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Track: Oscar Jerome – Give Back What U Stole From Me
Oscar Jerome sure knows how to build up momentum. Hot on the heels of two recent singles, the glowing soulful ‘Sun for Someone’ and the politically charged ‘Your Saint’, comes a third teaser ‘Give Back What U Stole From Me’. This time around Jerome delivers some super pumped jazz funk, all clipped scat-rap, deep bass …
Track: Lianne La Havas – Can’t Fight
Following on from the glorious Paper Thin we covered here on Backseat Mafia, Lianne La Havas is back with another taste of her forthcoming eponymous third album with a new track, Can’t Fight. Produced and co-written by Mura Masa, it talks of a struggling relationship. Of the track, Lianne says “You know it’s not good, …
Track: Hiro Ama – Broken Satellite
“This EP is a mixture of feelings like sadness, loneliness, confusion, hope and nostalgia” says Hiro Ama of his debut solo EP. “It was a bit like writing a diary, only I wrote music instead.” The sometime Telemann drummer is releasing the EP, Uncertainty, on August 14th via PRAH Recordings, and from it he’s given us a taste …
See: Sébastien Tellier releases new video for A Ballet
With his album Domesticated out on June 5th, everything is in full flow in the Sébastien Tellier camp, and he’s released a new video for the single A Ballet, as if we weren’t excited enough. Tellier’s sixth album delves into the changes between being carefree and single, and then suddenly having a Wife and Children …
See: Dream Wife release new video for ‘So When You Gonna…’
Dream Wife recently released the accompanying video to “So When You Gonna…”, which continues on from previous singles “Sports!” and “Hasta La Vista”. The tracks will feature on the band’s subsequent album, arriving July 3 from Lucky Number, with the latest track “So When You Gonna…” being its title track. The video takes the wildly …
See: The Levellers release new video for Calling Out
The Levellers, the Brighton band, who for the last 30 years have been blending Folk, Rock and Punk with a large serving of pop sensibility and poignant lyrical themes, are back! They have a new single ‘Calling Out’, taken from their incoming album ‘Peace’ (Out 14th August) accompanied by a music video. The song is classic …
See: Riskee and the Ridicule share video for ‘Blue Jacket’
Riskee And The Ridicule from Kent, have shared this wonderfully in your face piece of lyrically angry, yet musically smiling, art. In a time of rising nationalism, fuelled by a political landscape that leaves the needy behind, and an anti EU feeling that has been polarised by a Brexit vote that also divided the nation. …
See: James Vincent McMorrow releases video for ‘Headlights’
After three years of hush, James Vincent McMorrow marks his return with a soul warming new track ‘Headlights’. It’s a song that builds carefully and purposefully to reach that point of uplift that he so often achieves in his music. As James says himself ‘I wanted Headlights to start in a plaintive humble place and …
Track: Attraktors – Theme from unknown program
Made up of members from Julian Cope’s band, Six by Seven, Bivouac, The Selector and Nectarine No. 9, Nottingham trio Attraktors, and is taken from their forthcoming self-titled album on DJ, musician and producer Ali Renault’s Vivod label on July 3rd. From it they’ve released a taste in the shape of a track ‘Theme from …
Track: Low Hummer – Picture Bliss
Hull quintet Low Hummer have just released their new single ‘Picture Bliss’ via Dance to the Radio Records. It’s the follow up to recent cut ‘The Real Thing’ and is a little taster of what might be on their debut EP, out later in the year. Of the track, one of the bands singers Daniel …