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Say Psych: Album Review: Mugstar – Graft
Centripetal Force (North America) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK/Europe) last week released the latest LP from Mugstar, Graft, the follow up album to their much-lauded live collaboration with Can’s Damo Suzuki released earlier this year. Mugstar have been hurtling through the sonic multiverse since 2003 and have left an extensive discography in their wake. Early on, …
SEE: Generation – ‘Suicidal Champagne’: first salvo from Liverpool’s new trashrock gods
JAMES and Dean Carne, the Liverpudlian ‘brothers sin’, grew up on a diet of fine funk and soul, but both had a eureka moment when they fell for the less subtle seductions of the brilliance and the sleaze and greatness of the rawk. They formed Generation in their late teens, building up a reputation by …
SEE: Red Rum Club’s ‘The Elevation’: brassy pop for the blue-tick age
AS THE rain starts to wrap us in autumn, at least Liverpudlian sextet Red Rum Club are here to bring a little thoughtful pop sunshine. Today they’ve dropped a video for “The Elevation”, a sweet brass-led groove about a fractious relationship in the WhatsApp age: when you get no reply even after “the ticks go …
SEE: the rage of Stone’s ‘Stay Silent’, live from Liverpool
STONE: solid, unyielding, hard. It’s pretty much the perfect name for the Liverpudlian band that have picked up a dazzled DJ fan in the shape of Radio One’s Jack Saunders, who’s championed them all through the crawl-those-walls caging of the Covid lockdown. But they’re back or rather, they’re unleashed; they’re full-on and they’re ready to …
SEE: Merseyside duo King Hannah debut with ‘Crème Brûlée’, sign for City Slang
SOMETIMES it’s just absolutely the right time for a band. Sometimes, that band exists as a fully formed notion; and it just needs to step out into the physical world. This is the case, I’d venture, with Liverpool duo King Hannah, who’ve announced their official arrival at the musical ball with their debut offering, the …
SEE: Red Rum Club – ‘Ballerino’: some proper shapes thrown, tour news
YEAH, you think you’ve got moves, Christopher Walken? The star of Deerhunter and so many other Hollywood classics, who revealed he had an absolute line on owning the dancefloor in the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice“, has got some serious Liverpudlian landlord competition coming at him thanks to Red Rum Club. The Merseyside …
SEE: Paul Molloy – ‘My Madonna’: ’68 psych-pop finery
THEY get absolutely bloody everywhere, these Coral boys. Turn your back for so much as a second and another one of them has stepped out from beneath the psychedelic skirts of the main band to bring you their own personal set of finely crafted tunes. Drummer Ian Skelly brought us his second, Drifter’s Skyline, just …
See: Jamie Webster’s acoustic pop rallying cry, ‘Common People’
HE’S got that big Liverpudlian heart, has singer-songwriter Jamie Webster – like Gerry & The Pacemakers, like The Mighty Wah!, The Pale Fountains, so many others, he has that understanding of a great and stirring tune written through him like a stick of rock. He’s just released the upbeat acoustic pop of “Common People” – …
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 …
Premiere: Garsa – The Devil’s Own
After releasing a stunning debut earlier this year, (‘Jimmy sour highs‘) solo artist Martin Garside, operating under the name Garsa, is back with another perfect slice of dream pop/ shoegaze in ‘The Devil’s Own’, which Backseat Mafia is proud to premiere. This is a beautiful release, infused with an air of wistfulness and yearning and …