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TRACK: Alex Jayne – ‘Clouds’: acoustic pop details the moment you notice it’s all changed
ALEX JAYNE, the London songwriter who we last heard of coolly observing the world from a late-night taxi on “Backseat”, has returned with a new single, the intelligent pure pop of “Clouds”. She’s got such an adept eye for seeing how life is; her new single spots the clouds in the sky which, like a …
Track: Accept – The Undertaker
German Heavy Metal band Accept are set to release new single ‘The Undertaker’ taken from their forthcoming album. Details of which will be released at a later date. The single will be a 2-track featuring a previously unreleased live version of ‘Life´s A Bitch’ recorded in Oulu, Finland in 2019. It will be released digitally as well …
Premiere: BrucexCampbell Share track ‘Project Annihilation’ – Listen first here
LA Grindcore band BruceXCampbell have announced the North American vinyl release of their debut full length album ‘South To No Life’ via Give Praise Records. The band share track ‘Project Annihilation’ and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Named in homage to the famous Evil Dead actor, BruceXCampbell has been blasting furious, horror-themed grindcore since 2005. …
Album Review: SAD13 – Haunted Painting
To contrast Sadie Dupuis’ work as SAD13 with her work with Speedy Ortiz feels unfair, yet inevitable as they are essentially two different distillations of her own personality. The former is more Dupuis as Dupuis, for sure ,but even the band work was sprung out of her own ideas and therefore could be reasonably approached …
TRACK: Felid – ‘Take It Off’: a steamy pop grind
LEAVING the shores of cool electropop duo Mauwe to strike out on his own, Bristol-based, South African-born singer, songwriter and producer Felid (pronounced with a long ‘e’) has unveiled the steamy grooves of his debut single “Take It Off” today. Take a listen below. Combining leftfield, lazy hiphop breaks with a slow, sweltering hip-grind of a tale …
Premiere: Dirty Freud releases new single Blood Bayou – listen first here
Taken from his upcoming EP ‘Love In The Backwater’, out on Modern Sky UK later in the year, Sheffield producer Dirty Freud is back with a new single Blood Bayou, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. It’s the follow up to his lauded recent single ‘Intentions’ (ft. Szou), and …
TRACK: The Native – ‘Break Away’: South West indie risers’ second laments Brexit
PLYMOUTH’S The Native are on an upward curve: they’ve been building a real reputation down in the South West, getting themselves a real fanbase and a name as purveyors of a certain brand of soaring indie guitar rock. Back in August they debuted with the power melodiousness of “Chasing Highs”, written in response to a …
SEE: The video for Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’, their first in five years
THE MOUNTAIN GOATS are primed and ready on the starting grid for the release of their new album, Getting Into Knives, on October 23rd; and for the first time in five years they’ve stepped out in front of a rolling camera and put together a video for the recently released single, “Get Famous”. We dived into “Get …
See: Korpiklaani release video for Powerwolf cover, ‘Sudenmorsian’
AFTER celebrating the release of their unique spruce-flavoured vodka with a live stream held at the Pyynikin Brewery, in Tampere, Finland, Korpiklaani have released a very special cover. Their new single ‘”Sudenmorsian” is their take on Powerwolf’s “Where The Wild Wolves Have Gone”. The band said: “When we were approached by Powerwolf, we agreed immediately and wanted to do something a little different and special. …
Album Review: Wilding – The Death of Foley’s Mall
Wilding – the nom de plume of Justin Wilding Stokes – premiered the single ‘Swipe Right’ here on Backseat Mafia last month and it was quite a breath of fresh air. I observed it was a highly enjoyable marriage of pure pop bounce mixed with an intelligent and off-kilter lyrics. Wilding just released his new …