Music
See: Idles reveal new video for Model Village
Idles have released “Model Village”, the latest single from their 3rd LP Ultra Mondo, a commentary on life in a small town. The video, made of cardboard cutouts like something from South Park, features pig-like humans doing what we humans do, bashing each other, drinking, running around headless living the lives we’re supposed to live. …
See: Kraków Loves Adana share new single & video – ‘Don’t Ask Why’
Ahead of their album ‘Darkest Dreams’ released on September 25th via the Italians Do It Better imprint, Kraków Loves Adana have released a new video for their latest release from the album ‘Don’t Ask Why’. Speaking about the track, Kraków Loves Adana vocalist Deniz Çiçek said, “There have been moments in my life where I felt safest in my own darkness, isolated …
Say Psych: Album Review: L.A. Witch – Play With Fire
Californian trio L.A. Witch are back with a new album, Play With Fire, which is released tomorrow on Suicide Squeeze Records. Their self-titled debut album unfurled like hazy memories of late night revelries in the city centre creeping back in on a hungover Sunday morning. Guitarist/vocalist Sade Sanchez purred and crooned over jangling guitar chords, …
See: Darkstar celebrate venues in new video for ‘Blurred’
Taken from last months brilliant Civic Jams album, out via Warp Records, Darkstar have released a new video for closing track ‘Blurred’. Partly vocal, or at least sampled vocals and electronics, blurred is this hazy, beautiful vignette of a piece, as waves of the overlapping sounds lap against your ears in a calming, edifying way. …
Track: Daughters frontman Alexis Marshall reveals debut solo track ‘Nature In Three Movements’
Daughters frontman Alexis Marshall has stepped out from his band to release his first solo track, ‘Nature in Three Movements’. Although a standalone single, it was recorded along with a bunch of other songs that will make up his debut solo album. Marshall describes the recording process as “the painstaking process of creating and honoring, …
Premiere: Exclusive album stream for Philly indie rockers Maps & His Mothball Fleet’s ‘Gulf’
Out tomorrow on Azteca Records is the new album from Philadelphia indie rockers Maps & His Mothball Fleet. Titled Gulf, it focuses on post-pandemic way of life, distance and relationships and we’re absolutely delighted to exclusively stream the album right here today on Backseat Mafia. Of the record, the bands leader Matt Wanamaker told us …
ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – ‘Long Division: New Addition Vol.2’: ten of the Wakefield fest’s best
WAKEFIELD’S Long Division Festival – now that’s a lovely little (and these days, really not so little) event in the West Yorkshire musical calendar. It was founded back in 2011 by the fanzine Rhubarb Bomb; festival director Dean Freeman cashed in his NHS pension to fund a happening that celebrated the pool of musical talent …
Premiere: Silent Attic release new single ‘Take My Time’
Following on from recent single Hide Away, German indie quartet Silent Attic have returned with a new track, Take My Time, that we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia today. Both tracks come from the bands upcoming EP Escape, which is out on October 2nd. Take My Time is the story of a …
TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘Vasto’: first album for 20 years in November
AS UNEXPECTED developments in the world of eerie electronica go, the announcement of a new album for winter 2020 by Sheffield game-changers Cabaret Voltaire has to be up there. And it’s true: with Richard H Kirk the sole remaining member, the Cabs have announced that Mute will be releasing Shadow Of Fear on November 20th. …
Album Review: Fantastic Negrito – Have you lost your mind yet?
As, so as we live through these divisive socio-political days with polarising political figures at the helm and the rights of everyone at the forefront of people’s minds and protests, so art reflects that. In the same way, in differing times but similar unrest came the likes of (amongst others) Sam Cooke singing ‘A Change …