Music
Track: Slime – Hot Dog, plus album news
Multi instrumentalist Will Archer is preparing to release his debut album, Company, under his Slime nom-de-plume. The Newcastle born multi-instrumentalist and producer recorded the record over two years, it was eventually realised when Archer went to a rabbit warren of a studio in Hackney, where the album was whittled down from the near 400 tracks …
Table Scraps : More Time For Strangers
Birmingham, England’s Table Scraps are a duo that sound like more than the sum of their parts. The racket they make on their debut album More Time For Strangers is that of a Gothic Ty Segall; a hollowed-out, ghostly Stooges haunting Blue Cheer on some abandoned, dilapidated Michigan farm. This is dark, bellowing garage rock coming from …
Psych Insight: EP Review – Array 1 by Loop
When the Pixies released the first of their three EPs after a prolonged absence, back in 2013, many suspected that the decision to stagger their new material was deliberately made to circumvent the critical emphasis that would have been inevitably placed on the songs, had they been released together in the traditional album format. It’s …
Meet: Interview With Auction For The Promise Club
The indie trio Auction for the Promise Club may come from a beautiful beach town in Cornwall (St. Agnes) with a vibrant music scene, but if you are expecting laid-back Beach Boys tributes or upbeat sunshiny summer party music, think again. With the punchy, brooding lilt of singer and guitarist Zoe White Chambers’ voice and Perran Tremewan’s Muse-like inky guitar, they …
Meet: Matt Bigland from Dinosaur Pile-Up interview
We’ve been much taken recently with 11:11, the lead single and title track from Leeds rock trio Dinosaur Pile-Up’s third album. A mixture of rock and old school Seattle grunge, the band have built a big following through riff and melody heavy tunes, and well recieved albums Growing Pains (2010) and 2013’s Nature Nurture. We …
Track: Quantic – Creation (East L.A.) plus album news
We’ve long had a thing for Quantic, aka British born producer Will Holland. He moved through so many areas of electronic music during his years, and has spent the last handful of years studying and immersing himself in the music of South America, Africa and the Caribbean, producing a handful of brilliant (and often collaborative …
Track: The Districts – Chlorine, plus Summer festival dates
Coming off the back of a run of UK shows, which included a sold out date at London’s Scala, as well as a contender for an album of the year with the brilliant A Flourish and A Spoil, Philadelphia quartet The Districts return with a new single, Chlorine. Out on July 17th via Fat Possum, …
Exclusive: Backseat Mafia Podcast 005 – Web Sheldon
Web Sheldon is an electronic singer, songwriter and producer originally from Sheffield, now based in London. With a long history of acoustic singing / song writing, the music he writes has a strong emphasis on vocals and lyrics, with rhythmic flows and harmonies sung over beats and influences from hip hop and world music through …
Album Review: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – The High Country
Springfield, Missouri five piece Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, despite the fantastic name, were a band that had largely passed me by. So reviewing The High Country, the bands fourth album – out now on Polyvinyl, was a voyage of discovery for me. As it turns out it was a very enjoyable journey as …
Meet: Lisbon – Lead singer Matthew Varty interviewed
One of the North East’s finest, Lisbon, stop off on their first headline tour of the UK to chat to me ahead of their Sheffield gig at The Rocking Chair. Lead singer Matthew Varty chats Whitley Bay, Westeros and what’s in a name… WARNING – CONTAINS “GAME OF THRONES” SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5!!! Backseat Mafia: …