pop
Track: Chloe Styler releases the yearning, effervescent pop track ‘Consider Me Gone’
‘Consider Me Gone’, the new track from Gold Coast musician Chloe Styler, is a gorgeously haunting pop classic with a driving, insistent undercurrent and a vaulting and celestial chorus. Styler says of the track: It’s the perfect blend of every influence of mine, from early 2000s punk pop to 80s pop to a more contemporary …
See: The Self Esteem-collaborating Soft Lad steps out on her own with the leftfield pop glow of ‘Singapore’
SOPHIE GALPIN? Another of those musicians doing god’s work in bringing the tunes to us, hiding her light under a bushel in support of others, crafting the songs of others for us to lurve. It’s something she’s done half her actual life so far: 14 years with acts such as The Breeders, James Vincent McMorrow …
Track: Nisa – The Saviour
New York City-based artist, Nisa, will release her second EP, ‘Time To Plant Tears’ on December 2, 2021. This follows on from her self-released EP, Guilt Trip that arrived earlier this year. Born to Albanian immigrants in the Bronx, Nisa (full name Nisa Lumaj) learned to speak Albanian before English and grew up listening to the traditional folk music of her …
Album Review: Louie Short – Omw 4ev
Toronto / Los Angeles artist Louie Short has giving us an album where “The genre is songs” and where he is the sole creator on this collection of DIY aesthetics. An album about love and the glorious feeling of living in the moment, forever. Short comments: “People are drawn to beginnings and endings, whether it be …
See: Rainy Miller examines the small losses of our everyday in ‘Death At The TV Dinner’
PRESTON’S Rainy Miller roams the Ribbleside Lancashire city, with its proud modernist architecture seeking its tales and bringing them to life with a breakbeat-informed modern pop, full of atmosphere; a modern Alan Sillitoe of West Lancashire, he peers through the curtains at the real lives being lived. He’s just dropped a video for the future …
Track: New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma release the delightful melodic shimmery pop of ‘Mona Lisa’ and announce tour
New Zealand pop merchants extraordinaire Yumi Zouma have just released the absolutely shimmering track ‘Mona Lisa’: a sparkling, shining wonder that exudes a sort of melancholic ray of light across the skies like the elusive Aurora Australis. With hints of saxophone in the distance and a rousing chorus, this is pop mastery at its finest. …
Premiere: Overland Inn gives us an exclusive listen to their brilliant new single ‘Le Hibou’
Czech-based French duo Overland Inn have had a very productive couple of months (quite literally: they have just welcomed a new baby into the world this week – congratulations!) and the momentum and productivity continues unabated with the release later today of a new single through the inimitable Brisbane False Peaks label. We are very …
Premiere: Dela Paz releases new track Favorite Dress
Mexican-American singer-songwriter Dela Paz returns with a new single Favorite Dress , made in collaboration with beatmaker and producer Wolfgang Pander, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the song, Dela Paz told us “Favorite Dress portrays a difficult stage in a relationship as a couple …
EP: Flowerkid’s ‘Everyone Has A Breaking Point’ charts a poignant journey of pain, growth and resilience over perfect pop structures.
The Sydney prodigy Flowerkid (twenty-year old singer, songwriter and producer Flynn Jorge Sant) has just released his debut EP ‘Everyone Has A Breaking Point’ and it is a stark reflection of a three year journey Sant has experienced coming out as transgender. Filled at times with a bleak vision of toxic masculinity, suicidal ideation and struggle, there is …
Track: Approachable Members Of Your Local Community suggest you ‘Just Say It’ in a luminescent burst of sunshine pop, while announcing an East Coast Australian tour
When writing my long planned magnum opus on the chemical formula for a jolly good pop song, due reference will be made to tunes such as ‘Just Say It’ from the wonderfully named Approachable Members Of Your Local Community. The present ingredients in this bubbly, effervescent track are a dash of sweetness (but not so …