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Say Psych: Album Review: The Nude Party – Midnight Manor
The Nude Party return with their second LP Midnight Manor out on Friday via New West Records. The 12-song set was recorded live-to-tape over six days at the Outlier Inn in upstate New York and mixed by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile). Midnight Manor is the follow up to their critically acclaimed self-titled debut which Rolling Stone heralded as …
SEE: Red Rum Club’s ‘The Elevation’: brassy pop for the blue-tick age
AS THE rain starts to wrap us in autumn, at least Liverpudlian sextet Red Rum Club are here to bring a little thoughtful pop sunshine. Today they’ve dropped a video for “The Elevation”, a sweet brass-led groove about a fractious relationship in the WhatsApp age: when you get no reply even after “the ticks go …
Say Psych: Track Review: The Spyrals – Same Old Line
‘Same Old Line’ is the second single from the upcoming album of LA’s The Spyrals which is set for release via Fuzz Club Records on 30 October. Taking cues from The Velvet Underground, 13th Floor Elevators and The Stooges by way of Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters, the new album Same Old Line was …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Modern Stars – Jesus Walks Alone
Modern Stars are Andrea Merolle, Barbara Margani and Andrea Sperduti. Andrea and Andrea played in several bands of the Latium underground scene, while Barbara is a lyric soprano. Their music is instinctive and at the same time flickering, fuzzy, aerial, groovy, bizarre, distorted, harmonious and dissonant. They are heavily influenced by Spacemen 3, Primal Scream, …
See: Sam Eagle releases new video for new single ‘Like This’
Taken from his forthcoming EP, ‘Something out of Nothing’, out in November on Cooking Vinyl, 21-year old multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Sam Eagle has shared the visuals for his latest single ‘Like This’. Speaking about the single, Sam says, “pretty much the whole song just came that night. Lyrically it’s quite abstract I think, but to me, …
See: Kitchman / Schmidt release new video for Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’
Out on November 27th is the new album from Jazz/Folk guitarist James Kitchman and vocalist Sylvia Schmidt – ‘As Long As Songbirds Sing’, and ahead of it, the pair have released their debut single, the Anne Briggs inspired ‘Lowlands’. On the origins of their version of the song – which Briggs sung on her seminal …
Track: Misty Coast release the psych-pop of ‘In a Million Years’
Misty Coast, aka Linn Frøkedal and Richard Myklebust have recently released a new track, In A MIllion Years ahead of their new album When I Fall From The Sky. On the song, Linn says “the song represents a recurring theme on the album, and it lingers in thoughts about whether we should choose to ignore …
TRACK: Crawford Mack – ‘A Love I Can’t Live Up To’
CRAWFORD MACK is back with a new single, “A Love I Can’t Live Up To”, following his brace of recent single releases, “Depends On Where You Stand’ and “Firing Squad” Again mixing his influences across the musical spectrum from jazz to pristine pop to classical, he’s once more crafted a song which is both effortlessly …
Premiere: Mindset releases new single, Purple Açai
We’re becoming almost the official Mindset channel here on Backseat Mafia, having premiered his previous two singles ‘Breakfast in Bed’ and ‘I still use Ur netflix’, but the Colombia, South Carolina native makes such a catchy brand of soulful/funky hip-hop, we can’t ignore, so we’re delighted to premiere his latest release – Purple Açai. Named …