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PREMIERE: Free Country – ‘The Life Of Riley’: wistful, essential lofi from his hometown basement
FREE COUNTRY is the indie pop project of LA’s Jason Ribadeneyra, a man with an ear for a wistful, low-key melody delivered with weary truth in his voice. Tomorrow he releases his latest six-tracker, the introverted, pretty-as, guitar and piano indie pop stylings of The Life of Riley; but tomorrow, as Annie sings so famously, …
PREMIERE: See the video for Arch Garrison’s ‘Open My Eye’: warm psych-country track trails tomorrow’s LP; live stream news
ARCH GARRISON, the ‘other’ project of North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam, have a rather lovely album of pastoral psych-folk, The Bitter Lay, out tomorrow on Believer’s Roast. It’s an album steeped in the landscape of the chalk downs; of spindle-whorls turned up by the plough, of seemingly endless old drove roads cresting the ridges; …
PREMIERE: Hear the wild, loose psych of Muzzle Tung’s new album ‘Gannet’ in full
I KNOW, I know. You’ve got an aural itch you just need to scratch, right? You want psych. But aah … that’s nearly hit the spot, but … OK, maybe not just psych. Loose and ragged, unafraid to let it all hang out; the edges fuzzing and bleeding. Hmmm. I’ve got just the thing, comin’ …
PREMIERE: See the video for Urlaub in Polen’s ‘Impulse Response’: Cologne duo reunite, LP to follow
COLOGNE’S Urlaub in Polen – the new wave-tronica duo of singer George Brenner and drummer Jan Philipp Janzen – have been away from our turntables for almost a decade now. In fact it’s nine years since they released album no.5, Boldstriker, and promptly announced it was all over. But the giddy wheel of time shifteth …
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …
PREMIERE: Demsky – ‘Cold Coffee’: a chilled drink and loose-limbed, ambient downbeat
IT’S BEEN a proper learning curve: I mean, we’ve all had to find our own ways of dealing with … this, haven’t we? Whatever gets you through. Personally I’ve got friends who’ve deep-dived into utter vinyl addiction; who’ve really got into 5k running, or taken up painting for the very first time; who’ve planted out …
Premiere: Key Out releases video for haunting single ‘Buildings’ plus list top ten influences
Key Out are a phenomenal Sydney band – I recently rated their brilliant album ‘Anthropomorphia‘ a well deserved nine out of ten. Backseat Mafia is therefore utterly delighted to premiere Key Out’s new double sided single consisting of the opening track from the album, ‘Buildings’ as well as a remix of earlier single ‘Chorus’. ‘Buildings’ …
Premiere: Werner Niedermeier & Gareth Whitehead – ‘Nineteen92’: taking ‘tronica out past Khruangbin
PROLIFIC producers Werner Niedermeier and Gareth Whitehead have been working together for about a decade now. As well as their busy DJ commitments and running their own record labels they have have found time to put out releases on a myriad of imprints, including Compost, Kling Klingon and Poker Flat. They’re gearing up for their …
Premiere: The Son(s)’ icy, baptismal video for ‘Lord, I Am Grateful’
EDINBURGH’S The Son(s) are not a band to shy away from the raw side of living in their creative pursuits. The video for their latest song, which the band are premiering today with Backseat Mafia, is the absolutely soul-wide-open paean “Lord, I Am Grateful”, and which was filmed immersed in the icy, peaty currents of …
Premiere: We Are Waves – SELVA
Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere the new video from Italian post-punk/synthwave band We Are Waves for their blistering new track ‘SELVA’. Brewed and percolated in lockdown conditions, the wave of innovative and very exciting music from Italy continues unabated in this track: a hybrid of electronic industrial drive and straight out indie rock. The …