Music
See: Hey Sholay release video for Eyes For Me
Perhaps one of Sheffield’s most mysterious bands, Hey Sholay have walked a curious path, disappearing for months before enchanting a festival crowd and disappearing once more. It’s been two years since they’ve officially released any music; their Cloud, Castle, _____ EP was the highlight for many back in 2013, but now the peculiar band have finally returned with …
Track: La Luz – Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere, plus October tour dates
In 2013 they released their debut album, had a high-speed car accident and then returned to tour like the troopers they are. Now self-styled ‘surf-noir’ Seattle band La Luz are back with a new track from their forthcoming second album. Don’t Wanna Be Anywhere is the second single from Weirdo Shrine and has all the twanging …
Track: Kate Boy – Midnight Sun
We finally have news of the debut Kate Boy album – it’s called ONE and is due to be released in November via Fiction/Island/Iamsound. More good news – they’ve shared new track Midnight Sun and it is electro-pop perfection. Maybe it’s just that I’ve been hooked on stories featuring artificial intelligence recently (Humans, Ex Machina…I …
Track: Demob Happy – Wash It Down
Demob Happy’s frontman Matt Marcantonio says “apathy has been encouraged” in the current music market, but thankfully his band sounds anything but indifferent on blazing new track Wash It Down. This single is taken from the Brighton quartet’s eagerly awaited debut album, due out later this year, and follows the well-deserved hype surrounding previous single …
Track: Evvol – Eternalism
Producing what has been described as noir-moodscapes the Berlin based duo ‘Evvol’ release ‘Eternalism’ an emotive journey through cool layered vocals that glide over electronic and live band arrangements. Eternalism is the first album for the duo under the new moniker Evvol, Julie Chance & Jon Dark previously known as Kool have already well crafted their sound …
TOUR: Skindred Announce November UK Headline Tour
Newport “Reggae Rockers” Skindred have announced the Pump Up The Volume tour in support of new album Volume. After a successful run supporting Steel Panther on their spring tour, headline slots at the Hit The Deck and Camden Rocks festivals and appearances at various European festivals already this year, Skindred are ready to smash the …
EP: Wozniak – Auster
Here at Backseat Mafia, we’ve been long time admirers of Scottish Post-Rock/Shoegazers Wozniak. The Edinburgh four piece have a new EP, titled Auster, out now via the bands bandcamp page, and its another step forward for the band. Opening track Snow Effect marries this buzzsaw guitar line with another – echoey, almost tinny sounding one, …
Track: Danny McLauchlan – Enough
Taken from his forthcoming EP, due for release early next year, comes a new song – Enough, from London producer/singer-songwriter Danny McLaughlan. From the beginning’s gentle electronics it’s slow, delicate and very beautiful songwriting. Blessed with simple but lovely lyrics and similar synth lines that give it this innocence, it meanders along. As it does …
Album Review: The Rubs – The Rubs Are Trash
If, after you’ve listened to Hard Enough, the opening track on Chicago Garage Rockers The Rubs (essentially the solo project of a certain Joey Rubbish, in that he sings, writes all the songs and plays all the instruments on the record), then you’re a better person than I. Surrounding himself with Chicago’s finest DIY Garage …
Soundtrack of Our Lives: Inkubus Sukkubus
Inkubus Sukkubus were formed in 1989 by Tony McKormack and Candia Ridley (now McKormack) whilst both were studying graphic design in Gloucester. Tony and Candia shared a love of paganism, witchcraft and vampirism so their music was always going to be an expression of this… and oh boy is it ever! They have released no …