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PREMIERE: Vermont’s Tom Weir readies new EP as Old Moon, shares jangle-pop smash ‘All It Takes’
It would be fair to say Tom Weir’s been putting in work. In the past year alone, the Vermont-based artist has released two albums, a rarities compilation, an EP and a single, and he shows no signs of slowing down with his output of winsome, jangly, melodic post-punk. In recent years, the subgenre has been …
Premiere: nipaluna/Hobart’s Verticoli land an elegant atmospheric post punk catch with their new single ‘Sailor’, and announce launch gigs ahead of album news.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Sailor’ from nipaluna/Hobart trio Verticoli: an atmospheric enigmatic gem that sparkles intensely with a slow burning fuse. It has the driving energy and poise of something by The National with an ominous edge redolent of Interpol, Nirvana or early The Cure: a guitar driven undercurrent with yearning …
Premiere: The Nethered’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ is a refreshing breeze of languid joy and comes ahead of album news.
With gentle background vocals and gentle guitars lapping at the shores, ‘The Long Goodbye’ from ollo’s Alex Crowfoot under the name The Nethered is a fifties-flavoured widescreen epic: easy and languid music that bursts with a melancholic ray of sunshine. We are honoured to premiere this luscious track on Backseat Mafia. ‘The Long Goodbye’ seems …
Premiere: Blair Jollands lends his enthralling vocals and style to the Billie Eilish track ‘Everything I Wanted’.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Everything I Wanted’ from New Zealand born, Europe/UK resident Blair Jollands. In a departure from my usual reviews, this is actually a cover of a Billie Eilish song and to my mind, covers are only interesting when they bring something new and unexpected to a track. …
Premiere: Melbourne’s INSTYNKT take us on a rocking, anthemic ‘Ride’ and announce single launch date.
We are pleased to premiere the video for the track ‘Ride’ from Melbourne band INSTYNKT. ‘Ride’ is a powerful guitar-driven track that resonates with a pop sensibility while setting a blistering pace. At heart is the kind of pure rock’n’roll filled with blood sweat and tears that used to form the mainstay of Australian pub …
Premiere: Conrad Greenleaf ascends the elegant electronica of ‘Mount Analogue’ via an immersive, organic video, ahead of album release.
We are very pleased to premiere this morning the new video for artist Conrad Richters’s project Conrad Greenleaf whose single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a spaced out emission of electronica that gently ricochets inside your head and pulsates with a psychedelic thrum. Plonking raindrop pianos and natural sounds lead us gently into the track itself before …
Premiere: Prudence’s dark perspective says ‘It’s Useless’ – a rich textured piece of shimmering gold, preceding new album ‘Negatives’.
Crystalline, razor sharp guitars immediately focus attention on Prudence‘s stately anthemic single ‘It’s Useless’: they ring out like bells as the steady paced track commences with an euphoric, effortless march. With shades of The Verve in its psychedelic magnificence and singer Tom Crandles’s vocals, this is a shimmering track that we are honoured to premiere …
Premiere: Meditations On Crime Share Video For Track ‘Nagual’ (Feat Geneva Jacuzzi)
We are very pleased to be premiering Harper Simon’s art collective ‘Meditations On Crime’ new release ‘Nagual’ featuring Geneva Jacuzzi. The track is taken from the full length album set for release on the 23rd of September 2022 via AntiFragile Music. Artwork for the single comes from celebrated ‘pop’ artist, Nate Lowman. Rising out of …
Premiere: Josh Northwood Shines On Pillowy New Single ‘Paradise’
Josh Northwood returns with the expansive and emotive new single ‘Paradise’. Needless to say, we’re very excited to be running the premiere! The Worcester Indie-folk singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer captures an honesty, emotion and personal reflective tone on ‘Paradise’. Keeping the track relatively stripped with intertwining electric guitar lines, immersive reverbs, piano and subtle …
PREMIERE: Brook Pridemore is ‘Glad to Be Alive’, announces new record with brilliant lead track ‘Wore Me Well’
Meet Brook Pridemore. If you know them, you don’t know them like their new record. It’s out later in the year, it’s called Glad to Be Alive and it’s the next chapter in the storied career of someone last seen diving into metal on last year’s Trve Grind EP. The Brooklynite’s 15-track album doesn’t have …