ALBUM REVIEW: Keys – ‘Home Schooling’: lo-fi Welsh powerpop gems
COMING at you out of the Welsh capital Cardiff, Keys are a quintet who, we can glean from their photograph, love a pair of shades. A listen to their new…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Siv Jakobsen – ‘A Temporary Soothing’: fashioning a gem of folk delicacy from the lived experience
SIV JAKOBSEN, who grew up on the south-western edge of the wider Oslo conurbation, is a folk artist who is really is singing from the heart. Hailing from the fjordside…
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TRACK: Magick Mountain – ‘Infinity X2’: a garage-punk rush outta Leeds
LEEDS’ psychedelic scuzz-rock power trio Magick Mountain have been around the block a bit to get to a place of infinity times two. Singer Lins Wilson has found the ideal…
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Meet: We chat to Salarymen plus review their sparkling single ‘Runaway’
Out of the depths of a Sydney winter (a rather benign concept, I admit), Salarymen have released an absolutely delightful ray of sunshine in the form of the single ‘Runaway’.…
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Album Review: SERA – When I Wake Up
Sera Zyborska, has written an 11-track album incorporating the best of folk, roots and Americana, to create a haunting work of creation. Working and writing with producer Andi Crutwell-Jones, the…
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See: Mines Falls release video for single ‘Hey Mother’
L.A. duo Mines Falls at a pair of brothers who work in film and design during the day, and make moody electro heavy pop music by night. Ahead of their…
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See: Greentea Peng releases new video for ‘Hu Man’
Over the last few months, South London singer-songwriter Greentea Peng has quickly become a favourite of ours here on Backseat Mafia, so we jumped on her new single Hu Man,…
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Track: Callum Easter releases new song – Tell em Boy
Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Less Bells – ‘Mourning Jewelry’: absolutely affecting drone-post classical forged in loss
JULIE CARPENTER, who records for Texas’ home of boundary-pushing out-rock and drone beauty Kranky, has journeyed from musical academia at the University of North Texas, through session work as a…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Paul Molloy – ‘The Fifth Dandelion’: psych-pop sunshine beamed forward from ’68
SOMEONE put music journalist and band connections-mapper Pete Frame on speed dial, because the various groovy psych-pop iterations spiralling off from The Wirral’s The Coral are like a Mandelbrot set…
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