Music
Premiere: BAIRD releases new single, ‘Sunken Place’
London based dance-pop artist BAIRD has today released his international music debut with a single and accompanying video, Sunken Place, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Growing up between Canada, Berlin and London with an Irish background gave BAIRD the opportunity to gather together cultures, influences as well as …
Track: Pom Poko release new single, ‘Andrew’
The Norwegian punk-pop extraordinaires’ creative wizardry, very much cemented with their astounding debut LP Birthday, continues with new single Andrew. The single allows a welcome sense of familiarity with it’s fusion of dulcified vocal and guitar melodies, combined with their unique rhythmic sensibilities and galvanic ruptures. However, Andrew also signals a massively creative leap into …
Track: Napalm Death share second single ‘Amoral’
UK Grindcore pioneers Napalm Death will be releasing their new studio album ‘Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism’ on September 18th, 2020 via Century Media Records. In celebration of the album’s release, a new single has been shared by the band – ‘Amoral’ Napalm Death’s vocalist Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway gave a comment about the song …
See: TV Coma release new video for single ‘Congratulations’
Brighton based power-pop trio TV Coma have released a new single, Congratulations, recounting a fiery farewell with a former lover, and to go with it they’ve released an accompanying video to go with it. Of the track TV Coma’s vocalist Leo says “It’s about the unexplored paradigms of modern relationships. As the first humans to …
Track: Coheed and Cambria – Jessie’s Girl 2
Modern rock storytellers Coheed and Cambria have teamed up with Grammy Award-winning singer Rick Springfield in the sequel to one of the most iconic stories in rock ‘n’ roll history with ‘Jessie’s Girl 2’. The track, which finds the two extending the narrative of the 1980’s smash hit ‘Jessie’s Girl’ Coheed and Cambria vocalist / guitarist Claudio Sanchez wonders, “has anyone ever written …
Track: Metallica and San Francisco Symphony share ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls (Live)’ taken from forthcoming album S&M2
With the release of their album S&M2 due August 28th, Metallica & San Francisco Symphony have shared the final taste of the live album with the video of track – ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls (Live)’. Recorded at The Chase Center in San Francisco in September 2019, the shows seen Metallica reunited with Symphony for the first time since the 1999 performances captured …
RSD2020: Album Review: Dune Soundtrack
Out on August 29th for Record Store Day is a new pressing of Toto’s score for the 1984 fantasy science fiction film, Dune, the epic tales of a time – 10191 to be exact, when the planet Arrakis – home to the most valuable substance in the universe, melange, has caused the Harkonnens to violently …
EP: Troye Sivan – In A Dream
Fans of Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan who have been there from the start will have seen the evolution of an artist, from the early YouTube videos to the early Eps June Haverly and TRXYE. The trilogy of videos from his debut long player Blue Neighbourhood as well as his coming out video have made him an LGBT icon. The second …
Track: Emmy the Great reveals new single ‘Mary’
Following on from the news that Emmy the Great is to release her new album April / 月音 on October 9th via Bella Union, she has followed up recent single Dandelions / Liminal with a new track, Mary. Of the track Emmy says: “Mary is named for a Hong Kong fortune teller I met in Kowloon, who gave me the wrong fortune …
PREMIERE: Babe, Terror – ‘Salina Lumen’: Caretaker-style eerieness from a locked-down São Paulo
BABE, TERROR, the nom-de-musique of São Paulo’s Claudio Szynkier, is a serious sort of name. That juxtaposition: your babe, your loved one, terror. Oh. … but then these are serious times, and if you think we’ve got it bad in the UK currently, then try the Brazil of the Brazil of an emergent populist, Covid-denying …