Music
Track: Resplandor – ‘Adore’: exceptional shoegaze from the Netherlands, via Lima
IF YOU love the way shoegaze can really thrill, really transport, with that amazing combination of sweetly abrasive guitar and blurry, beautiful vocals – less the dream pop thing, for all its joys, I mean the real heartwood, that surge and the gleam that can’t help but induce ecstasy – then you really want to …
News: Behemoth sign new contract with Nuclear Blast
HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW STUDIO ALBUM FROM POLISH EXTREME METAL POWERHOUSE DUE THIS AUTUMN BEHEMOTH – arguably the biggest extreme metal band in the world – have extended and expanded their contract with Nuclear Blast, who will now distribute the group’s music worldwide outside of their home country. The group originally signed with Nuclear Blast Europe prior to the release …
Premiere: Nocturnal Animals release the blazing single ‘Articuno Makes Waves’
We are honoured to premiere the new single from Adelaide band Nocturnal Animals, ‘Articuno Makes Waves’, due out on Friday, 19 February 2021. The mysterious masked Nocturnal Animals made their debut last year with the release of four rather tasty singles. ‘Articuno Makes Waves’ is their 2021 reboot and they are upping the ante. A …
Premiere: Damien Binder follows up his indie anthem ‘Here It Is’ with a brilliant and evocative video
Damien Binder‘s anthemic track ‘Here It is’ was recently premiered by Backseat Mafia – in my review I wrote it was an extremely satisfying indie rock track with a hint of swagger and a dash of melancholic yearning. And I naturally wholeheartedly endorse those views. Binder has followed this up with a really clever and …
News: Crowded House announces new album ‘Dreamers are Waiting’ and release exciting new track.
In very exciting news, New Zealand legends Crowded House have made a surprise announcement of a new album called ‘Dreamers are Waiting’. This is their first studio album in more than a decade. This follows the release of the single ‘To The Island’ with its gorgeously shot video infected with the typical humorous style associated …
See: Årabrot’s “Kinks Of The Heart” on display with new clip. [NSFW]
Industrialized post-punk duo Årabrot are certainly having a productive 2021. Ahead of the release of Norwegian Gothic, due out through Pelagic Records on April 9th, the combined direction of Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park dropped a surprise EP earlier in the year. They’ve now released the first video from the new album, a somewhat NSFW …
Track: Juliana Hatfield releases brilliant new single, Mouthful of Blood
Always moving forward, Juliana Hatfield has kept the open ears of her fans full to busting with her releases which veer between the original (Pussycat, Weird) and covers (..sings Olivia Newton-John, …sings the Police). It’s the former with her next collection – Blood, out on May 14th on American Laundromat Records. It’ll be her 19th …
Album Review: FM Einheit orchestrates dreams with “Exhibition Of A Dream.”
Having made mention of KMFDM in a previous review, it would seem that the more euro-centric oddities that are emerging from the winter have made their way into the collective leftfield inbox a lot more than anticipated. That’s fine; when you’ve been asked to take a listen to an album by former Einstürzende Neubauten percussionist …
SEE: Emerson Snowe – ‘Frankenstein’: creepy visuals and Chills-like guitar pop
BRISBANE’S Jarrod M. Mahon disappears down the rabbit hole of indiepop under the dashing name of Emerson Snowe; and he’s just released a first taster of an EP, out later this year. The track’s entitled “Frankenstein”, it’s a rather lovely slice of breezy indie, leaning out of the Chills nexus towards 1968; and you can …
Premiere: Tim Kile releases the affecting indie pop of ‘My Medicine’
Out today is ‘My Medicine, the fifth single to be taken from the forthcoming debut album ‘These things are being gathered for the fire’, from former Wild Light and Arcade Fire co-founder Tim Kile, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Although its a beautifully affecting slice …