electronic tracks
Track: Alpines – Heaven
London duo Alpines are back with a new album, Another River, out on October 28th via Metropolis Recordings. It’s a follow up to their 2014 debut, Oasis, and builds on their emotive R&B, garnering fans such as The xx, The Maccabees and Florence Welch. Ahead of the release, the pair have released a taster of …
Track: Murcof x Vanessa Wagner – Statea
InFiné records have released Statea by Murcof & Vanessa Wagner. TRAINSPOTTER ALERT: The title of the album is a reference (in old Italian) to scales and also the perfect balance between two units of measurement (now you know) Here we see the Mexican ambient figurehead Fernando Corona (known as Murcof) and French classical pianist Vanessa Wagner team …
Track: Alyss – T S I E R
Taken from her forthcoming ‘Motherland’ EPm out via PMR on October 28th, T S I E R (an abbreviation of This Shit Isn’t Even Real) is the new single from Brighton singer-songwriter/producer Alyss. Following on from her debut EP Answers which caught the attention of many of the country’s tastemakers including Toddla T and Mistajam, …
Track: Patience – The pressure
After debut single The Church sold out immediately and reached number one on the hype machine chart, there’s been a fair amount of anticipation building for the follow up from Patience, aka Roxanne Clifford of Veronica Falls. The follow up, The Pressure, drops on September 30th via Glasgow’s Night School Records, and see’s her inhabit …
Track: Prides – Are You Ready?
Prides have returned with a brand new single, ‘Are You Ready?’, ahead of an intimate tour of the UK, reintroducing themselves to the world with unforgettable music to soundtrack the best night you’ll ever have. It’s the second offering in Prides’ new chapter – teasing us with ‘Rome’ back in May – as they write …
Track: Cubicolor – Fictionalise
Having already seemingly become the darlings of the alternative airwaves, garnering support from Tom Ravenscroft, Namone, Steve Lamacq and the legendary Pete Tong, Cubicolor – aka Dutch producers Ariaan Olieroock and Peter Kriek, along with former Duologue frontman Tim Digby-Bell, release their debut album Brainsugar this coming Friday (16th September) on the influential Anjunadeep label. …
Track: M83 – Roadblaster
After garnering much praise and admiration for his new album Junk, which fused together old school house sounds and synthesised vocals into his ambitious prog-pop, M83 aka Anthony Gonzalesz has announced that one of the albums stand out tracks, Roadblaster is to be released as a single on November 18th. Built on this brassy but …
Track: Empathy Test – Demons/Seeing Stars
There’s something really enigmatic about London-based electronic duo Empathy Test. Even without listening to a note, there is a lot of mystery attached to the art work that accompanies previous releases ‘Throwing Stones’ and ‘Losing Touch’. Aesthetics are obviously an important factor to them as a band, and on listening, the emotive and cinematic sound they …
Track: Stillhound – Time Enough For Love
Stillhound ensure that you make time for their catchy electro-pop with new single ‘Time Enough For Love’. The Edinburgh trio of Fergus Cook, Laurie Corlett-Donald and Dave Lloyd – joined by Cat Myers (also of Honeyblood) on drums – have pooled their various influences and a shared love of their homeland to create their brand of …
Track: I am Karate – Swayze
Here at Backseat Mafia we’re not the sort of people to be duped by what’s supposedly cutting edge and fashionable right now – you know, the sort of icy, cool synth pop made by icy, cool people, so we viewed the new single Swayze by Swedish duo I am Karate with a certain amount of …