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Track: Louien – ‘Deep Within’: Nordicana that gently, effortlessly steals your heart away
KNOW this: Miranda Solberg, the Norwegian alt.folk singer who steps out into the music world as Louien, and who is about to release an EP, No Tomorrow, for Oslo’s Jansen Records, can grasp your heart in a second with voice and her melodicism. The evidence, m’lud: it’s all there in her latest single, “Deep Within”, …
Premiere: Wes Tirey – ‘Bang The Drum Slowly’: haunting, beautiful Americana with plains dust under its nails
WES TIREY comes to us from the arty city of Asheville, North Carolina, out in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he’s been plying a trade in well-crafted Americana for nearly a decade with a whole clutch of releases under his belt in that time for labels such as Scissor Tail, Full Spectrum, and Noumenal Loom. …
See: John Grant releases new video for the incredible ‘Boy From Michigan’
It’s A Mindfuck. Total Head Explosion. Grant Roams Eerie Alien Territories. Each Second There’s Madness, Obscenity, Terror. Here, Everything Radiates Fear, Unease. Cartoon Kallikantzaroi Eviscerate Reality. It’s Stephen King in song. Childhood distilled into essential sights and sounds and smells. Everyday cautionary tales, neighbourhood characters, the things kids get up to when time is no object and everything can …
Premiere: Milano indie giants The Ghibertins reveal their exciting new single ‘20149 – Milano’, with announcement of a new album for 2022.
Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere the new vibrant and cinematic single from Italian indie rockers The Ghibertins – a visceral and sinewy track that has an endless vista, wider than the sky, and is just as immersive and mesmerising. It’s an anthemic, emotional roller coaster that is bold and magnificent. A punchy and scything …
Track: Tiny Little Houses drive straight out of Melbourne with a quirky ‘Car Crash’
The new song from Melbourne indie band Tiny Little Houses is a terrific humour-infused number with all the bottled up energy from a year burdened by lockdowns bursting out. It’s a refreshing drink from a cooling fountain. There is a frenetic and wry delivery: an arch observational veracity fueling a driving guitar-based pop. The lyrics …
News: Birds of Maya breathe new fire into the stoner vibe with an album for Drag City in late June – see the video for ‘BFIOU’
PHILADELPHIA is a city that knows how to properly rock, dirt under its nails, filthy fuckin’ fuzz in its heart. With the news that Philly headz Bardo Pond are getting a silver jubilee expanded repress for their ’96 psychotropic masterpiece Amanita, comes news from more of the city’s favourite prodigally noisy sons, Birds of Maya; …
See: King Ropes – ‘Magical Floating Eye’: outta their Montana eyrie with playful alt-rock
BASED in the small city of Bozeman, Montana, in the foothills of the Rockies, King Ropes have quietly going about their particular brand of whimsical, alt.psych rock since their 2017 debut, Dirt. There’s a little of Kurt Wagner’s husky, declamatory warmth and observation to their thang; a touch of the Malkmus absurds, a little Mr …
Track: Pathfinders – Impostors
After sharing the lead single ‘Damned Earth‘ last month, France’s space loving metal band Pathfinders have shared the video for ‘Imposters’ taking from their album ‘Ares Vallis’ due due April 16th via Music-Records. Eerie beginnings with some sampled space launch chatter the song announces itself with single chord stabs and crash of drums that soon …
Track: Hurricane On Saturn – Outsider
Hurricane On Saturn is a new project launched at the end of 2019 by experienced Italian musicians coming from various genres called Dakm, Maydx, Antares, Rastaban and Menkib. They released their debut album ‘Killing Field’ in November 2020 and have now shared a new single ‘Outsider’. Atmospheric synths give this a cinematic feel with a groovy …
Track: Borstal – Karma
Hardcore band, Borstal, featuring Pierre Mendivil (Knuckledust), Nick Barker (Brujeria, ex-Cradle Of Filth/Dimmu Borgir/Testament) and members of Dripback and King Of Pigs have dropped a video for new single “Karma”. The track comes from their debut EP titled ‘At Her Majesty’s Pleasure’ which is out now via 4Family and Rucktion Records The band comments: “Borstal …