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Listen: Mark Lanegan Band – Letter Never Sent plus tour
Fewer voices in music are as recognisable as Mark Lanegan. The ex-Screaming Trees frontman has felt like a sought after collaborator with some of the big names across the decade. Be it his work alongside Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli (The Gutter Twins) or his regular appearances alongside Queens of the Stone Age, Lanegan makes …
Track: Minor Pieces – Rothko
One word can be used to describe Minor Pieces new release – Rothko and that is beautiful. The duo of Ian William Craig and Missy Donaldson together under the name Minor Pieces are due to release their debut album titled ‘The Heavy Steps of Dreaming” since getting together in 2017. Some might be already familiar …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: White Shape – Perfect Dark
Illinois’ psych and drone rockers White Shape are set to release their new album Perfect Dark on Little Cloud Records on 6 September and BSM is pleased to bring you the premiere of their new video, title track ‘Perfect Dark’. The record appeals to an extensive audience. Whether you want cerebral psychedelic, body moving rhythm, …
EP Review: Greta Stanley – Sun In My Eyes
It’s the spaces in between the ethereal beauty of Greta Stanley‘s vocals that make her music so mesmerising. Think later stage Radiohead – delicate, sometimes sparse, musical pattering serving and augmenting the song and the voice. Stanley has long impressed us here at Backseat Mafia and ‘Sun in My Eyes’ displays a stunning musical progression, …
See: Walt Disco – Past Tense
Walt Disco explore endings in their unique style on deliciously dark new single ‘Past Tense’. The Glasgow-based five-piece – James Potter, Lewis Carmichael, David Morgan, Calum Kennedy and Mashu Harada – have released their new single ‘Past Tense’ (out now) via Los Angeles based singles label IHC 1NFINITY. The track was recorded at Glasgow’s Chem19 …
See: One Nine – Difficult Days
One Nine provide the rays of hope during these dark times with debut single ‘Difficult Days’. “You know we care, you’re running out of time” sings Neil Mulholland on One Nine’s debut single. It’s a pertinent message considering the unsettled current political climate around the world and our overheating planet. The appropriately titled ‘Difficult Days’ …
See: The Shaking Sensations reveal new video for ‘Sightings’
How Are We To Fight The Blight? is the new album from Copenhagan based Post-Rockers The Shaking Sensations, out on October 4th on Pelagic Records. From it they’ve released a new video for the single ‘Sighting’, a follow up to their towering first single, Tremendous Efforts, and is a Mogwai-esque exploration of lush yet muscular, dreamy …
See: KOKOKO! release Boiler Room Session, plus world tour dates
KOKOKO! revealed the extent of their brilliance to the world with the release of their debut album Fongola, which came out earlier in the month via the ever brilliant Transgressive Records, and to accompany the release of video taken from their Boiler Room Session, they’ve also announced details of a World Tour Working since 2016 …
Track: Minimal Compact – Statik Dancing
Influential Dutch post-punks Minimal Compact have announced a new album – ‘Creation is Perfect’, is being released via October 25gh via the bands own Minimal Compact label. It contains new versions of tracks from the bands back catalogue, which dates back to their formation in 1980. From it the band have released their new version …
TRACK – 4’33 – THE NORMAL
Despite creating Mute Records, launching Fad Gadget and Depeche Mode, and then blazing a trail with Yazoo, The Birthday Party and a zillion more to become the indie label of all time, founder Daniel Miller’s moniker, The Normal has been strangely quiet since 1978. His one release, ‘TVOD/Warm Leatherette’ that initially launched the label was …