pop
Premiere: Lucky Lo reveals new video for ‘Supercarry’
We’re delighted here at Backseat Mafia to be able to premiere the new video from Swedish musician Lo Ersare, aka Lucky Lo today, for her second single ‘Supercarry’, the follow up to much lauded debut ‘Heart Rhythm Synchronise’. On the impetus behind the song, Ersare says In Scandinavia we have an incredible safety net. We …
Track: Jared Alto drops the haunting piano essay, ‘Stranger’
THE DRUNKEN phone call or text. Maybe to your ex, or a friend you’ve had recent beef with, or whomever; the advice the world over is simple; don’t do it. Nuh-uh. Never. But London-based LGBT+ singer-songwriter Jared Alto proves a serendipitous exception to the golden, drunken rule. Always inherently possessed of a proper singer’s voice, his …
See: IMOGEN ascends from intensive surgery in the piano catharsis of ‘Bloodbag’, her haunting debut single for Stay Loose
STAY LOOSE are more than a little pleased to welcome a new Tyneside talent to their burgeoning roster of excellent song-crafters in IMOGEN, a singer-songwriter with a voice that alternates between confessional soothing and a powerful soar, singing out the pain in healing catharsis. Pain? Well the single’s title, a one-word, two-syllable image of stark …
News: Kekko Announce Debut EP ‘Dreaming Life’; Listen To Track ‘Within You’
Kekko is the psychedelic lovechild of Singaporean dream-pop duo Tim and Cherie Kekko. They have announced the release of their debut EP ‘Dreaming Life’, due 11th June via Spirit Goth. “Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as …
See: Kate Nash reveals new video for first new music in 18 months, Misery
Returning with her first new music in 18 month, Singer-songwriter, actor and activist Kate Nash’s brand new single is the bittersweet ‘Misery’. Of the song, which focuses on the feelings of quarantine, Kate says “I definitely went through depression. For the most part of the year, I just didn’t have the energy and I was …
Track: Banoffee makes ethereal return with new single and video of air-bending emotion for ‘Tapioca Cheeks’
Melbourne singer-songwriter and producer Banoffee returns with a shimmering new single Tapioca Cheeks and accompanying video. The track was written just before the COVID-19 pandemic, during her last LA studio session with PC Music’s French, synth-pop, shoegazers Planet 1999. ‘Tapioca Cheeks’ is a post-relationship love dedication of a sort, to someone who is seemingly unlovable. Banoffee …
Track: Faye Webster shares title track and video from new album ‘I Know I’m Funny, Haha’ out 25 June
Faye Webster’s latest track release ‘I Know I’m Funny haha’ is the artist’s fourth single (following ‘Cheers’, ‘Better Distractions’ & ‘In A Good Way’) as well as title track from her eagerly anticipated new album, which will be out on 25 June via Secretly Canadian. Webster says of the song: “It went from being a …
Track: David Gray – Accumulates
David Gray today releases a new video to accompany ‘Accumulates’, which features on his critically acclaimed twelfth studio album, Skellig, now available across physical CD & vinyl formats via Laugh a Minute Records /AWAL Recordings. Read our review here. Gray likens it to A Chomsky-trope about how things just kind-of seep into you, and then the next thing you know, you’re making a decision that …
Track: Sydney Sprague – End Of The World
Singer/songwriter Sydney Sprague, has shared a new single from her recent album ‘Maybe i will see you at the end of the world’ which is out now via Rude Records. The new single is titled – End Of The World Sydney has said of the track, “I wanted this song to feel like uncontrollably falling …
See: Eartheater – ‘Volcano’: a tenebrous, glittering, elemental pop gains dramatic visuals
THE QUEENS-based multimedia artist Eartheater has shared the stunning and elemental visuals for “Volcano”, a track taken from her critically acclaimed album examining rebirth, life, death and all points in between from last year, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin. Wholly self-written, arranged and composed by Eartheater herself, the album seeks to draw a …