Music
SEE: Real Estate perform ‘Gone’ live from the fridge; download and create your own footage!
NEW JERSEY’S gorgeous jangly guitar outfit Real Estate have just released a video for the sunlit harmonic breeze of “Gone”, taken from this year’s lovely album The Main Thing – which sees Martin Courtney and the boys performing … from inside a fridge. You can see them jingle-jangle out some beauty among the groceries below. …
SEE: Robbie & Mona ‘Wallpaper’: hazy Bristolian dreampop
FOLLOWING the announcement of another lockdown, the dreampop duo Robbie and Mona are happy to announce the delayed release of their debut album, EW, out on January 29th via Spinny Nights. And they’re teasing for it today with the video for the single drop, “Wallpaper”. The partnership of William Carkeet and Eleanor Gray, Robbie & …
TRACK: The Still Brothers feat. Marina B – ‘Wake Up’: delightfully sleepy breakz
NEW YORK’S Still Brothers, who announced their signing on the dotted line for Hoxton’s Lewis Recordings back in midsummer with the uplifting jazz breaks of “The Deep” (we took a butcher’s, here) have just dropped their second delicious missive, “Wake Up”, for which they’ve called on the services of Brazilian cantora Marina B. Take a …
EP review: X Ray Cat Trio with Harriet Hyde – Bubblegum
Photo credit – Emma Stone Leeds rock ‘n rollers X Ray Cat Trio have teamed up with Black Moths singer Harriet Hyde to create some sweet rock ‘n roll for a 4 track EP with the perfect title of ‘Bubblegum’ pink 7’’ through Buzzard’s Claw. The band and Hyde teamed up over a love of …
News: Deftones reissue their White Pony album along with a remix
To mark the 20th anniversary of their 2000 alt-metal opus, White Pony, Deftones are reissuing the album with a companion disc of remixes titled Black Stallion on Reprise / Warner Records. With remixers include icons like Robert Smith of The Cure, DJ Shadow, and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park alongside genre-bending heavyweights: dark-pop favorites Phantogram, electronic experimentalist Squarepusher, beatsmith Clams Casino, renowned …
Premiere: Sonny Winnebago releases new video for ‘Lemonade’
Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter Harvey Jones has producer Charlie Francis, and session musicians Davey Newington (Boy Azooga) and Matt Evans (KEYS) to release a new single under his moniker Sonny Winnebago called Lemonade, and we’re delighted to premiere the video right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track and its accompanying visuals, Jones says “The concept was to create something a …
SEE: Patrick Watson – ‘Lost With You’: piano grace from the brilliant Canadian
CANADIAN songsmith Patrick Watson, who leads the band of the same name, somewhat flies under the radar on UK shores – and that’s bordering on criminal once you dive into his world of beautifully arranged music. You may know him as the man behind (well, the man upfront, since he composed, sang and played piano …
SEE: Calexico to release seasonal album; watch the video for ‘Hear The Bells’
ARIZONA’S atmospheric Tex-Mex outfit Calexico have returned after last year’s collaborative album with Iron & Wine, and have announced a new album whose songs are very much concerned with this time of year in the shape of Seasonal Shift. The album is a celebration of the wider winter and festive season and will be released …
TRACK: Stats – ‘Come With Me’: where the Welsh hills bare synthpop dancefloor teeth
AFTER two singles dropped on the drove road through the autumn in the shape of the swirling and funky “Naturalise Me”, and the graceful boy/girl synthpop of “Old Flames”, which we took a butcher’s at here and here, respectively, Ed Seed and his band have decided to bare their dancefloor teeth as they descend the …
TRACK: Bleach Lab – ‘Never Be’: dreampop brilliance from south of the Thames
SO, BRASS tacks: Bleach Lab, the upcoming dreampop who formed in Buckinghamshire but who moved to a new operating base south of the river; they’re bloody lovely. Now we’ve got that firmly established, we can move on. Agreed? They’ve been around for a little while, and they’ve released three singles since 2019, including the beautiful, …