Indie
See: We Melt Chocolate – Blue Hair Girl
Florentine band We Melt Chocolate are an indelible part of Italy’s explosive indie music scene along with bands like Unruly Girls, Rev Rev Rev and the many magnificent psych bands covered recently on Backseat Mafia’s series on Italian psych music. We Melt Chocolate have just released an engrossing video for the song ‘Blue Hair Girl’ …
Album Review: Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky
If it wan’t enough that Tim Burgess fronts one of the most beloved, successful and long lasting indie bands The Charlatans, or that he has singularly redefined music in the COVID-19 age of isolation through his now legendary twitter parties, Burgess has now released an absolutely stunning solo album. And let’s get one thing straight, …
Feature: Breathless give us a track by track rundown of The Glass Bead Game – Reissued today
Reissued today is the 1986 debut album from dark indie band Breathless. Called The Glass Bead Game, it saw the band – bassist Ari Neufeld, singer, keyboardist Dominic Appleton (who went on to guest in indie supergroup This Mortal Coil), Guitarist Gary Monday and drummer Tristram Latimer Sayer, go into the Blackwing Studios with John …
Track: Husband Material – Spring
Out right now is the debut single from Liverpool trio Husband Material, Spring. Formed in November 2008, the band have been making waves locally, gaining fans and supporting the likes of Otherkin and Husky Loops. Spring sees the band skirt around everything from shoegaze, The Cure, to a nod towards pop punk, while finding a …
See: Wolfhounds release video for Can’t see the light
Ahead of their new album Electric Music, out via A Turntable Friend in July 3rd, legendary London-based indie band, and contributors to THAT C86 NME tape Wolfhounds have released a new video and single, Can’t See The Light. Talking of the track, the bands Frontman David Callahan says “Musically, ‘Can’t See The Light’ has a …
See: Sean Christopher releases new video for Indigo Blue
Dutch singer-songwriter Sean Christopher has returned for the follow up to his much lauded debut album ‘Yonder’, which dropped back in 2018. He’s just released a third single from its follow up ‘Wander’, out on May 29th, called ‘Indigo Blue’. Christopher describes the song, “‘Indigo Blue’ is a song about love and how love can …
Meet: Dead Meadow’s Jason Simon on his new solo record ‘A Venerable Wreck’ and more
Ahead of the release of his new album A Venerable Wreck, we tracked down Dead Meadow’s Jason Simon to tell us more. We’ve already fell for the single ‘Red Dust’ with its arid psych country stylings and with the albums out tomorrow (May 22nd) on the Chilean label BYM (home to Föllakzoid, Chicos de Nazca, …
Track: Keaton Henson – Career Day
An artist in many forms-illustrator, poet,T-shirt designer,composer and exceptional songwriter – Keaton Henson always brings a sense of devotion to his work. You can feel that dedication and care seeping through his newly released single ‘Career Day’ which is available now via ‘Play It Again Sam’. A song of reflection, sketched by Keaton’s rich guitar …
Album Review: Magnetic Fields – Quickies
Last week, Quickies by The Magnetic Fields hit my inbox, ironically accompanied by the longest press release I’ve seen in a while. In it I found a description of Stephin Merritt’s writing process: a series of spatial and temporal limitations inspired by the “flash-fiction” of author Lydia Davis that forced Merritt to make use of …
Premiere: The Milltown Brothers – F.I.L.A.
Hot off the press and ahead of their new album Stockholm, out at the end of the month, we’re delighted to be premiering the new track F.I.L.A. (Falling in love again) from The Milltown Brothers right here on Backseat Mafia today, ahead of its release on a streaming platform near you tomorrow. We adored the …