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Premiere: Safari Lee releases Web, a taster from her forthcoming EP III
Out on June 1st is the new EP from goth-rocker Safari Lee, III. From it, we’re delighted to be able to premiere the forth of five songs from the EP, ‘Web’ right here on Backseat Mafia today. Inspired by the goth-rock of 1979, Safari’s band os made up of three electric basses and a drum …
Premiere: Wren Wilder reveals new song Egyptian Cotton; See accompanying video here
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Wren Wilder has returned with a new single Egyptian Cotton, out today, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it and it’s accompanying video right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Wren told us exclusively “Every time I sit down to write a track, I’m looking for answers. Answers …
Premiere: Delmer Darion reveal beautiful ambient rework of Private Agenda’s Dependency; see new video exclusively here
Out right now is the new (mini) album ‘Submersion’ from Berlin and London based avant-pop duo Private Agenda, on the Lo Recordings imprint. It’s a collection of re-compositions taken from their debut album ‘Île de Rêve’, with the help of some of downtempo’s most exciting talents. We’re delighted to be able to premiere the new …
Premiere: Olec Mün – ‘Paloma’: locked down in Barcelona, the Argentinian pianist finds beauty taking flight
BORN in Argentina in 1985, Marcelo Schnock aka, for the purposes of the world of composition, Olec Mün, has been playing the piano since the age of 6. For him, the piano has been his first and lifelong affair; a fluid symbiosis of expression in sound that a non-player such as me can only wonder …
Premiere: Alex Fasso drops ‘Northside’: watching Melbourne goings-on in lo-fi quietude
BASED these days in Melbourne, born and raised over in Hong Kong, Alex Fasso has been quietly migrating his seductive and blissful tunesmithery away from the brittle acoustic introspection of his earlier work – check the lockdown lovely “Happy 4 U”, for instance, committed to tape during that first, weird, weird period when we all …
Premiere: Damien Binder lights a slow burning fuse with the gloriously transcendent track ‘Everything But’.
There is a delicious expansiveness about Damien Binder‘s work – he is an uniquely antipodean troubadour whose songs sparkle like the bright stars over the great southern land. Originally from New Zealand, Binder now lives in Perth and he has somehow combined elements of the spark of creativity from both places into an impressive body …
Premiere: Typical Sisters – ‘Recurring Memory’: a fraternal, jazzy post-rock groove teases for their third album
DESPITE being scattered across the globe, when the trio of musicians who comprise Typical Sisters get together, whether fraternally to catch up and spitball ideas, in the studio, or collaborating across the wires, they get a really intriguing jazzy post-rock thing going; crisply percussive, vamping with guitar, seeking and melodic, and still that important touch …
Premiere: We interview Swedish producer Friggen, plus reveal video for Miljoner Stjärnor
We’re delighted to be able to premiere the new video for the track Miljoner Sjärnonr, taken from Swedish producer Friggen’s recent EP Naiv.Super, out now on Muzai Records – grab a download or cassette here We’ve also grabbed an interview with Friggen, who moved from drumming in bands to making the sort of beautifully serene …
Premiere: Skybelly’s ethereal ‘The Rhino, The Tiger, The Emerald Dragonfly’ is a silky, sensual dream pop reverie with a message.
We are pleased to premiere the new single ‘The Rhino, The Tiger, The Emerald Dragonfly’ by Melbourne’s Skybelly, the nom de plume of artist Sara Nelson. This is a slinky, smooth and textural piece of music is off Skybelly’s forthcoming EP ‘The Drama of a Lava Lamp’ due out on 4 June 2021. Skybelly has …
Premiere: Brisbane’s loulou’s ‘Depend On Me’ is a scuzzy low-fi shining gem filled with an antipodean garage charm
We are delighted to premiere the new track by Brisbane (or to be precise, Naarm/Meanjin) band loulou entitled ‘Depend On Me’. This is a scuzzy, shambling treasure of a song with its genetic origins traceable to a diverse range of very acceptable source codes – a Brisbane sound with a little of The Go-Betweens, The …