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Album Premiere: Recall Madame X – Unconscious ID
Recall Madame X is a retrowave musical and visual project, with a cinematic and oneiric feel. Their sound is dark vintage-analog, created with Groovebox, Moog and modified electronics. Its evocative, where distorted bass meets ailing synths. BSM is honoured to bring you the premiere of their new LP Unconscious ID. The project is the collaboration between Alessandro De Benedetti (musician, designer, …
Exclusive: Brooklyn’s Varsity Star records us an exclusive takeover mix
To celebrate Brooklyn-based musician and producer Varsity Stars’ debut on Small Pond Records (release date 05/11/21), we present a solid Takeover mix for your listening pleasure. Varsity Star is an electronic musician and upright bassist who grew up in Boston and spent time playing with various bands as a multi-genre sideman. After deciding to go …
Premiere: Alan McGee signing Cat SFX release new video for Upside Down
That Alan McGee knows a thing or two about signing bands, so it’s always worth keeping an eye on whats happening in his world. Signed to his Creation Baby label is Cat SFX, aka Caterina Speranza (Vox) alongside Giancarlo Mariani (guitar), Jacob Morris (bass), and Gordon Mills (drums). They make this filthy sounding punk/post-punk noise, …
Premiere: Wade Jackson releases the electronic dreamy fugue of ‘Sensationalized’
Wade Jackson is a multi talented songwriter, musician and film director whose new track ‘Sensationalized’, which we are proud to premiere today, is a mesmerising soundscape that bubbles and flows along with an electronic thrum. Wild synth sounds ebb and flow over the circular undercurrent, before launching into an exuberant flange half way through the …
Premiere: Shuta Hasunuma reveals first glimpse of Kirei No Kuni soundtrack with Collapse
Tokyo born Composer and electronic artist Shuta Hasunuma has returned with the first glimpse of his new album, a soundtrack for the drama series Kirei No Kuni. We’re delighted to be able to premiere the first glimpse of the album in the shape of a track, Collapse, right here today on Backseat Mafia. The album …
PREMIERE: Field Guide announces full-album cover of Coldplay’s Parachutes, enlists Lizzy McAlpine for ‘Yellow’
We’ve got a lot of time for Field Guide. We’ve also got a lot of time for Lizzy McAlpine, so when we heard the former – AKA the Winnipeg-based Dylan McDonald – was covering Coldplay‘s seminal debut album Parachutes in full, we were intrigued. It strikes a sweet spot between faithful reproduction and giddy reinvention, …
Premiere: Cathal Coughlan and Jacknife Lee ready for broadcast as Telefís and offer you ‘Mister Imperator (Maurice and Charles remix)’
MICRODISNEY fractured so long ago now, but their end birthed two great talents to the world, so not all was lost; Sean O’Hagan gave us the baroque brilliance of The High Llamas, and Cathal Coughlan – who we’re concerned with here today – led us on a pied piped and merry dance to weirder, more …
Premiere: Simon Robert Gibson unveils his reflective new single ‘Laying Low’ and announces new album ‘Shined Bright The Day’
On the day his other band The Aerial Maps releases its majestic ‘Intimate Hinterland’ album (reviewed by me here), Maps’ sticksman and brother of singer Adam Gibson, Simon Robert Gibson today unveils for us his new single ‘Laying Low’. Low key and low-fi, Gibson shares his brother’s ear for capturing snapshots of life in a …
Exclusive: Former Apollo 440 / Grim Northern Social frontman Ewan MacFarlane records three tracks in session for Backseat Mafia
In the run up to his forthcoming debut solo album ‘Always Everlong’, out on October 29th, former Apollo 440 and Grim Northern Social frontman Ewan MacFarlane has recorded three tracks exclusively for us here at Backseat Mafia in session. Taking inspiration from the likes of Bowie, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, MacFarlane has channeled epic …
PREMIERE: Ryan Kaiser lines up new Yot Club EP for January, shares video for unsettled lead single ‘Alive’
You never know where interest can come from when you put your music out there. The Nashville-based Ryan Kaiser knows a thing or two about that; ‘YKWIM?’ was originally found on his Bipolar EP – released in 2019 under the Yot Club moniker – but the song found a new life on TikTok earlier this …