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Track: David Gray announces new album and shares two new singles
David Gray is set to release his twelfth studio album, ‘Skellig’, due 19th February via Laugh a Minute Records / AWAL Recordings on with CD & vinyl to follow in May. With the album news Gray has also shared two singles off the album ‘Skellig’ and ‘Heart And Soul’. Regarding the album Gray comments: “The more I contemplated the idea …
Track: Nancy Sinatra releases ‘(L’été Indien) Indian Summer’ ahead of year long reissue series
Grammy winning reissue label Light In The Attic have announced a comprehensive definitive compilation of Nancy Sinatra’s 65-76 output in a campaign spread out over a year, to celebrate her 80th year. Confident that this is first time anyone has really done her career justice, there’s a lot more than maybe meets the eye to …
Track: Foxes – Hollywood
Foxes has shared one of her most beautiful, raw and honest songs to date with ‘Hollywood’ via PIAS recordings. Revealing some of the most challenging experiences she had chasing her dreams to Los Angeles as a young songwriter, Foxes comments: “Anyone who has spent some time in Los Angeles will understand the long shadow that amazing city …
Track: The Staves Release New Track – Satisfied
The Staves have shared a new track ‘Satisfied’, taken from their upcoming new album “Good Woman”, due for release on 5th February 2021. ‘Satisfied’ is the third track so far released from the album alongside ‘Trying’ and ‘Good Woman’. The band had to say on Satisfied: “This started out with an acoustic guitar. The song asking its subject – will …
Track: Detective Larsson – 21 (Dreamt of Freedom)
Welsh band Detective Larsson who have just released their debut single ’21 (Dreamt Of Freedom)’ with two B-sides in the form of the bands arrangements of Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson’s ‘My Rifle, My Pony and Me’ and Marianne Faithfull’s ‘As Tears Go By’. All jangly and floaty with a deep bass, ’21 (Dreamt Of …
Track: Joe Garratt – Toxic
North Easts rising star and electronic synth-pop artist Joe Garratt is finishing the year off with the release of his new track – ‘Toxic’ via Enter Records About the track Garratt comments: “Toxic is basically about a toxic relationship, a dark time for me, but also a time for growing, learning, empowering myself and rising …
Track: Susanna releases the beautiful interpretation of Baudelaire’s poetry in ‘Burial’
Burial is the second single to be taken from the new album from Susanna, Baudelaire & Piano, out on September 11th via her own SusannaSonata label, and it sees the Norwegian artist tackle the poems of Charles Baudelaire (1821-67). The poet, an literary enfant terrible who suffered from disease most of his life, was a man who …
Track: Baby Taylah – Good Enough
New single/EP launch from Scottish pop princess out June 26th via Icons Creating Evil Art Baby Taylah, hails from Glasgow, and since the age of 14 when she first engaged with music, she has been experimenting with music production as well as playing guitar, harp and electronic instruments – Taylah is forging her own identity …
MNRØ – I’m not running to you
Out right now is the debut single by Manchester singer-songwriter MNRØ, I’m not running to you, and it marks her out as something to watch out for in the rest of 2020 and beyond. Over bubbling electro beats, MNRØ lays down her expletive laden rejection of continually being used, and taking charge of her own …
Track: Lianne La Havas – Can’t Fight
Following on from the glorious Paper Thin we covered here on Backseat Mafia, Lianne La Havas is back with another taste of her forthcoming eponymous third album with a new track, Can’t Fight. Produced and co-written by Mura Masa, it talks of a struggling relationship. Of the track, Lianne says “You know it’s not good, …