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Premiere: LMNL release new single Outliar
LMNL, aka Oxford’s Simon Batten, has released a new single ‘Outliar’ taken from his upcoming debut eponymous EP, out today via Upcycled Sounds, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. Of the song, Batten explains: “It’s not really a spoiler to say that this song speaks about social anxiety, and how …
See: Mines Falls release video for single ‘Hey Mother’
L.A. duo Mines Falls at a pair of brothers who work in film and design during the day, and make moody electro heavy pop music by night. Ahead of their self-titled debut album out on September 18th, they’ve released a new single/video, Hey Mother. On the song, singer Carson Lund says, ‘“Hey Mother” is the earliest …
TRACK: Alex Jayne – ‘Backseat’: the city from a taxi with an acoustic guitar
ALEX JAYNE, the London grown-up pop songwriter with an eye for the odd side of life, has revealed her latest track, “Backseat”. She’s following “90s Dream” , in which, surreally, she imagined attending her own break-up movie, with this sweetly sung, intelligent slice of acoustic pop, observing the city from her taxi home. She said: …
SEE: Marie Davidson & L’Oeil Nu – ‘Renegade Breakdown’: electro chill and strength
MONTREAL’S Marie Davidson, veteran of that city’s DIY scene, musical polymath, fierce declaimer; like Grace Jones, you wouldn’t mess, frankly. Have a watch of the lyric video for the latest track “Renegade Breakdown”, which she’s just dropped for Ninja Tune and see if you’d dare. It’s a pulsing, dirty slice of electro-house over which Marie …
SEE: the glamorous and glittery new video for Erasure’s ‘Nerves Of Steel’
VINCE CLARKE and Andy Bell, better known to all and sundry as electropop legends Erasure, have just released the video for their latest single, “Nerves of Steel”: watch with us, below. The none-more-glamorous video clip features more than 20 LGBTQIA+ stars, including several best known for their appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Andy said: “This is …
Track: Alexia Avina – Fit Into Released Through Lost Map’s Postmap Club Subscription.
A brand-new signing to Lost Map Records, Alexia Avina is an American singer-songwriter previously based in Montreal, now living in rural Massachusetts, whose heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions. Alexia’s new single ‘Fit Into’ (b/w ‘Swampy’) is released at the end of July as part of Lost Map’s PostMap Club subscription service. Her new album Unearth will be released on CDR, …
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 …
EP: Tommy Ashby Has Released A Rather Lovely EP ‘Everywhere Is Home’
Scottish singer-songwriter, Tommy Ashby, has released his three track EP ‘Everywhere Is Home’ out now via Wow and Flutter Records. Produced by the artist and double Grammy Award winning producer Sam Okell, ‘Everywhere Is Home’ includes the title track of the same name and previous singles ‘Blood Wolf Moon’ and ‘One Word’. The title track ‘Everywhere Is …
Track: Katy J Pearson Shares New Track ‘Fix Me Up’ To Go Along With New Album News
After a good few years of hard work Katy J Pearson is pleased to announce the news of her debut album, ‘Return’, which will be released on November 13th, 2020 via Heavenly Recordings. In celebration Pearson has also shared the addictive new track ‘Fix Me Up’ and its accompanying video. Speaking about about the track Katy said: “Quite an old song now, but it’s …
Album Review: Alanis Morissette – Such Pretty Forks In The Road
We Alanis Morissette fans are a patient bunch. It’s been almost exactly eight years since the release of her last album Havoc & Bright Lights. But whilst I class myself as a an Alanis super Stan (do the kids still say Stan?) I haven’t loved everything she’s ever done. It seems like she’s at her best …