Music
SEE: the rage of Stone’s ‘Stay Silent’, live from Liverpool
STONE: solid, unyielding, hard. It’s pretty much the perfect name for the Liverpudlian band that have picked up a dazzled DJ fan in the shape of Radio One’s Jack Saunders, who’s championed them all through the crawl-those-walls caging of the Covid lockdown. But they’re back or rather, they’re unleashed; they’re full-on and they’re ready to …
Premiere: Tanzos releases new visuals for ‘Birdy’
Austrian Indie rocker Mik Tanzos trades under his surname, and recently released a new single ‘Birdy’ – the follow up to his debut track ‘How Do You Want Me?’. We’re delighted to premiere the accompanying visuals right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Tanzos says “Birdy tells the story of a couple´s life …
SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021
MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop of “Berlin” – we’ve embedded it, below. And it really is a great record: we’ve embraced its taut, breathtaking funk and its intelligent pop and …
Album: BOB – You Can Stop That For A Start
I recall a time in the late eighties and early nineties where one could venture out to see a band and BOB were almost always the support act! One of the hardest working bands at the time (possibly only Mega City 4 hit the road more often), BOB toured everywhere on an endless crusade to …
See: FKA Twigs Teams up with filmmaker Hiro Murai for visuals for ‘Sad Day’
FKA Twigs has teamed up with acclaimed filmmaker Hiro Murai to produce a seven minute fantasy film to accompany her track Sad Day, one of the stand out moments from her recent second album Magdalene. It’s Murai’s first music video since his rightly lauded visuals for Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’. As ever with FKA …
Track: Mint Field release new single ‘Delicadeza’ ahead of album release
Following on from their Neu! meets Spaceman 3 like psychedelic rock and krautrock cocktail ‘Contingencia, Mint Field have delivered us mere mortals another offering off their upcoming sophomore album ‘Sentimiento Mundial‘ on Felte Records due 25 September with ‘Delicadeza’.Produced by Syd Kemp and featuring Callum Brown of Ulrika Spacek on drum duties, ‘Delicadeza’ from the …
See: Yore drops new video for the grunge-tinted shoegaze of ‘Bon Mot’
A heady dose of lo-fi, grunge-tinted shoegaze, Yore have dropped the debut single ‘Bon Mot’ off of the self-titled debut album set for release December 4 via FLAT FIVE Records. The new exciting project from one of the busiest people in music today, being Hackney Wick based multi-instrumentalist Callum Brown (Ulrika Spacek, Mint Field, Josefin …
Meet: The Damned’s Captain Sensible talks new EP, plants, bees, and a world beyond lockdown
Raymond Ian Burns, known more commonly as Captain Sensible from the seminal punk band The Damned has, like the most of us, had a lot of time on his hands lately. Luckily, he happened to spare some of that free time to have a little chat with us about their new The Rockfield Files EP, …
Soundtrack of our Lives: Pixy Jones of El Goodo
YOU MAY not have taken a dive into an El Goodo album; that, I’m afraid, may be a flaw entirely laid at your own door. OK, they don’t work to a Tin Pan Alley rhythm – there’s only been three albums since their eponymous debut for Super Furries’ Placid Casual imprint in 2005, the most …
EP: Jeremy D’Antonio – Spinnin’ Wheels
Out now is the debut solo release from former Tiny Television and San Geronimo man Jeremy D’Antonio, Spinnin’ Wheels. He’s accompanied by musicians from the Buck Owens band (and ended up playing with Merle Haggard) which, according to Jeremy, “came to fruition because of studio owner John Macy and has been in the country music …