Memphis Industries
NEWS: Baba Ali announce second album Laugh Like a Bomb and release new single ‘Burn Me Out’
The Anglo-American duo Baba Ali have announced their second album Laugh Like a Bomb which is set for release on 21 April via Memphis Industries. In addition they have released the first track from the album ‘Burn Me Out’. Full of pulsating basslines and synths it is dancefloor fare but done the Baba Ali way. …
See: Blue States – ‘Plain Sight’ feat. Rachael Dadd – a step into folktronica from Andy Dragazis ahead of his sixth album
BLUE STATES, the lovely downbeatz project of Sussex’s Andy Dragazis, is following last year’s necessary and expanded repressing of his classic album Nothing Changes Under The Sun with another peek into the world of his new album, his sixth and also first in six years; come inside and twirl with the complex atmospheres of “Plain …
See: Field Music reveal new video for ‘Not When You’re In Love’, plus Podcast and Tour news
Here at Backseat Mafia we love the brothers Brewis – Peter, David and associates aka Field Music, and any excuse to rattle on about them, we take. As it is, there’s a load of stuff happening at camp Field Music as the band release a new video for their latest single ‘Not When You’re In …
See: Field Music release brilliant new video for No Pressure
Ah, Field Music. You can never go wrong with Field Music, hence they are one of our favourite bands here on Backseat Mafia, so we’re delighted that their new album ‘Flat White Moon’, os out on 23rd April via Memphis Industries. From it, the band, led by brothers Peter and David Brewis, have released lead …
See: Francis Lung releases new visuals for the classic songwriting of new single, ‘Bad Hair Day’
Former Wu-Lyf man Tom McClung is back with a follow up to his 2019 debut ‘A Dream Is U’ under his Francis Lung; called Miracle, it’s out on Memphis Industries on June 18th, and for vinyl fans – it’s available on a Dinked Edition (more info here), and is preceded by a new single ‘Bad Hair …
Track: The Phoenix Foundation with Fazerdaze – ‘Beside Yourself’: bright and trippy dream pop
MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES have sought far and wide in their quest for musical fancies to bring forth unto us; and on the very tip of New Zealand’s North Island, they’ve found the bright and excellent pop of The Phoenix Foundation. Yeah, pop can be a dirty word, can’t it? But herein I mean not the millennial …
Track: Field Music release new single ‘Orion from the Street’, plus new tour dates
Perennial Backseat Mafia favourites Field Music, aka Peter and David Brewis are back with a new song, ‘Orion from the street,’, is out now via Memphis Industries and the first glimpse of a new studio album due out later in the year. Of the new track, Peter says “I wrote it in a daze – …
Say Psych: Track Review: Mush – Seven Trumpets
The BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders’ “Next Wave” artist) and 6 Music-tipped art-rock trio Mush have released their new single ‘Seven Trumpets’ this week which is from their upcoming second LP, Lines Redacted, which is out via Memphis Industries on 12 February. Whereas the band’s debut was very much a product of its time, something part-inspired by the political atmosphere of …
TRACK: Mush release new track ‘Blunt Instruments’ ahead of new album
LEEDS-based art-rock trio Mush have shared their new single, “Blunt Instruments”. The track comes along with news of their second album, Lines Redacted, which is set for release on February 12th next year on Memphis Industries. Promoted previously by the likes of BBC 6 Music, Loud & Quiet, Uncut, Q, and more, Mush, comprised of vocalist and guitarist Hyndman, bassist Nick Grant …
TRACK: Stats – ‘Come With Me’: where the Welsh hills bare synthpop dancefloor teeth
AFTER two singles dropped on the drove road through the autumn in the shape of the swirling and funky “Naturalise Me”, and the graceful boy/girl synthpop of “Old Flames”, which we took a butcher’s at here and here, respectively, Ed Seed and his band have decided to bare their dancefloor teeth as they descend the …