Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Everything is Recorded – Friday Forever

I tend to view concept albums with suspicion so when XL chief Richard Russell’s Everything is Recorded project landed in our inbox, complete with explanation that here was an exploration…

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Premiere: Sail by Summer release brilliant new video for Lowlowlow

Duo Sail by Summer – Norwegian Grammy winner William Hut and his Danish collaborator Jens Kristian have released a new video for their track Lowlowlow. It comes ahead of their…

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Album Review: CMON – Confusing mix of Nations

“When I moved to New York, a lot of people were making really interesting electronic music and manipulating sounds, and I was really kind of bummed—there were no songs. And…

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Track: Household Dogs – Ain’t No Heaven

Leeds post-punks Household Dogs are back with their first new music of the year in the shape of a single, ‘Ain’t no Heaven’. It’s a gorgeous slice of slowcore indie,…

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Track: Close Lobsters – Godless

Out on April 10th is the latest single from long standing indie pop band Close Lobsters, via Last Night from Glasgow Records. It’s the second single to be taken from…

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Track: Boy Azooga cover Jim Sullivan’s U.F.O.

While busy writing the follow up to 2018’s 1,2 Kung Fu!, Boy Azooga have still found time to release a stand alone single version of cult U.S. singer -songwriter Jim…

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Premiere: Sky Keller – High & Hurt

Los-Angeles based singer songwriter Sky Keller is today releasing her latest single ‘High & Hurt’, and we’re delighted to be premiering it here on Backseat Mafia. Of the track Sky…

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See: Braids reveal new video for Snow Angel

Despite putting their album ‘Shadow Offering’ back to June 19th, Montreal based indie trio Braids continue to tease the release, this time with a new video for the track ‘Snow…

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See: Hanni El Khatib releases new video for Alive

Building up to the release of his fifth album ‘Flight’ on May 15th via Innovative Lesiure, Hanni El Khatib has released a new video for the track Alive taken from…

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Track: Holy Hive – Broom

Ahead of the release of their album ‘Float Back To You’, Holy Hive – aka Homer Steinweiss, the Brooklyn based soul-funk drumming staple and sometime Daptone, Paul Spring, a young…

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