Electronic
Premiere: Cate Ferris – Keep Going
Brighton-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cate Ferris wanted to offer some solidarity and hope to all of us either stuck inside or working on the front line in the battle against Covid-19, so she is going to make a download of her new single ‘Keep Going’ available for free download on Bandcamp for one month from …
News: 808 State announce huge hometown show at Manchester O2 Ritz
808 STATE will return for a LIVE hometown show at Manchester’s O2 Ritz this Winter, which is sure to be the best pre-Christmas party of the year. Following their phenomenal appearance at Manchester Academy in December 2018 and a mesmeric live set at Bluedot Festival and at the Warehouse Project last year, the Acid House …
Track: Bassi Fox – Everything I wanted
Mt. Wolf frontman/producer Sebastian Fox (under the moniker Bassi Fox) has stepped away from that project for a while to focus in writing some slightly different stuff, as he explained to us ‘Justin Vernon playing video games with Billie Eilish and James Blake in Norway kind of vibes’, and he’s just released a cover of …
Track: James Blake – You‘re too Precious
Busying himself in this lockdown period with his live streams on production, covers, fan favourites etc, James Blake has released his first new material of the year, You’re Too Precious. It’s a beautifully intimate and fragile thing, it’s shadowy electronics sporadically giving way to this delicate piano figure, as little fragments of vocals or vocal …
Track: Westerman – Your Hero is not dead
Taken from his debut album of the same name, out on June 5th via Play it again Sam, ‘Your Hero is not head‘ is the latest single from Westerman, following on from ‘Waiting on Design’, ‘Think I’ll Stay’ and ‘Blue Comanche’. Of the track Westerman says “This was the last song I wrote for the …
Track: Shadow Fashion – Children of the NIght
San Antonio-based dark electronic band SHADOW FASHION are proud to announce the release of their new video and single, “Children Of The Night.” ‘Children Of The Night’ is on the rocky edge of the dark dance genre which is where ‘Shadow Fashion’ sit so well. The synths are thick and the drum beats are relentless. Topped with …
Track: Boardgame James – Daydream EP
Boardgame James has announced the release of his debut, ‘Daydream’, a four-track EP of string-led instrumental grime released via 1000Doors on May 1. Part of grime’s great radio resurgence in 2015 as one half of Handsome Boys with Moleskin, Boardgame James offers up four tracks from the vault, developed and reworked to form his debut EP. …
See: Tilman Robinson release Clathrate Gun
Out now and taken from his just released album Culturecide, both out via Bedroom Community, is the new single from Australian composer/sound designer Tilman Robinson. The track is this undulating electronic piece, supposedly developed from a musical crytogram, created from the Paris Accord. It flits and jumps around, leaving the bass to be the static, …
TRACK: PET SHOP BOYS – I DON’T WANNA
Fourth single from their latest album – ‘Hotspot’ Pet Shop Boys release ‘I Don’t Wanna’ from the synth pop duo via their own label x2. ‘I Don’t Wanna’ would not be out of place if they released it at the start of their career and not when entering their 4th decade of music making. They …
Premiere: Lucy Dreams release new video for ‘The Journey’
Vienna duo Lucy Dreams have today released their new video for The Journey, the single that came out last week on Austrian label Prueckl Beats, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. What started out as an Audio-AI became, at least in the minds and imaginations of the …