Music
See: Hiss Golden Messenger share video for ‘Sanctuary’
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER are back with new material, after a busy 2020 including two live albums for the benefit of public schools, but “Sanctuary” is the first new studio track since 2019’s Terms Of Surrender. With its lush sound and theme of staying safe and hoping for reconciliation, it’s certainly a hopeful song for 2021 …
Premiere: GEISTE releases new single ‘I just feel really empty inside all the time’
Out tomorrow via Snide Records is the new single from GEISTE – I just feel really empty inside all the time, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. It’s the follow on a productive 2020 for GEISTE, which saw her release a couple of singles, Alibi …
TRACK: Bill Stone – ‘Purple’: lost psych-folk nugget gets a reissue
YOU MAY think we’ve been there, got the T-shirt, seen it all where it comes to long-lost psych singer-songwriters of the Sixties and Seventies. Yep, we’ve adored and come to revise the place of history for artists like Bill Fay, Vashti, Gary Higgins; Linda Perhacs. They’re embraced, lauded, careers rejuvenated. We’ve mined it dry; we …
Premiere: The Tibbs release new video for The Main Course
Dutch soul band The Tibbs have just released a new lyric video for ‘The Main Course’, the second single taken from their new album ‘Another Shot Fired’, out via Record Kicks, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia this morning. The Main Course is a soul stomper in …
EP REVIEW: LUMER – ‘Disappearing Act’: cathartic post-punk anger
Cathartic anger from Yorkshire post-punks stakes their claim to a place in a crowded pantheon
SEE: The Lottery Winners feat. Frank Turner – ‘Start Again’: begs to be sung with a can aloft
JANUARY – I mean you could paraphrase Malcolm Middleton, at the time formerly of Arab Strap here, who had some choice and entirely memorable words to say of autumn in a vein which seems to capture the grind and the dark admirably. And this year’s opening month; well, bit of a shocker in most senses, …
TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘Not For That Hour, Nor For That Place’: modern composition with electronica glimmer
RUTGER HOEDEMAEKERS is the most recent addition to 130701’s almost obscenely strong and talented stable of artists working at the forefront of modern composition. You may not yet have come across him, even if you are an aficionado of modern composition; but if you are amongst that number, you’ve heard him collaboratively in the work …
Track: Nubiyan Twist release new track ‘If I Know’, feat. K.O.G.
NUBIYAN TWIST have been teasing us with a number of new singles from their forthcoming album, and the latest is “If I Know” (featuring K.O.G.). The earlier singles have been more restrained, with jazz and downtempo influences, but this one really lets loose. It’s a six-minute Afrobeat epic complete with horns, breakdown, false ending, and driven forward …
Album Review: Lee Ritenour – ‘Dreamcatcher’
OUT RIGHT now on the Players Club label is the new album by one of LA’s finest session guitarists, Lee Ritenour, and his first solo record. The list of who Lee has played for is simply jaw dropping. Aretha Franklin, Art Garfunkel, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, BB King to name only a few, but this …
Track: Field Music release new single ‘Orion from the Street’, plus new tour dates
Perennial Backseat Mafia favourites Field Music, aka Peter and David Brewis are back with a new song, ‘Orion from the street,’, is out now via Memphis Industries and the first glimpse of a new studio album due out later in the year. Of the new track, Peter says “I wrote it in a daze – …