shoegaze
Meet: Vaadat Charigim ahead of their first U.K. Shows
One of Israel’s most influential bands, Vaadat Charigrim are a band that prove good music has the power to transcend boundaries and overcome borders. Their sound may draw reference to Ride and Slowdive, but by infusing it with influences closer to home, and positively exploiting the rhythmic lilt of their ancient language – all their …
Track: Ringo Deathstarr – Guilt
Austin shoegaze trio Ringo Deathstarr return with a new album and a fuller, more mature sound – With the band saying “We have never spent as much time on any album before, but it was only a few hours a day maybe 3 times a week… Sometimes less”. The resulting fifth album, Pure Mood is …
Track: The Lion and the Wolf – My Fathers Eyes
Tom George, aka The Lion and the Wolf, is back with a new, second release, My Fathers Eyes. Available as a limited edition 7inch, George is releasing a second single, Bar Stools, from the release. It tells the story of a drunken walk home. “The song is about a time I made a stupid decision …
Premiere: Presents for Sally – Wishawaytoday
Taken from Colours & Changes, the second album from Bristol indie/shoegazers Lresents for Sally, we’re delighted to premiere the video for Wishawaytoday here on Backseat Mafia. The track opens with this jangly, angst ridden guitar and soon unfurls into this shoegazey slice of glorious pop music, propelled by this thundering bass and these echoey, obscured …
Meet: The Telescopes
In the many turbulent winters that enveloped our delicate island since the formation of The Telescopes in 1987, Stephen Lawrie and Co. have sought to plant subversive little seeds into the tortured soil of our cultural landscape. Each seed could be differentiated from its sisters by her shape, weight and age, as well as by …
News: We preview Reverence Valada Festival 2015
Tomorrow starts one of the most novel and exciting music events happening in Portugal at the moment, Reverence Valada Festival. After last year’s excellent first edition of the festival, expectations have been overcome with this year’s more ecclectic but equally fresh line up of artists who will be performing on the 27th, the 28th and …
Track: Sweet White – Tides
Aberdeen five piece Sweet White are due to release their new EP, Monet, later on in the year and ahead of it, the band are streaming the first track to be taken from it, Tides. Opening with this well worn path of synth infused indie, shoegaze (nothing wrong with that, you understand) it nods towards …
EP: Wozniak – Auster
Here at Backseat Mafia, we’ve been long time admirers of Scottish Post-Rock/Shoegazers Wozniak. The Edinburgh four piece have a new EP, titled Auster, out now via the bands bandcamp page, and its another step forward for the band. Opening track Snow Effect marries this buzzsaw guitar line with another – echoey, almost tinny sounding one, …
Track: The Bulls – Small Problems
Out on August 28th via Diet Pink Records comes the new EP from inide/alt-rockers The Bulls, called Small Problems. The Los Angeles two piece, Anna Bulbrook of The Airborne Toxic Event and Marc Sallis of The Duke Spirit, have revealed the title track from the EP ahead of its release on Friday. It begins with …
Track: Star Horse – Slower Now
We’ve written about Stockholm shoegazers Star Horse before. and so to discover they’re back with a new single, out now through Häxrummet Records on 7” vinyl with B-side ‘Wherever You’ (you can be ordered over at the groups bandcamp) was too good an opportunity to miss. Described by the band as ‘A melancholy ode to …