Indie
Track: Mike Polizze – Revelation
Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya has announced that his debut solo album ‘Long Lost Solace Find’ is out on July 31st via Paradise of Bachelors, and from it he’s released the lead single ‘Revelation’. Performed entirely with longtime friend Kurt Vile and recorded by War on Drugs engineer Jeff Zeigler, it’s …
Premiere: Sang Froid reveal new video for Lachrymose
Leeds art-rockers Sang Froid have returned with the second of three singles they’ve recently recorded, Lachrymose, and we’re delighted to be premiering the accompanying video right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Ais- the bands vocalist/keys player, says “This song is a simple mirroring of what I hear in my head all day, …
Track: The Suncharms – 3 Billion Heartbeats
There’s always something comforting about a new track from The Suncharms, the reactivated 90s Sheffield shoegaze band that deal in messy, enveloping guitars and that little bit of melancholy, and thats no different with their new one, 3 Billion Heartbeats. Taken from Indonesian micro-label / Fanzine Shiny Happy’s ‘PLease Rain Fall’ compilation album that all …
Album Review: Deerhoof – Future Teenage Cave Artists
This four-piece, originating from San Francisco predominantly, punctuated the year with a string of singles from upcoming album “Future Teenage Cave Artists”. Previous singles had fans salivating and the album will undoubtably sate fans and beyond; with leaps, hops and skips into unfamiliar territory. With over a dozen albums since their first in 1997, it …
Track: Key Out – Stray
The warm fuzzy shoegaze sound of Sydney band Key Out is at the fore in their new single ‘Stray’ – a delightful shimmering piece that seems soaked in nostalgia and an air of satisfying wistfulness. Mixed and mastered by the legendary Wayne Connolly (Underground Lovers, Youth Group, You am I and Died Pretty amongst others) …
See: DMA’s release video for The Glow
We were highly impressed by the title track off DMA’s forthcoming album ‘The Glow’, describing it as having hallmark euphoric stadium-perfected choruses, anthemic and pulsating yet underpinned by an air of melancholia. What we have come to expect, in other words, from one of Australia’s most impressive musical exports. The band has just released an …
See: The Clockworks – The Future Is Not What It Was
Clocking in at just 2 minutes and forty-one seconds, ‘The Future Is Not What It Was’, the new single from The Clockworks, immediately makes it clear this is a band with a future, built on the genes of a very admirable past. The angular, stop/start delivery is reminiscent of the very best of the post …
Track: The Wedding Present – Once More
National treasure and certainly in the running for greatest living songwriter (in our view) and greatest living Englishman, David Gedge formed the glorious Wedding Present in the early 1980s. The bands second single, Once More was originally released on the bands own Reception Records in 1985, and appeared on the brilliant early compilation ‘Tommy 1985-1987’. …
Exclusive: Yaglander – The Straight and Narrow (At Home Session)
Earlier this month we premiered the new video from North London’s Yaglander’s Straight and Narrow, and we were so taken with his laconic Mark E Smith vs Cate Le Bon thing, we asked him to record the song in lockdown session style, and he’s come up with the goods and only gone and done it. …
See: Once & Future Band share video for Airplane
Taken from their recent Deleted Scenes album, Once & Future Band have released a new video for the track ‘Airplane’. Then track itself, is this prog-folk epic, that starts slowly, all guitar effects and wispy melodies, before it morphs into an almost jazzy middles section, the sheen of the Saxophone and guitar interplay nodding towards …