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Premiere: Modern Stars release new video for Space and Time
Modern Stars, aka Andrea Merolle, Barbara Margani and Andrea Sperduti are gearing up to release their debut album ‘Silver Needles’ in September via MiaCameretta Records and ahead of it they’ve released a new video for the track ‘Space and Time’, which we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track the …
Premiere: Délage releases the indie / synth-pop of Shopping Mall
Out today on Field Mates Records (Jimmy Whispers, Yuko Yuko..) is the new single from Délage, led by Amsterdam based Till Hormann. It’s taken from his forthcoming second album ‘Twist And Doubt’, out in September 18th, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here today on Backseat Mafia. Starting like some of …
Premiere: Annie Taylor – ‘The Grass is Greener’: classy fuzz-psych shimmer
LET’S set the record straight from the start: Annie Taylor isn’t a solo artiste, it’s a band. And let’s add to that: Annie Taylor, hailing from Switzerland, is a very fine and classy fuzzpop psych prospect indeed. They formed back in 2017, releasing two now-scarce singles and taking themselves out on tour across their home …
Premiere: CS Buchan reveals new visuals for Going Down Together
Perhaps better known as one half of the acclaimed Best Girl Athlete, who received a nomination for Scottish Album of the Year in 2018, CS Buchan is back in solo guise with a new track and accompanying video, which we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Buchan says “Going …
Premiere: Bloody Your Hands release new track, Insincere Apologies
New York indie punks Bloody Your Hands have announced their sophomore album, Sunday Scaries, is out on August 28th, and they’ve followed up first single Weird Winter with a new track ‘Insincere Apologies’, which we’re delighted to premiere here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, the band say “This is a song about relationships …
Exclusive: Emma Kupa records ‘Nothing at All’ live in session for Backseat Mafia
We’ve long been in the thrall of Emma Kupa, through all of her incarnations and all the collaborators she’s worked with over the years. Pretty much the first thing we ever wrote on the site for a long lost and forgotten series was something on Sheffield indie darlings Standard Fare, but since then she’s gone …
Premiere: Polyhymns release the beautiful alt-folk of ‘JK’
Sheffield trio Polyhymns are gearing up for the release of their debut EP ‘Hybrid Sunday’, available on Limited Edition 10” Lathe Cut Vinyl with Sheffield’s Do It Thissen Record Label, and deliberately scheduled to fit in with Bamdcamps first Friday of the month offers – do yourselves a favour, right? From the EP we’re delighted to …
Premiere: Werner Niedermeier & Gareth Whitehead – ‘Nineteen92’: taking ‘tronica out past Khruangbin
PROLIFIC producers Werner Niedermeier and Gareth Whitehead have been working together for about a decade now. As well as their busy DJ commitments and running their own record labels they have have found time to put out releases on a myriad of imprints, including Compost, Kling Klingon and Poker Flat. They’re gearing up for their …
Premiere: Oxford’s Enjoyable Listens release new single ‘The Key of Innocence’
Oxford’s one man indie band Enjoyable Listens have been building a bit of a buzz in and around his home town of late – his last single, released on Oxford label All Will Be Well, sold out of both of its runs within a couple of days. Now he’ back with a new single ‘ …
Exclusive: Lindsay Munroe records ‘Split’ live in session for Backseat Mafia
Manchester singer-songwriter Lindsay Munroe recently released her debut EP ‘Our Heaviness‘, which caught the ear of, amongst others, Sharon Van Etten, while we loved River taken from EP. We were delighted that Lindsay agreed to record one of the other stand out tracks from the EP – Split, live in session for us here at …