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HAILING from Franconia, in southern Germany, Roland Wälzlein is on a mission to bring us glowing, stirring folk as Fish and Scales – and we’re premiering his first, rather groovy and lovely, single of the year, “You Can Call Me LOVE” here today at Backseat Mafia. As a child of 6, he underwent – and …

SEE: BLACK (W)HOLE – THE SHIFT

Benjii Jackson January 28, 2021

Austrian experimentalist Black (W)hole is already getting the leftfield brigade here at Backseat Mafia excited – the release of their forthcoming album Strange Worlds on March 5th has seen a few tracks shared for streaming over on their Bandcamp. It is however the simplistic, yet hypnotizing video for single “The Shift” that has further caught …

NEWS: Gearbox Records to release EP of Don Cherry rarities; hear ‘The Ambassador From Greenland’

LONDON’S Gearbox Recotds is carrying the torch and keeping the analogue fires burning from its own bespoke production facility in the capital, has unearthed some proper jazz treasure: a quartet of sides that Don Cherry cut for Danish Radio in the mid-Sixties; and the label is issuing ’em on wax, strickly mono, 45rpm. How about …

SEE: The video for XIXA’s ‘Eclipse’: Tucson barrio sextet go back to their roots

FOLLOWING on down that seductive, dusty road from their previous singles, September’s “Genesis of Gaea” and late October’s “May They Call Us Home”, Tucson’s TexMex rock fusioneers XIXA have dropped the video for “Eclipse”, another instalment from next month’s album, Genesis. You can watch below. It’s a rousing tune, showcasing a poppier end to the …

TRACK: Firestations – ‘The Circular’: bright as a button indiepop drop preludes March EP

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LOST MAP’S quirkily lovely alt.popsters Firestations have released a really bright and moreish single, “The Circular”, ahead of their March EP, Melted Medium, which sings with a indiepop summeriness last heard around these parts with Real Estate – or, going further back, maybe even The Railway Children or something on Flying Nun. Bloody lovely, it …

Premiere: Austrian artist Tanzos provides words of comfort in the shining track ‘Nevermind’

Arun Kendall January 28, 2021

Having played in one of Austria’s most successful indie bands Zeronic (with supports for New Order and The Kills), Tanzos is forging his own path, releasing a solo album back in 2017 and now with a new single, ‘Nevermind’ to be released on 29 January 2021 – which Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere today. …

Say Psych: Video: Venus Furs – New Inspiration

Le Crowley January 27, 2021

Canadian psych-gazer, Paul Kasner AKA Venus Furs has recently released a new video for ‘New Inspiration’. Directed by Justis Krar of IMMV Productions, who has previously worked with Zoon and Mundy’s Bay, Krar says: I wanted to present the visuals as a relation to both the lyrical tone and musical tone of the song. Heavily affected …

Say Psych: Track: Saccades – Islands Past

Le Crowley January 27, 2021

Saccades, the solo project of The KVB’s Nicholas Wood, is today announcing the Flowing Fades LP and sharing the first single, ‘Islands Past’, the LP is set for release on Fuzz Club Records on 9 April. Where Wood’s work in The KVB trades in minimalist post-punk/coldwave, the Manchester-based artist’s solo material under the Saccades moniker …

Say Psych: Track: The Lucid Dream – CHI-03

Le Crowley January 27, 2021

The Lucid Dream have this week announced the release of their fifth LP, The Deep End due out 2 April on Holy Are You Recordings. With the announcement, comes the release of lead single ‘CHI-03’; a track born out of listening to late 80s hip hop records on a loop before allowing the 303 to take on the co-lead vocal role, alongside the sampler. …