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SEE: The animation for the bright electro groove of Myd feat. Mac DeMarco’s ‘Moving Men’
QUENTIN LEPOUTRE, better known to us out there in the world of Gallic grooves as Myd, has made what seems on paper an unlikely alliance with Canadian indie rock star Mac DeMarco for his latest single “Moving Men”. Watch the cute animation for a smooth, sophisticated two-hander of a groove below. Actually they’ve had a …
NEWS: Bing & Ruth release digital remix EP of ‘Species’: hear a harp-laden take on ‘Badwater Psalm’
AS WE approach the end of this accursed year and begin to summate the best of it – and more than any year as a species, thank the good lord above for the human gift for creative abstraction and catharsis – it’s an absolute dead cert that Bing & Ruth’s wholly immersive drone study Species …
SEE: Jim Ghedi – ‘Beneath The Willow’; new album in January
MODERN fingerpicking scion Jim Ghedi has announced he’s releasing a new album in January; and he’s just released a video and short film for the first single to be taken from it, “Beneath The Willow”. Have a watch, below. And with the times we live in ever darker, ever more strewn with polarisation, he’s coming …
NEWS: Khruangbin next to offer us their ‘Late Night Tales’ – hear their Kool & The Gang cover
LATE NIGHT TALES, the long-running and superb compilation series curated so far by pretty much every cool band of our times, from Belle & Sebastian to Air, from Jon Hopkins to MGMT, from The Flaming Lips to Nils Frahm and, most recently, Hot Chip, has announced that the latest in the series will see Texan …
Track: Guided By Voices – Mr. Child
Ohio’s most prolific indie rockers, Guided By Voices, have teased their 32nd album, ‘Styles We Paid For’, with a punchy new song called ‘Mr. Child’. A statement from the band explains that the song is about a Peter Pan-style figure who refuses to grow up. It showcases the playing skills of bassist Mark Shue and …
Track: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – ‘Tally Ho’
THE PROLIFIC psych machines that are Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have returned with “Tally Ho”, an infectiously exuberant track with the band’s generous zeal of riffage and rhythmic pummel. “Tally Ho” orbits the realm of such Crumpets’ belters as “Gallop To Southport” and “Keen For Kick Ons?”, while also swimming in the mercurial flourishes which the …
SEE: Max Cooper – ‘Spike’: beautiful visuals for pulsing IDM
IN CASE you haven’t entered its fascinating, layered, granular, beautiful world yet, rest assured that Max Cooper’s Earth EP is one of the absolute highlights of IDM in 2020: what is, in the most reductive sense, a four-track techno 12″ is in fact an exercise in irresistible groove, synaesthesic sound sculpture, enthralling film collaborations – …
SEE: Black Country, New Road – ‘Science Fair’: a potent experimental tale
AFTER an agonisingly lengthy wait, South London experimental rock group Black Country, New Road have finally released a new single, bearing word of a debut album set to be released next February. Having burst onto the scene in January last year with debut single “Athens, France”, released on acclaimed label Speedy Wunderground, and following it …
SEE: Bastien Keb releases a video for the bone-chill beauty of ‘Rabbit Hole’
RIGHT. First things first, and full disclosure: we adore Bastien Keb over here at Backseat Mafia. His latest album, The Killing Of Eugene Peeps, is so brilliantly eclectic, multifaceted, genre-busting, that we’re running out of superlatives for it. It weaves together chilling. beautiful acoustic tunes, the best of Italian soundtrack jazz (Nicola Conte, Piero Piccioni), …
Track: Motionless In White – Creatures X: To The Grave
Motionless In white have shared a Halloween gift to their fanbase in the shape of a brand-new standalone single, Creatures X: To The Grave The band’s frontman Chris Motionless explains that while the single is brand new, at the same time it’s a throwback to their acclaimed debut album, Creatures; “After ten years of the most insane highs and lows …