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See: Anna B Savage reveals new video for ‘Dead Pursuits’
There were some dark times for London-based singer songwriter Anna B Savage following the success of her 2015 debut EP, suffering with a sense of imposter syndrome. Her new single, the second to be released via the brilliant City Slang label, Dead Pursuits was written at this low point of self esteem. With it’s feet …
TRACK: James Dean Bradfield ‘There’ll Come A War’ & ‘Seeking The Room With The Three Windows’
James Dean Bradfield has released two new tracks. There’ll Come A War/Seeking The Room With The Three Windows are both available on June 26th. Two very different views of the forthcoming album, There’ll Come A War is a pensive, low slung threat of a track that points to the conflict yet to come. While Seeking The Room With The Three Windows is pure ascension, an instrumental with energy enough to ignite a dying star. …
SEE: King Charles’ plea to ‘Feel These Heavy Times’
DANDYISH London troubadour King Charles has released the video for a new lockdown song, “Feel These Heavy Times”. It’s a sweet and hushed pleas for togetherness and love in straitened times: “I know you know life’s not fair / Maybe that’s why revolution’s in the air”. The video features self-filmed clips of fans at home …
Premiere: We Are Waves – SELVA
Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere the new video from Italian post-punk/synthwave band We Are Waves for their blistering new track ‘SELVA’. Brewed and percolated in lockdown conditions, the wave of innovative and very exciting music from Italy continues unabated in this track: a hybrid of electronic industrial drive and straight out indie rock. The …
Track: Curtis Jay – Calling Me
Sussex born producer and DJ Curtis Jay is releasing his new single ‘Calling Me’ officially on July 17th through the record label he runs with his Dad (former owner of R&B label Urbanstar) House label Xzooberant Records. Originally written and subsequently shelved by Curtis sometime last year, Calling Me is this warm, immediately lovable House Tune, with …
TRACK: Eyes Of A Child by Christine & The Queens
…written as a theme tune for the second series of hit Amazon Originals ‘Hanna’ takes Christine to another level through sheer force of its sensitivity, poise and delicious tenderness.
SEE: Esrevoinma by Lapalux
Stuart Howard’s moniker Lapalux is short for ‘lap of luxury:’ I’m not sure what that refers to – but the music certainly does have a velvety goodness about it, immersing and bathing us in a sensory overload of beats, bass and sci-fi invoked emotion, waxing with introspection and emotional fantasy. His latest offering of “post-apocalyptic …
Track: Gungfly – Happy Somewhere In Between
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Rikard Sjöblom has recently announced a new album under the Gungfly moniker, ‘Alone Together’, set for release on the 4th September 2020. In preparation the band have shared the first single ‘Happy Somewhere In Between’ Rikard comments: “I wanted to write an upbeat prog-rocker about a subject I was reading about, and got intrigued by: the dynamics …
SEE: Emma Swift’s gorgeous ‘Queen Jane Approximately’
AUSTRALIAN chanteuse, Nashville resident and partner of Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift has saddled up to ride into your hearts with the video for her cover of Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately.” Hell, it’s beautiful. She takes it for a deep spin towards Gene Clark country, and lays it down as a chiming weary tune, with 12-strings …
Track: Native Harrow release new single ‘Shake ahead of forthcoming ‘Closeness’ album
For over 20 years the Loose label has built its canny reputation on sifting out the best Americana and alt.country for your listening pleasure. The Felice Brothers, Sturgill Simpson, The Handsome Family, Hurray for the Riff-Raff have all passed through their doors and now it looks like Native Harrow, The Pennsylvania duo of Devin Tuel …