See: We Melt Chocolate – Blue Hair Girl
Florentine band We Melt Chocolate are an indelible part of Italy’s explosive indie music scene along with bands like Unruly Girls, Rev Rev Rev and the many magnificent psych bands covered recently on Backseat Mafia’s series on Italian psych music. We Melt Chocolate have just released an engrossing video for the song ‘Blue Hair Girl’ …
Album Review: Tim Burgess – I Love The New Sky
If it wan’t enough that Tim Burgess fronts one of the most beloved, successful and long lasting indie bands The Charlatans, or that he has singularly redefined music in the COVID-19 age of isolation through his now legendary twitter parties, Burgess has now released an absolutely stunning solo album. And let’s get one thing straight, …
EP: The Know – wearetheknow
The Know consist of husband and wife duo Daniel Knowles and Jennifer Farmer. Knowles had previously worked as a producer and guitarist for UK shoegaze band Amusement Parks on Fire. This pedigree shows. Their new EP, ‘wearetheknow’, out now through those purveyors of extremely high quality music, Shore Dive Records is an indelible, sparkling release that …
Premiere: Garsa – The Devil’s Own
After releasing a stunning debut earlier this year, (‘Jimmy sour highs‘) solo artist Martin Garside, operating under the name Garsa, is back with another perfect slice of dream pop/ shoegaze in ‘The Devil’s Own’, which Backseat Mafia is proud to premiere. This is a beautiful release, infused with an air of wistfulness and yearning and …
Track: IDLES – Mr Motivator
IDLES lead the way in explosive passionate punk, and we here at Backseat Mafia have always closely followed their upward trajectory with the greatest of joy. Now, deep in the arms of general world misery, they have released a thundering, joyous single ‘Mr Motivator’ replete with a video that that shows while we are apart, …
Track: Richard’s Orchestra – Amazing Sunrise
In the midst of the rather oppressive age of isolation, Italian band Richard’s Orchestra have released a single that is infused with a sense of bucolic joy – fitting given the band comes from the gorgeous area of Reggio Emilia. ‘Amazing Sunrise’ is a trippy, psychedelic song, seemingly born out of the sixties, haunting and …
Track: Moon Panda – Slow Drive
Moon Panda follow up last month’s delicious ‘Rick F***in Dalton’ with another tasty slice of ethereal dream pop with the single ‘Slow Drive’. Singer Maddie Myers’s voice floats and glides over a bubbling surface of shard-like guitars and synths, mesmerising and hypnotic: ‘Slow Drive’ captures that hard to remember feeling of roaming freely along country …
Track: Silverbacks – Muted Gold
Quirky and bubbly, angular and slightly off-kilter: Dublin’s Silverbacks have released a fantastic new single ‘Muted Gold’ that is eccentric, bold and highly enjoyable. Think of Talking Heads (maybe more Tom Tom Club), Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend with the slightly unhinged singing and idiosyncratic guitar picking style that I always associate with the late …
Premiere: Unruly Girls – Black Love (Video)
Backseat Mafia is very honoured to premiere today the phenomenal new video by Italian band Unruly Girls. ‘Black Love’ is off their recently released album ‘Epidemic’ – an album I rated a 9.1 out of 10 – and is a typically unhinged, anarchic and thundering production, yet is antithetically tinged with a sense of poignancy. …
Track: The Wednesday Night – The Perfect Scene
There’s been an awful lot of good stuff coming out recently – maybe it’s something to do with the age of isolation – but the new single ‘The Perfect Scene’ by Sydney’s The Wednesday Night has ever so gently nudged its way forward to take its place as one of my favourite releases of the …