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Premiere: Portable Radio Release video for Flight Home
Taken from their Jim Noir produced eponymous EP, out tomorrow, we’re delighted to premiere the video for Flight Home by Potable Radio. It comes ahead of their debut album, planned for October. The band, Phil Anderson (Beep Seals, Hanging Stars), Mof Gimmers & Robyn Gibson (Junipers, Watch 44) summon up all that is good about …
Premiere: Garsa – The Devil’s Own
After releasing a stunning debut earlier this year, (‘Jimmy sour highs‘) solo artist Martin Garside, operating under the name Garsa, is back with another perfect slice of dream pop/ shoegaze in ‘The Devil’s Own’, which Backseat Mafia is proud to premiere. This is a beautiful release, infused with an air of wistfulness and yearning and …
Premiere: Boyracer release new video for ‘Girl in a Soul Band’
Boyracer, beloved indie artists of iconic labels such as Sarah and Slumberland, are back with a new album – ‘On a Promise’, out via Emotional Response Records on June 5th, and from it we’re delighted to premiere the video for ‘Girl in a Soul Band’ right here on Backseat Mafia today. The album is the …
Say Psych: Premiere: Gunman & The Holy Ghost – Into The Setting Sun
Gunman & The Holy Ghost is Hákon Aðalsteinsson; a talented front man who is renowned for his versatile work, for example as part of the Berlin based band The Third Sound. After the Icelander struck camp in his home country and decided to built up a new life in Berlin, he needed more than one output …
Premiere: Nikitta – Dance in the Night (Acoustic)
Glasgow via Manchester singer-songwriter Nikitta has given us access to an acoustic version of her track Dance in the Night, that we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia this afternoon. Supporting Ms Dynamite at 16, Nikitta was singing on the X-Factor tour at 17, and has since written with Emeli Sande and toured …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Demian Castellanos – Zero Point
‘Zero Point’ is taken from The Kyvu Tapes Vol.3, the latest exploration of abandoned four-track experiments that were recorded between 1989-1992 by Demian Castellanos, of The Oscillation fame. Castellanos explains “It was recorded using a cheap Casio keyboard that I had borrowed from someone, and electric guitar where I was trying to find the melting …
Premiere: Unruly Girls – Black Love (Video)
Backseat Mafia is very honoured to premiere today the phenomenal new video by Italian band Unruly Girls. ‘Black Love’ is off their recently released album ‘Epidemic’ – an album I rated a 9.1 out of 10 – and is a typically unhinged, anarchic and thundering production, yet is antithetically tinged with a sense of poignancy. …
Premiere: Yaglander to release new video for The Straight and Narrow
We’re delighted to premiere the new video this morning from North London’s Yaglander, for his single The Straight and Narrow. It’s taken from his EP of the same name which is out on 22nd May. The straight and narrow mixes up left-field indie/synth pop, akin to the likes of Cate Le Bon, but throws in …
Premiere: Silverkord – Halcyon
London rock band Silverkord have a new single coming tomorrow, and we have the first view of their massive new track ‘Halcyon’. Taken from their upcoming debut album, ‘Halcyon’ is a swirling mass of rock, grunge and prog. Crushing riffs and soaring vocals sit atop a rock solid rhythm section, altogether framing a dynamic sound …
Premiere: Marveline – Savoury-Toothed Tiger
Marveline is basically the solo work of Pete Marley – a stalwart of the Sydney music scene and go-to bass player for a number of seminal local acts including The Nature Strip (see our review of their last album) and Fallon Cush. We are honored to prmiere Marveline’s debut album – amusingly titled ‘Savoury-Toothed Tiger’ …