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TRACK: Mary Lattimore – ‘Pine Trees’: otherwordly harp delicacy
MARY LATTIMORE, the Los Angeles-based harpist who charms all who enter her graceful, ambient world, has just released the beautiful and glimmering second single from her forthcoming album for Ghostly International, Silver Ladders, which will be out come October 9th. Take a listen with us. She recorded her new one down in Cornwall, adoptive home …
Track: Hinds With Chai release the collaborative track United Girls Rock’n’Roll Club
Spanish quartet Hinds recently collaborated with Tokyo-based Chai on new single UNITED GIRLS ROCK’N’ROLL CLUB. The track is as ebullient and liberating, if not more, than both of the respective bands’ albums or live shows, with the brilliantly uplifting WOAH-OH-WOAH-OH vocals and joyous handclaps. That the track’s vocals are sung in a variety of English, …
SEE: The Last Dinosaur’s ‘Wholeness & The Implicate Order’ now has a short film
THE LAST DINOSAUR is the musical nom-de-plume of Jamie Cameron, of whom we said the following when he first trailed “Wholeness & The Implicate Order” last month; and which we unashamedly reproduce herein. “THERE is out there, in the wide pantheon of pop, a neat little galaxy reserved for the absolute auteur, the sort of …
TRACK: Skinshape – ‘The Sun’: shimmering Afro-Anglo guitars trail fifth LP
SKINSHAPE, the London-by-way-Dorset recording artist, is all set to drop his fifth album for Lewis Recordings on the first Friday in September. If you’ve been over to Skinshape’s world before, you’ll know to expect an interesting peregrination through downtempo, psych, soundtracks, African influences and some pretty damn fine guitar playing. You’ll recognise his warm, reverbed …
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 …