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TRACK: Paris Youth Foundation – ‘The Back Seat’: reaching out for that old flame with stirring guitars
GEARING up for a 2020 round of the festivals in which their music is readymade for cans and arms aloft, Liverpool’s Paris Youth Foundation watched the whole circuit vanish in the viral onslaught; a tough time for every band just itching to play out and commune in the musical love. But they’ve picked themselves up, …
SEE: Chaz Knapp – ‘My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess’: all hail the warm organ drune
DALLAS’S Chaz Knapp has a very particular way with an organ drone – or a drune, as he styles it – as you can hear on his forthcoming album, Organ Drunes. He brings a singular texture to his way with a vibey drone, and one not without a wayward sense of humour, as you can …
SEE: Khruangbin release video for ‘Dearest Alfred’ – and a Knxwledge mix, too
MORDECHAI, Khruangbin’s stunning third album from last summer, set the seal on their position in the music world; a critically adored brew of psych, funk, disco, dub and global influences, it was seriously great. Seriously great. Theyve taken a slight return to one of Mordechai’s most emotive tracks, “Dearest Alfred,” a track we noted our …
NEWS: The Coral announce album no.10, ‘Coral Island’; see ‘Faceless Angel’
ROLLOCKIN’ back in from their fastness on The Wirral, the inestimable The Coral, who’ve brought us so much off-kilter psych-pop joy in our lonely rooms since buccaneering into our world what? Jeez, nearly 21 years ago now – have just announced that they’re back, back, with studio album number ten, Coral Island, which will be …
PREMIERE: Fish and Scale – ‘You Can Call Me LOVE’: swoon for a folk troubadour’s embrace
HAILING from Franconia, in southern Germany, Roland Wälzlein is on a mission to bring us glowing, stirring folk as Fish and Scales – and we’re premiering his first, rather groovy and lovely, single of the year, “You Can Call Me LOVE” here today at Backseat Mafia. As a child of 6, he underwent – and …
SEE: The video for XIXA’s ‘Eclipse’: Tucson barrio sextet go back to their roots
FOLLOWING on down that seductive, dusty road from their previous singles, September’s “Genesis of Gaea” and late October’s “May They Call Us Home”, Tucson’s TexMex rock fusioneers XIXA have dropped the video for “Eclipse”, another instalment from next month’s album, Genesis. You can watch below. It’s a rousing tune, showcasing a poppier end to the …
NEWS: Clark returns with March album for Deutsche Grammophon: hear ‘Small’
CLARK, the electronica voyager who came hurtling into our lives for Warp at the turn of the century and quickly decided his mission was to empty the bones of you – an offer in equal parts thrilling and worrying – is returning at the end of March with his ninth studio album, Playground In A …
SEE: The Fernweh – ‘The Wounds Of Love’: an excellent, returning baroque psych banger
THEIR self-titled debut back in 2018 was a bit of a cracker, frankly; they received the love from The Coral guitarist Paul Molloy last year, picking them when we popped round to his (figuratively speaking) and did a Soundtrack Of Our Lives, looking at the music he loves; and lo! they’re back, be glad, with …
See: Sunglasses For Jaws – ‘Walk Me Home’: enter the psychedelic pop world of Frank
DAVID BARDON and Oscar Robertson have been burrowing quietly into the London psych scene since 2017 as the surreally and aptly named Sunglasses For Jaws. By day, they’re a readymade rhythm section for hire, touring the world in the business of fleshing out other people’s sound, But they’re currently more psyched right now (in both …
SEE: Indigo Sparke – ‘Everything Everything’: astonishing spectral folk
IF MARISSA NADLER, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan light up your world with otherworldly folk fire – and if they don’t, then maybe we can’t be friends after all – then you really need to take a seat right this minute, and be astonished by Australian folk artist Indigo Sparke, who’s recently inked on …