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See: Soft Palms release new video for ‘Rainbows’
Soft Palms are husband and wife team Julia Kugel (The Coathangers, White Woods) and Scott Montoya (formerly of The Growlers) and ahead of their self-titled debut album, out on July 31st via Everloving Records the pair have released a new video for the track ‘Rainbows’. Rainbows has this gloriously ethereal quality to it, Julia Kugels …
See: Dehd release new single/video – ‘Loner’
Chicago trio Dehd – aka Emily Kemp on vocals and bass, Jason Ball on vocals and guitar and drummer Eric McGrady have announced their new album ‘Flower of Devotion’ is out on July 17th via Fire Talk, and ahead of it they’ve released a new track/video for lead single ‘Loner’. “It’s okay to be lighthearted …
Track: Lyfe Indoors – Put you down
Mysterious (or at least anonymous) bedroom pop project Lyfe Indoors has return with a new single, Put you down. Operating since 2014 and spending long Summer’s indoors writing (hence the name), it’s taken from an album to be released later in the year. Of the track Lyfe Indoors says “Did I miss the chance, for some …
EP: Venus – Wicked Things
Rock Queens – ‘Venus’ have released their first EP ‘Wicked Things’ available now from the bands Bandcamp. Lead singer GK, says; ‘With it being our first body of work, wewanted to take both ourselves and our listeners on a journey.Life can be sporadic with what it throws at you, it doesn’t everseem to slow down …
Premiere: Garsa – The Devil’s Own
After releasing a stunning debut earlier this year, (‘Jimmy sour highs‘) solo artist Martin Garside, operating under the name Garsa, is back with another perfect slice of dream pop/ shoegaze in ‘The Devil’s Own’, which Backseat Mafia is proud to premiere. This is a beautiful release, infused with an air of wistfulness and yearning and …
Track: Crack Cloud – OUSTER STEW and announce release of new album
Vancouver collective Crack Cloud have announced their new album ‘Pain Olympics’ due July 17th via Meat Machine. The follow-up to the group’s critically acclaimed 2018 EPs – Crack Cloud and Anchoring Point. The band hit UK and Irish shores for a run of shows in November in support of Pain Olympics. Dripping with an 80s attitude and featuring a drum …
Track: IDLES – Mr Motivator
IDLES lead the way in explosive passionate punk, and we here at Backseat Mafia have always closely followed their upward trajectory with the greatest of joy. Now, deep in the arms of general world misery, they have released a thundering, joyous single ‘Mr Motivator’ replete with a video that that shows while we are apart, …
Track: Richard’s Orchestra – Amazing Sunrise
In the midst of the rather oppressive age of isolation, Italian band Richard’s Orchestra have released a single that is infused with a sense of bucolic joy – fitting given the band comes from the gorgeous area of Reggio Emilia. ‘Amazing Sunrise’ is a trippy, psychedelic song, seemingly born out of the sixties, haunting and …
Track: Moon Panda – Slow Drive
Moon Panda follow up last month’s delicious ‘Rick F***in Dalton’ with another tasty slice of ethereal dream pop with the single ‘Slow Drive’. Singer Maddie Myers’s voice floats and glides over a bubbling surface of shard-like guitars and synths, mesmerising and hypnotic: ‘Slow Drive’ captures that hard to remember feeling of roaming freely along country …
Track: Self Defense Family – Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your Floor
Following ‘Leeds’, which dropped last month, and ‘Long Island’, which they released earlier this month, prolific Cohoes, New York-based post-punk collective Self Defense Family have unveiled ‘Australia’, the latest in a series of 7″ singles the band have named after their recording locations. The single’s A-side is titled ‘Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your …