Music
Premiere: Jordan Paul releases new video for the charming and melancholy ‘Archetype X’
If you fell for Canadian singer-songwriters ‘Strange’, which turned into something of a lockdown anthem, we’ve got good news for you. We’re premiering new visuals for his latest single, ‘Archetype X’, right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the single, Jordan told us exclusively “Music is an everlong means of survival; something I feel I …
PREMIERE: Nancy Gaffield and The Drift – ‘Song Of The Shingle’: Kent’s High Weald evoked in music and poem
THERE’S been a little upswell in recent times of interesting and brilliantly evocative collaborations exploring the spoken word and the poetic, and how that plays against music. Slowly unfolding atmospheres, words chosen carefully, set to reduce to a fine and rich sauce, every syllable counting. The touchstone for me is Will Burns and Hannah Peel’s …
Track: Accept share new single ‘Too Mean To Die’ and launch preorder for new album
Metal legends Accept share brand new single ‘Too Mean To Die’, the title track from their upcoming record. Intended both as a gift to fans and to whet the appetite for their full-length masterpiece, their 16th studio album ‘Too Mean To Die’, which will be released on January 15th 2021 via Nuclear Blast. Accept mastermind Wolf Hoffmann explains: “We decided to not let ourselves be overly influenced by …
TRACK: The Damn Straights – ‘The World’s On Fire (Let It Burn)’: new collab drops a fiery banger
THE DAMN STRAIGHTS is a transatlantic collaboration between Exeter’s Adam Gibbons, aka the connoisseur’s modern soul connoisseur, Lack of Afro, and Maryland rhymer Herbal T, who’d actually shared musical admiration and had decided to hook up and make some bangers quite a while ago. Adam, of whom one tweeter replying to a single drop we …
SEE: Sofie – ‘Try To Reach Me’: languid, cinematic, European pop
STONES THROW’s intelligent Viennese chanteuse Sofie, who released one of the cleverest albums of the year with the graceful, European pop of Cult Survivor back in June (read our review here), has just shared a video for one of the loveliest tunes therein, “Try to Reach Me”. You can watch below. The video, directed by …
Track: Tourists release another shimmering single ‘Another State’ and announce news of album
‘Another State’ is the new dreamy and hypnotic single from the very exciting Tourists, and accompanies news of the release of the eponymously titled debut album due out on 20 November through Modern Sky. ‘Another State’ creates a mesmerising fugue – awash with gurgling and bubbling synths and layered vocals, ultimate dream pop to assuage …
Album Review: The Finalists release their warm and enveloping debut album First
Sydney supergroup The Finalists have just released their debut album ‘First’ and it is a delight. Nine tracks that feature the most jangling and sparkling of guitars – six strings, twelve strings, acoustic and electric – that form a superb bedrock for a collection of deeply personal songs that are heartfelt and passionate, raw and …
Track: Alter Bridge – Last Rites taken from upcoming EP
Alter Bridge have released a lyric video for their original, new song ‘Last Rites’ taken from their upcoming EP Walk The Sky 2.0. The video has a dark and mystical aesthetic utilising a fortune teller making a prediction based on the song’s lyrics. The song was born from an idea that band members Myles Kennedy, Mark Tremonti, Brian …
Premiere: Nicholas Krgovich & Friends release new single ‘Giving and Receiving’
Vancouver singer-songwriter Nicholas Krgovich has been releasing records for several years now, both under his own steam and as a member of No Kids, P:ANO and Gigi. Moone Records are following up the release of his most recent LP with Joseph Shabason (Destroyer, War On Drugs) by releasing a limited cassette of latest effort Pasadena Afternoon. …
Album Review: The Cribs – ‘Night Network’: their best yet?
Replete with unparalleled displays of riff-age. Riddled with lyrical honesty. An uncompromising garage-punk production. Each of The Cribs’ releases has honed these and other facets with increasing skill and, as preceding albums have progressively done, Night Network embellishes The Cribs’ sound with the brothers’ continuously developing songwriting and influences, while still retaining that indelible and …