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PREMIERE: Joshua Lewis returns with ‘Heartbreaker’ and announces new album ‘Friction’
If it feels like it’s not been too long since we last heard from Idaho’s Joshua Lewis, that’s because it hasn’t – January 2021, to be precise. That was when he released his most recent album Too Soft, and fans of that record will be delighted to know he’s back late next month with an …
Premiere: Melbourne’s INSTYNKT take us on a rocking, anthemic ‘Ride’ and announce single launch date.
We are pleased to premiere the video for the track ‘Ride’ from Melbourne band INSTYNKT. ‘Ride’ is a powerful guitar-driven track that resonates with a pop sensibility while setting a blistering pace. At heart is the kind of pure rock’n’roll filled with blood sweat and tears that used to form the mainstay of Australian pub …
Premiere: Conrad Greenleaf ascends the elegant electronica of ‘Mount Analogue’ via an immersive, organic video, ahead of album release.
We are very pleased to premiere this morning the new video for artist Conrad Richters’s project Conrad Greenleaf whose single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a spaced out emission of electronica that gently ricochets inside your head and pulsates with a psychedelic thrum. Plonking raindrop pianos and natural sounds lead us gently into the track itself before …
Premiere: Prudence’s dark perspective says ‘It’s Useless’ – a rich textured piece of shimmering gold, preceding new album ‘Negatives’.
Crystalline, razor sharp guitars immediately focus attention on Prudence‘s stately anthemic single ‘It’s Useless’: they ring out like bells as the steady paced track commences with an euphoric, effortless march. With shades of The Verve in its psychedelic magnificence and singer Tom Crandles’s vocals, this is a shimmering track that we are honoured to premiere …
PREMIERE: Brook Pridemore is ‘Glad to Be Alive’, announces new record with brilliant lead track ‘Wore Me Well’
Meet Brook Pridemore. If you know them, you don’t know them like their new record. It’s out later in the year, it’s called Glad to Be Alive and it’s the next chapter in the storied career of someone last seen diving into metal on last year’s Trve Grind EP. The Brooklynite’s 15-track album doesn’t have …
Premiere: Maia Marsh’s ‘Big Deal’ is a mesmerising, enchanting single fusing a dream pop fugue with a folk ambience.
Sydney’s Maia Marsh has an impressive form, having been a session musician (lead guitar, bass, vocals) for a number of artists including Huck Hastings who has graced our pages before and Ainsley Farrell, Georgia Mulligan, Georgia Fair and Gloomie. In addition, she was a founding member of dream pop outfit Goodside as well as being …
PREMIERE: Karaboudjan previews new EP with the expansive ‘Scatter’
The Southern California-based Billy Kim impressed us when he released his debut EP as Karaboudjan last year, with IMAGO putting him on the map as a solo artist. Kim is also part of Tycho‘s live band, where he cut his teeth before embarking on a career of his own, and it’s taking him places. His …
Premiere: Darcy Lane’s ‘Bored’: a soft and sultry observation on the ephemeral nature of modern life, plus single launch date and EP announced.
We are very honoured to premiere on Backseat Mafia the new single ‘Bored’ from Eora/Sydney-based alternative-pop artist Darcy Lane. This is a heavenly pop delight which assuages the temporal gloom we face these days with a silky soft and haunting refrain. It contrasts the sweetest pop delivery with an acerbic theme that acutely observes the …
Premiere: Meanjin/Brisbane magicians Terra Pines unleash a sonic wall of brilliance in new single ‘Indoor Kid’ ahead of ‘Downbeats’, their new album.
Brisbane’s Terra Pines‘ ‘Indoor Kid’ is a sonic wall of brilliance: a track that hammers and claws its way into your head and takes permanent residence, lounging around with waft of psychedelic substances in the air. We are overjoyed to premiere this piece of aural adrenalin here at Backseat Mafia. Clocking in to the consciousness …
Premiere: The Valery Trails lead us to a dreamy paradise with video for ‘Zancudo’ on the eve of their new album ‘The Sky Is Blue’.
Brisbane jangle pop exponents The Valery Trails enticed us in with their single ‘Jaisalmer‘ back in June, and their follow up single ‘Zancudo’ confirms their prowess at creating an indelible sweet pop sound. We are very proud to premiere their new video for this sonic slice of sunshine. Expansive multi-layered vocals create a heavenly chorus …