Music
New Music: London post-rock band Nonta release new single, Pulse
London post-rock indie band Nonta make the kind of atmospheric music that has you screaming Daughter and Sigur Ros (well, maybe not screaming, more fervently whispering). Ahead of their forthcoming debut EP Pulse, the band have shared the title track. It cracks through the silence, layers of intertwining guitars, glockenspiel and cello, its woody beauty …
News: The Lemonheads head to the UK next week
Legendary alt-rockers The Lemonheads return to the UK and Ireland this October, their first dates in almost three years. Led by 90’s magazine pin-up Evan Dando, the band formed way back in 1986 but found success hard to come by until Dando met Tom Morgan and Nic Dalton in Australia in 1991. It was essentially …
News: 6 Organs Of Admittance to reissue Dust and Chimes
Released on vinyl for the very first time this October is 1999’s Dust and Chimes from 6 Organs of Admittance. Fresh from appearing at Supersonic festival in Birmingham, new listeners are given the opportunity to revisit these early works on a more suitably “retro” format. The early 6 Organs sound is not a huge departure from now, …
Track: JATA – Ebony
If you’ve not yet wrapped your ears round Berlin-based producer Jata, you’re in for a treat. The former hip-hop DJ and University Jazz student showed he had a knack of writing elector earworms with his last EP, Bells, and from his new one, the slightly unimaginatively titled Bells 2 EP, he’s released ‘Ebony’. The track …
Not Forgotten: Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Every now and again you encounter an act whose entire aesthetic appeals to you. From his gorgeous gatefold CD artwork, to his live presence, Father John Misty’s combination of classic singer songwriter stance and soulful rootsy vibe strikes a chord with those of us who would really like them to make albums like they used …
Not Forgotten – Mick Ronson – Slaughter on 10th Avenue
I will always argue that Mick Ronson is always massively short changed in any assessment of the career of David Bowie. Without Ronson’s arrangement acumen, iconic guitar heroics and unerring sense for what made for great rock and roll dynamics, Bowie would have been little more than a cult artist, rather than the international mega …
Track: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Trapdoor
You’ll know if you read Backseat Mafia at all regularly (and why wouldn’t you?) that we love the seven piece Melbourne psych jugganaut King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Their latest album, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, is due out on November 13th via ATO Records and from it comes a new track, Trapdoor. It’s got …
Album Review: Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down
Kurt Vile comes off as a bit of a mystery at first. You listen to the guy as he mumbles and shrugs his way through a song, surrounded by some really great music. You wonder is this guy for real? You listen some more and little details, shaded nuances, and sly phrases begin to make …
Track: Lyla Foy releases the intimate ‘Right to Be’
There’s an innocence and delicacy about London singer-songwriter Lyla Foy’s voice, even when it’s ŵrapped up in echo and draped over a tingling Cocteau Twins backing, such as in Right To Be, taken from her upcoming EP UMI, the follow up to last years Mirrors the Sky. It’s a shadowy and lo-Fi affair, but the …
News: Edsel to Reissue five Comsat Angels albums with extras
Sheffield quartet The Comsat Angels were perhaps always the bridesmaids, never the brides. Whether it was that their brand of Post-Punk was always that little to bleak, and the angst contained within was a little to heartbreaking for the wider public, that instead latched onto the likes of U2, the Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes …