Music
Track: Amaranthe – Archangel
Amaranthe release ‘Archangel’, the third single from their upcoming album ‘Manifest’, due October 2nd, via Nuclear Blast. Amaranthe commented: “Fire and brimstone! Savour the sweet scent of sulphur as Amaranthe delves deep into Miltonian lore with ‘Archangel’! An ancient tale of the fall of the angel Lucifer Morningstar was interpreted as a Greek tragedy in John Milton’s seminal ‘Paradise Lost’, …
Track: Pallbearer – The Quicksand Of Existing
Pallbearer have released ‘The Quicksand of Existing’, the third single from the band’s forthcoming album Forgotten Days, out October 23rd via Nuclear Blast. “As we strive to be, the forces of entropy perpetually pull us down into a state of being unmade,” Offers bass player/songwriter Joseph D. Rowland of the track which reflects the narrative themes behind the highly-anticipated release, self-described by the band …
Tracks: Cherry Parke Share ‘Captain Bullseye’ & ‘All Around the Moon’ The Perfect Soundtrack For The Seaside Holiday
Seemingly heavily inspired by the sound of the 60’s and recorded by Kevin Basko (Foxygen, The Lemon Twigs), Cherry Parke the moniker of Will Wiggins hailing from New Jersey has dropped ‘Captain Bullseye’ and b-side ‘All Around the Moon’. ‘Captain Bullseye’ itself is a baroque pop, psychedelic-pop carnival reminiscent of Brian Wilson, Margo Guryan and …
ALBUM REVIEW: Yves Jarvis – ‘Sundry Rock Song Stock’: a thrilling solo quirk-psych vision
WHEN historians of future days come to write up the glowering all-round evils of 2020, they will, hopefully, take note of one glimmering shaft of light through the fog-plague; how great the sphere of quirky Canadian music has been this year. There’s been another sonically luxuriant missive from Montreal’s Braids in the shape of Shadow …
ALBUM REVIEW: Olivier Alary and Johannes Malfatti – ‘u,i’: beautifully humanist post-classicism, listening to the world talk to itself
ISDN, fibre-optics, the web. Sharing platforms, Skype, Facebook, Zoom; instantaneous transmission, the world shrunk to a pebble’s dimension. Our modern world, and especially the broader swathe of this fractured year 2020 would be unimaginable without it. And the latest offering from FatCat’s ever-intriguing leftfield imprint, 130701, a collaboration between Montreal-based Toulousain Olivier Alary and Berlin’s …
Premiere: The Finalists – ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone)’
We are proud to premiere the debut single ‘Ignore All The Hate (On Your Telephone’ from yet another talented bunch of Sydney musicians, The Finalists. Sydney is fertile ground indeed at the moment for a particular style of extraordinarily talented inner city bands of, shall we say, a more mature vintage. Whether it be bands …
Premiere: Good Cop release new video for ‘Neighbourhood’
WE’RE delighted that, following on from Friday’s release of the album World Piss, Austrian punks Good Cop have released a new video for the track “Neighbourhood”; and we’re premiering it today right here on Backseat Mafia. The band – Manuela Rabitsch, Bastian Andorfer and Aaron Dal – formed in Vienna in 2013, and have been …
ALBUM REVIEW: A Certain Ratio – ‘ACR Loco’: taut Mancunian future funk and effortless electronic pop
“THIS album is a culmination of everything we’ve ever done,” says A Certain Ratio’s Jez Kerr. “We’ve got some real momentum at the moment.” He’s talking about A Certain Ratio’s first album in 12 years, ACR Loco, which drops this week. Excited much? You wouldn’t bet against a musician so steeped in the groove; A …
ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – ‘Sunrise On The Blues: Sun Records Curated By Record Store Day Vol. 7’
SAM PHILLIPS’ Sun Records imprint is arguably the first truly great label of the modern era. It was founded in Memphis in February 1952 by Sam, Alabama born, who lived through the great American depression and who cut his musical teeth at the Muscle Shoals radio station WLAY, which didn’t categorise its music by colour …
TRACK: Hear Vaughan’s ‘BitCrushed’: downtempo electropop concerning the pains of love
THOMAS HARVEY is a young English singer-songwriter bringing alt.pop grace and intelligence to his songwriting as a voice for the young UK queer community. He’s not afraid of a downtempo melodic pop number shot through with piercing lyrical precision, as demonstrated by his latest single, the empowered but regretful lament of “BitCrushed”. Take a listen …