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Droppin’ Knowledge: 03CAS, Hip Hop’s Monet, Creates Painterly, Impressionistic Music That Defies Easy Categorization
When the musician and experimental hip hop iconoclast 03CAS emigrated from South Africa to the United Kingdom, he landed at London’s Heathrow Airport with little more than the clothes on his back. “It was the first time I was on a plane,” recalled the artist, born Caleb Mateus, as he recently recounted his early days …
Premiere: Grasscut reveal new video for ‘Human Estuary’; see it first, here
Brighton duo Grasscut have recently followed up their 2015 album ‘Everyone Was A Bird‘, with another spoken word exploration of Britain with the mini-lp Haunts, out now on the ever brilliant Lo Recordings. From it, we’re absolutely delighted to be able to premiere the video for Human Estuary right here on Backseat Mafia today. The …
News: As bdrmm blow out the first birthday candle on the release of ‘Bedroom’ there’s a series of celebratory events, starting tonight
WITH East Yorkshire’s shoegaze princes bdrmm blowing out the candle on the first birthday cake of their cracking debut album, Bedroom, the band have lined up a week of events to celebrate that milestone (what, already, a year, really?) When Bedroom hit the shelves on July 3rd last year, we noted that its songs were …
The brilliant Rival Consoles drops the echoing summer chatter of ‘Pulses Of Information’ and announces live dates
WITH a series of British live dates coming up across the autumn – for details of those, pop down the page a little – the brilliant Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, has dropped a new summery slice of his characteristically chattering, atmospheric electronica; it’s entitled “Pulses Of Information”, and you can delight in it …
News: Andy Bell announces his GLOK debut album proper; dive into the electro gleam of ‘Maintaining The Machine’
HAVING released a series of vinyl format singles, the Ever Decreasing Circles triptych, following his superb album from last autumn for Sonic Cathedral, The View From Halfway Down, and also last year’s Dissident Remixed set of rerubs from his electronic alter-ego GLOK, Andy Bell has proved himself as industrious as he is ever curious and …
Premiere: New Zealand’s Voodoo Bloo reveal explosive, unhinged sledgehammer of a video for ‘MMA’
Back in May, Backseat Mafia reviewed the new single from Voodoo Bloo – essentially the work of Rory McDonald (Sheffield born but Wellington resident). We are honoured to be able to bring to you an exclusive first viewing of the accompanying video to this blistering track. And it is absolutely on fire. We wrote that …
See: koleżanka takes empathetic flight with the lush, modular indie of ‘In A Meeting’
KRISTINA MOORE it is who guises as koleżanka for her particular lusciously free, electronica- and folksily informed guitar music; and the New York-via-deepest Arizona songstress will surely be tempting her into your world via the conduit of her debut album, set for release at the end of July. Combining elements of retrotronica, a lo-fi modular …
News: Hear a first track as Field Works announce a companion to the arboreally beautiful ‘Cedars’ entitled ‘Maples, Ash, And Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals’
BACK in spring we both reviewed and adored an album from Field Works: less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient, all overseen by Indianapolis multidisciplinary artist and …
Album review: Zoee releases new album ‘Flaw Flower’ and it’s a beautifully imperfect art-pop bouquet
Flaw Flower is the exciting debut LP from London-based musician Zoee, out now via Illegal Data. The new, solo record follows previous collaborations with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and hyper-pop collective PC Music, as well as prior single releases via Ryan Hemsworth’s Secret Songs imprint and Vegyn’s label Plz Make It Ruins. Over the …
See: Adelaide’s Teenage Joans release a dynamic video for the effervescent single ‘Wine’, and announce Australian tour
Adelaide duo Teenage Joans mix a hard edge guitar drive with scaling choruses and exuberant melodies in their single ‘Wine’. Steeped in an unashamed Australian accent expressed through vocals that range from emotive, whiskey-soaked rawness to celestial heights, ‘Wine’ is a satisfying mix of grunge and sixties pop sensibilities with lyrics that reflect youth and …