Music
Track: Ascendo – Something Sweeter EP
Wakefield indie rock quartet Ascendo hit the ground running with their debut release Something Sweeter – a two track EP featuring tracks Pixie Dust and Pink Gin and Lemonade. The former – Pixie Dust takes the spirit of that wave of Sheffield bands – the Arctic Monkeys, Milburn and the like with this jagged singalonga-indie …
Track: Mt. Wolf – Tayrona feat. Tamsin Wilson
Dream folk pioneers Mt. Wolf have been quiet for the last few years, but have now teamed up with vocalist and guitarist Tamsin Wilson for a new EP, the first sight of which comes in the shape of a new single, Tayrona. Of the collaboration, Tamsin said “The instrumental track lead me to think of …
Track: An Early Bird – One Kiss Broke The Promise
Backseat Mafia have been ardent supporters of Stefano De Stefano ever since reviewing his first band Pipers back in our early days in 2014, through to his debut album ‘Of Ghosts and Marvels’ under the name An Early Bird reviewed by us in 2018. De Stefano has developed quite a presence in Italy where he …
TRACK: FALLE NIOKE & GHOST CULTURE – BARKÉ
FALLE NIOKE is a singer and percussionist from Guinea Conakry, West Africa. He sings in French, English, Susu, Fulani and Malinke, and plays a range of African instruments. Collaborator Ghost Culture aka James Greenwood is one of the few electronic producers Nioke has teamed up with since moving to the UK and signing with Prah recordings. Falle …
Track: Junk Drawer – What I’ve Learned / What I’m learning
Belfast quartet Junk Drawer are gearing up to the release of their debut album ‘Ready for the House’, out on April 24th via Art For Blind with a new track and the albums opening gambit ‘What I’ve Learned / What I’m Learning’. Of it, co-vocalist Steve says “The title comes from the Dunning-Kruger Effect – …
Say Psych: Premiere: Servo – I
French three-piece Servo deal in the kind of dark, psychedelic noise-rock that storms with ease between gloomy, hypnotic moments and bouts of powerful, unrelenting noise. With a string of singles, EPs and their 2016 debut The Lair of Gods behind them, the Rouen-based band are today announcing their signing to London-based label Fuzz Club for …
ALBUM REVIEW: THUNDERCAT – IT IS WHAT IT IS.
Is there anyone since the turn of the new millennium as influential as Stephen Lee Bruner, a.k.a Thundercat? Proudly toted as a corner of the Brainfeeder family, Thundercat’s influence can be heard throughout some of the more soulful releases of 21st-century hip-hop and R&B, from Frank Ocean and Tyler The Creator to Childish Gambino and …
Track: The Milltown Brothers – Stockholm
Colne, Lancashire band The Milltown Brothers showed their hand with the brilliant ’Slinky’ album almost 30 years ago, with a string of brilliant singles – Which way should i jump / Apples Green and the like. Sporadically active since, but nothing since 2005’s self-released Long Road. Now though, they’re back. A fifth album is in …
Track: Jenny Hval – Bonus Material
Photo credit: Jenny Berger Myhre Jenny Hval, the enchanting Norwegian multidisciplinary artist has released a strand alone single – Bonus Material, following on from last years acclaimed ‘The Practise of Love’ album, which came out on Sacred Bones. “It is an unfinished track about unfinished substances leaking into one another,” says Hval. “Trash practicing love.” It’s beautiful and …
Track: Gogo Penguin – Kora
Taken from their forthcoming self-titled album, out on June 5th via legendary Jazz label Blue Note, Manchester’s Mercury Prize winning trio Gogo Penguin have released a new track, ‘Kora’, named after the remarkable African Stringed instrument. Chris illingworth from the band, explains: ”People often ask us where we get our inspiration from when writing new music. …