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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Jacob Barlow
And we back… For this week’s edition of Behind The Boards, western Michigan producer and graphic design artist Jacob Barlow is in the house. Barlow uses a wide palette in his production work. He is adept at creating trappy beats that would sit comfortably underneath hardcore rappers like Westside Gunn, and the other members of …
TRACK: Magick Mountain – ‘Infinity X2’: a garage-punk rush outta Leeds
LEEDS’ psychedelic scuzz-rock power trio Magick Mountain have been around the block a bit to get to a place of infinity times two. Singer Lins Wilson has found the ideal three-piece environment in which to let that red hair flail and make that garage guitar fuzz and howl. She’s served her time on the Leeds …
Meet: We chat to Salarymen plus review their sparkling single ‘Runaway’
Out of the depths of a Sydney winter (a rather benign concept, I admit), Salarymen have released an absolutely delightful ray of sunshine in the form of the single ‘Runaway’. Infused with a dappled sunlight aura and recalling the kind of hedonistic joie de vivre epitomised by the swinging sixties in the form of Serge …
See: Mines Falls release video for single ‘Hey Mother’
L.A. duo Mines Falls at a pair of brothers who work in film and design during the day, and make moody electro heavy pop music by night. Ahead of their self-titled debut album out on September 18th, they’ve released a new single/video, Hey Mother. On the song, singer Carson Lund says, ‘“Hey Mother” is the earliest …
See: Greentea Peng releases new video for ‘Hu Man’
Over the last few months, South London singer-songwriter Greentea Peng has quickly become a favourite of ours here on Backseat Mafia, so we jumped on her new single Hu Man, which is out now, produced by long time collaborator Earbuds. The song, in her own words, hints at deeper meanings “YOU man, me man, WE …
Track: Callum Easter releases new song – Tell em Boy
Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it ‘Tell em Boy’. Of the process the album took, Easter says “The premise was to record the versions of the songs I’d been performing live …
TRACK: Alex Jayne – ‘Backseat’: the city from a taxi with an acoustic guitar
ALEX JAYNE, the London grown-up pop songwriter with an eye for the odd side of life, has revealed her latest track, “Backseat”. She’s following “90s Dream” , in which, surreally, she imagined attending her own break-up movie, with this sweetly sung, intelligent slice of acoustic pop, observing the city from her taxi home. She said: …
Track: Dokken Share Second Single ‘No Answer’ Taken From Their Lost Songs Album
“No Answer” is the second single to be taken from Dokken’s new record The Lost Songs: 1978-1981 out 28 August, Silver Lining Music, an album which is a treasure trove of unheard tracks from the early years of one of the most celebrated bands in the history of Metal. Read more about the album here Classic heavy rock with …
TRACK: Pole – ‘Röschen’: Berlin textural ‘tronica legend is back; new album in November
BERLIN’S Stefan Betke, digidub mastering legend and masterful glitchtronica/deep groove recording artist in his own right as Pole, has announced details of his new album for Mute, and has also shared the first teaser for it in the shape of “Röschen”: listen with us, it’s embedded below. His eighth straight studio set – leaving aside …
SEE: Marie Davidson & L’Oeil Nu – ‘Renegade Breakdown’: electro chill and strength
MONTREAL’S Marie Davidson, veteran of that city’s DIY scene, musical polymath, fierce declaimer; like Grace Jones, you wouldn’t mess, frankly. Have a watch of the lyric video for the latest track “Renegade Breakdown”, which she’s just dropped for Ninja Tune and see if you’d dare. It’s a pulsing, dirty slice of electro-house over which Marie …