Music
Track: Sinéad O’Connor Shares Cover Of “Trouble Of The World”
Sinéad O’Connor marks her long-awaited return with a stunning interpretation of ‘Trouble Of The World’, via Heavenly Recordings. ‘Trouble Of The World’ a traditional song made famous by exalted gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. In her own words, she explains; “For me the song isn’t about death or dying. More akin, a message of certainty that the human race is on …
Track: Apifera – Énék Hamaguro
Jazz group Apifera shares a new single ‘Énék Hamaguro’ from their debut album Overstand, out 15 January on Stones Throw. The track is an instrumental version of the band’s recent collaboration with funk legend Steve Arrington, for his new album ‘Down To The Lowest Terms: The Soul Sessions’. Apifera says about the track: “This is a homage to our …
NEWS: THE WEDDING PRESENT AND FRIENDS TO RELEASE ALBUM OF BOND THEMES FOR CALM
Come Play With Me proudly presents a collection of 20 Bond themes covered by current and former members of The Wedding Present. This benefit album will be released on Friday 4th December as a double LP (including CD), CD, and digitally. 100% of the profits from its sale will be donated to ‘Campaign Against Living …
Say Psych: Track Review: TRAAMS – Intercontinental Radio Waves
In 2016, with two critically acclaimed albums already released through long-term label FatCat, TRAAMS put out a final – and wonderful – one-off single in ‘A House On Fire’, and then, a handful of touring shows aside: nothing. They didn’t break up, they didn’t announce their hiatus, but after several years as a band came to a head, they …
Say Psych: Track Review: Blanketman – Beach Body
Blanketman return today with new single ‘Beach Body’, produced by Luke Smith (Foals, Depeche Mode, Petite Noir, LIFE). It arrives as the follow-up to their much-heralded debut single ‘Taking You With Me’, which cruelly arrived right after the band performed sold-out live shows just before Lockdown took hold. Over the last year or two the band have …
PREMIERE: hear three tracks from Sorry Eric, outta Ohio on a Flying Nun tip
MARK TWAIN once said, it is noted, about Cincy, The Queen City, out there in Ohio: “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati; because it’s always twenty years behind the times.” C’mon now Mark: great writer you may have been, but is that entirely fair? Well, it’s had it’s …
TRACK: Erland Cooper shares ‘Holm Sound’ ahead of this weekend’s streamed Barbican show
THE DELICATE and psychogeographic recent canon of Orcadian Erland Cooper has, to partially quote Camper Van Beethoven, “increased by exactly one” today, with the release of the gossamer piano yearn of “Holm Sound” ahead of this Saturday’s Barbican performance. He evokes in sound that stretch of water separating Mainland from Barray, adjacent to the village …
Exclusive: Michael Bernard Fitzgerald records ‘I Love That Sound’ in session for Backseat Mafia
With his album ‘Love Valley’ out at the end of the week, we’re delighted that Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Bernard Fitzgerald has recorded an At Home Session exclusively for Backseat Mafia, featuring one of the songs Taken from the album, I love that sound. The album saw Michael make a set of songs that are warm …
Premiere: Cable Street Collective reveal new track featuring Gregg Kofi Brown of Osibisa: ‘Speaking In Tongues’
We’re delighted to premiere the new single from London based 7-piece Cable Street Collective right here on Backseat Mafia here this morning. Titled ‘Speaking in Tongues’, the track features Gregg Kofi Brown from legendary Afro-rockers Osibisa, who also co-write the song. Mixing up Afro rock, Soul and a good deal of sunshine, the track is …
EP: Suuns – Fiction
One thing about all this quarantining and distancing is that we’re being forced to find creative ways to do the things we’ve always done, and this is something that music needed… I mean it was desperately needed. Suuns upcoming release Fiction is a great example of how bands can move forward. The roots of this …