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Track: Dutch Neo-Soul Riser ROSEYE Shine On New Single ‘Sacred’

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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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Track: Nottingham Indie-Pop Risers Express Office Portico Unveil New Single ‘He Said She Said’

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Portsmouth songwriter and producer Tom Wells has been on our radar for a while, since last November in fact when he released his single ‘The English Way’, taken from his forthcoming EP, out later in the year. Focusing on men’s mental health, and encouraging people to speak out about their feelings instead of suffering in …

IF MARISSA NADLER, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan light up your world with otherworldly folk fire – and if they don’t, then maybe we can’t be friends after all – then you really need to take a seat right this minute, and be astonished by Australian folk artist Indigo Sparke, who’s recently inked on …

AMY DOUGLAS WHITE is a Los Angelino by adoption, by way of Madrid, where she was raised the child of American parents. She’s got form in the music biz, serving for three years behind the keyboard in LA’s suitably trippy West Indian Girl and contributing background vocals to M83’s seminal single, “Midnight City”. She’s stepped …

The release of “Satanic Magick Attack”, is the 1st song taken from their upcoming 3rd studio album, “Cursed Be Thy Kingdom”, that is set for a release on April 16th, 2021. Watch here: When one finds themselves at the proverbial crossroads – face to face with the Devil himself – who wouldn’t choose the left hand …

Gracie Souz, aka Grace Strickland de Souza – of alt-pop band KIN, has struck out on her own for a new debut EP, Better in Space. From it we’re delighted to premiere the new video for the track Brian Cox right here on Backseat Mafia this morning, ahead of its release this coming Friday (29th …

The North East’s atmospheric melody maker, Travis Shaw, has started the year off with his first release – ‘Refuge’ Regarding the track Shaw comments: “The single is about going inside yourself to find peace and heal. I wrote the song when I was struggling a lot and searching for answers/coping mechanisms. Over the years I’ve …

SIC ALPS were one of those bands which, with the amount of the talent in its ranks, could only burn bright and, like an unstable isotope, emit members to spin off into other musical pursuits, eventually to transform itself in a musical half-life. Tim Hellman went into the ranks of Thee Oh Sees; Mike Donovan …

FORMERLY the creative heart behind L-space, the electronic alt.pop outfit who released three albums from 2018 up to last year, Lily Higham and Gordon Johnstone have cleaved away into a new creative zone as Post Coal Prom Queen, although on this evidence it would seem their intent to seduce with airy siren sing and dark synthetic …

The deeply satisfying gothic rock tones of Astari Nite provide a thoroughly cathartic and celestial sonic power, with singer Mychael’s deeply mellifluous deep and sombre tones providing a fitting icing to the cake. After the success of their album ‘Here Lies’, Astari Nite have returned to the fray with a new single, ‘All Else Is …

BEN CALHOUN has been quietly working away for a while now, leading a double life as a construction worker-cum-experimental musician having begun using Digital Audio Workstations as a creative tool way back in 2014, reconnecting him finally to a performative sphere as a childhood musician he’d left behind Since then he’s digitally released a series of …