about the feeling of …
EP: DITZ – 5 Song EP
Brighton post-punk / noise rock quintet DITZ have today (June 3rd) released their new EP, called, well, 5 Song EP. It’s out as a limited run of 500 on beautiful pink vinyl 12” via the ever brilliant Alcopop! Records label. Comprising of New track Role Model which has already been on the end of some …
Track: Blue River – ‘Tetsuo’
Out this Friday from These Bloody Thieves Records, the new single from Cornwall band Blue River with Tetsuo. We are thrilled to host this track ahead of release. The track is a powerful stomping shot of rock and roll adrenaline. Taken from the Japanese for ‘clear thinking man’ the track the band states is about …
Album Review: Katie Malco ‘Failures’
The debut album by UK based singer-songwriter Katie Malco. The much anticipated debut by Katie Malco, Failures, is released by 6131 records, and is both a personal soul-bearing record and an album about the power of connecting with relationships; marking this out as a record of this time and by this time. The ten song …
Album Review: Muzz – Muzz
The ‘supergroup’ moniker conjures a vast spectrum stretching from the cringey banality of 2010’s ‘McBusted’ revival, or the spectacular 60’s rock wet dream of ‘The Dirty Mac’. Contrary to the “pish” usually issued at the word, the debut album of Interpol’s Paul Banks alongside Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman and The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, shuns …
News: PJ Harvey – Entire Back Catalogue Reissued On Vinyl Also Release Of Dry-Demos
UMC/Island and Beggars today announce a comprehensive reissue campaign which will see PJ Harvey’s entire back catalogue – plus her two albums in collaboration with John Parish – released on vinyl over the next 12 months. For the first time, each of PJ Harvey’s album demos will be available as a stand-alone album on digital and vinyl. This catalogue …
Track: Trent Halliday – Get Close
Essex Singer-songwriter Trent Halliday has released a new track ‘Get Close’, written this year and taken from a forthcoming album, details of which to follow. Trent says of the process and the current climate, “….I have been recording a new album. All of the songs for it have been written this year. Those written before …
See: Land of Talk release new video for Diaphanous
Land of Talk have released a new video for the track Diaphanous, taken from their forthcoming album Indistinct Conversations, out on 31st July via Saddle Creek. “After recording and sharing the initial demos, hearing what Bucky [bandmate Mark “Bucky” Wheaton (drums/keys)] had manifested from essentially just my humming and strumming at once both floored me …