Psych
News: Psych legends LOOP return with their first album in 32 years; see the immaculately acid strobe-fest of ‘Halo’
I REMEMBER the first time I fell down the LOOP rabbithole, as an uninitiated 17-year-old in love with the jingle-jangle sound of early Creation Records, grappling with the situationist excellence of Bogshed and Stump; finding my way into The Fall’s This Nation’s Saving Grace with a whole armful of questions for Mark E Smith. In …
Premiere: Marty K and the Electric Hurricanes unleash a sonic storm with their swaggering psychedelic track ‘Rattle Snakes & Bones’
We are pleased to provide an exclusive listen to the new single from newcomers Marty K and the Electric Hurricanes. ‘Rattle Snakes & Bones’ is an electronic blast – a steady moving rumble that travels resolutely on a carriage of crunchy guitars roaming wildly and freely across the sonic landscape, complete with squalling solos, the …
Premiere: Margate Psych trio Gentle Stranger release the joyful visuals for ‘Once In A While’
Margate based psych trio Gentle Stranger are about to release a new video for the track Once in a While, taken from their recent album Phantom Thoroughfare (PRAH Recordings), and we’re delighted to have the first plant of it right here on Backseat Mafia today. “This song was partly inspired by a letter my grandma …
Album Review: Pluto Jonze releases a multicoloured universe of pop in his vibrant album ‘Awe’
The new album ‘Awe’ by esteemed Sydney-based artist Pluto Jonze (Hey Geronimo) is ten dollops of sweet ethereal goodness, filled with indelible melodies and dreamy, cloudy and hypnotic soundscapes. Jonze displays an ear for melody brushed with a degree of theatricality which makes for a thoroughly enjoyable listen. This is an ambitious album presented in widescreen with …
News: Spiritualized return with a new album and a tour for ’22; hear ‘Always Together With You’
ONE of the best bands you’ll ever commune with live should you get the chance, Spiritualized, are set to return in 2022 with a new album, Everything Was Beautiful, due for release in February on Bella Union. It’ll be their first in nearly four years (since 2018’s And Nothing Hurt). They’ve also dropped a first …
News: She Drew The Gun announces February 2022 Panopticon tour dates
On the back of the release of her much lauded album ‘Behave Myself’, singer-songwriter Louisa Roach aka She Drew The Gun has announced a new UK tour, named the Panopticon tour, that will take place in February next year. It will be a chance for her fans to see her notoriously powerful and affecting live …
See: The enigmatic ANIQO drops the crisp darkwave of ‘Fear’ in time for the Hallowe’en shadows
ANIQO is the enticing, mist-wreathed musical incarnation of Berlin singer and poet Anita Goß, who’s slinking through the shadows in this most supernatural of months with the crisp darkwave of “Fear”, the video for which we’ve got just down there. Born and brought up in the former East German Baltic port city of Wismar but drawn …
See: Breton psych explorers Djinn drop visuals for ‘The Void’
HARD psych explorers Djiin, the four-piece from Rennes in Brittany who are about to drop their third album, Meandering Soul, from which they’ve unveiled the slowburn, progressive jam of “The Void” – you can watch it below. The Rennais stoners have laid down six tracks for Meandering Soul, their first long-playing outing since 2019’s The …
Say Psych: Live Review: Girls In Synthesis @ Rough Trade, Nottingham 23.10.2021
Tonight at Rough Trade, non profit organisation Rock Against Racism Nottingham are hosting London’s Girls In Synthesis. Formed in 2016, they have acquired somewhat of a cult following, and with good reason. If you’re looking for a sound that’s somewhere between something you know really well, and something you’ve never heard before, you don’t have …