Trip-Hop
Track: Ambient explorer Earthen Sea previews the soulful ‘Rough Air’ from his soon come album ‘Ghost Poems’.
Jacob Long (aka Earthen Sea) has a musical provenance that inevitably draws you in to take a look. He’s been a member of the Dischord endorsed, post-hardcore agitators Black Eyes, injected sax and bass to the electro-dub, no-wave work-outs of Mi Ami and since 2014 released less abrasive sounds as Earthen Sea, probing ever deeper …
Track: Bonobo shares ‘From You’ ft. Joji ahead of new album ‘Fragments’ out this Friday
Electronic superstar and master of diverse collabs Bonobo (aka Simon Green) shares the final single from the highly anticipated new album drop Fragments, ahead of its release via Ninja Tune this Friday. From You features the Brooklyn-based, fledgling lo-fi-er Joji and follows previous singles Tides with Jamila Woods and Shadows with Jordan Rakei, showing the …
Track: Bonobo releases atmospheric new single ‘Tides’ featuring Jamila Woods: ‘Fragments’ LP out January 2022
After the long-awaited announcement of new album Fragments, Bonobo (aka Simon Green) has released single Tides featuring Chicago singer, songwriter and poet, Jamila Woods. Bonobo will also be headlining 3 live shows at Royal Albert Hall, on top of other UK dates as part of a world tour in May 2022 (full dates below). For …
Track: Melbourne’s Meghna releases ‘My DNA’: a haunting and atmospheric elegy to poverty and struggle.
Meghna Mitra releases the most sublime music under her name Meghna and her new single ‘My DNA’ belies her youth with its world weary tones and chilling themes. Over a sparse trip-hop electronic beat, Meghna’s evocative vocals recount the experiences of her Indian parents and grandparents and the horrors and realties of a life in …
Premiere: Mike Alias – ‘Drift’: celestial jazz-hop from California
CALIFORNIAN artist Mike Alias today releases his new single, “Drift”, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here today on Backseat Mafia. Born into a musical family, Mike took inspiration from the hiphop and R&B roots of the Bay Area, using his guitar and music production skills to create his unique soundscapes. …
Album Review: The Actions unveil the luscious atmospheric ‘Flourish’
Bristol duo The Actions‘ display their home town trip hop roots adeptly in their new album ‘Flourish’, out now through Niteo Records. This album has a spacious expansive atmosphere with glitchy, sticky percussion, eclectic instrumentation and Marta Argenio’s voice a soft, silky breathless whisper floating across the surface. There is a rich luscious patena to …
Premiere: DEATHDEATHDEATH feat. KMT – Promised Sleep
We’re delighted here at Backseat Mafia to premiere the new collaboration between Vietnamese multimedia artist Fazo, aka DEATHDEATHDEATH alongside singer, performance artist and certified speaker KMT. It’s out today (December 29th) via Numavi Records. It’s experimental trip-hop, using Fazo’s dark sound inventions and laying down this sprawling backing that is descriptively alien sounding despite its …
See: Legendary trip-hop duo Kruder & Dorfmeister release new single and video – Johnson
Legendary trip-hop pioneers Kruder & Dorfmeister have announced their new album, the long awaited 1995, is out on October 30th via G-Stone Recordings, and from it they’ve released new visuals for the track ‘Johnson’. Smokey, jarring beats and electronic hue is the order of the day with Johnson as it floats along, pushing and prodding …
EP: Massive Attack – Eutopia
Massive Attack have teamed up with Algiers, Young Fathers, and Saul Williams to release an incredibly interesting audio-visual EP that feels like more of an art installation than three tracks that happened to be released together. The EP, entitled Eutopia, is essentially a series of three mini-lectures with enough audio and visual stimulation to keep …
See: We Came as Strangers release video for ‘Still Life’
Experimental rockers We Came as Strangers have released a new video for the track Still Life, taken from their forthcoming third album, Eyedom, out on August 31st. Originally formed as a side project for the four-piece, with Guitarist Justin Sandercoe explaining “I wanted to do a proper band where we all write the songs and …