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Premiere: Ski Lift release new video for the exuberant indie pop of ‘Portal’

South London trio Ski Lift are gearing up for the release of their new single ‘Portal’, out tomorrow (12th March) and the follow up to their 2019 debut ‘Comfortable Here’,…

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Track: Fresh – Girl Clout

London punks Fresh return with new track ‘Girl Clout’ via Specialist Subject records. ‘Girl Clout’ is a musical embodiment of frustration and pure visceral anger. “I wrote it in two…

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Premiere: Morningside Lane reveal new video for Home Crowd

Out tomorrow is the new single from New Jersey alt-pop/rock band Morningside Lane ‘Home Crowd’, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today.…

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News: Falle Nioke and sir Was announce joint EP; hear ‘Rain’

FORWARD-thinking indie labels are fast beginning to celebrate the soulful connection between dancefloor-slanted electronica and the rhythmic foundations of anything dubbed ‘world’ music. So right on cue Moshi Moshi offshoot…

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Say Psych: Track Review: Veik – Political Apathy

French post-punk trio Veik have just released ‘Political Apathy’, the second single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album, Surrounding Structures, due out 30 April on Fuzz Club Records.…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Urdog – Long Shadows 2003-2006

Long Shadows is a retrospective of Urdog, the work of a mercurial band whose music may have been summoned from fog and ghosts yet possesses considerable staying power beyond their…

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Track: The Fuzzy Nerds – ‘Grasshopper’: Greek post-rock nugget gets a new video

WHAT do we know of The Fuzzy Nerds. the band whose excellently quietLOUDquiet song, “Grasshopper”, we’re taking a look at herein? Not absolutely loads, we’ll freely admit, but a scour…

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Track: Mint Julep’s ‘Pulse’ is a drop of electro-shoegaze brilliance

MINT JULEP, the halcyon, dreamy musical confection of Hollie and Keith Kenniff (aka Goldmind), are to release a new album, In a Deep & Dreamless Sleep, on Western Vinyl on…

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Premiere: Astrid Cordes to release new EP, Beautiful Mess; hear it here, first

Taken from music made for the hit Danish TV series Doggystyle, Shy Shy Shy vocalist Astrid Cordes is releasing her debut EP ‘Beautiful Mess’ this coming Friday (12th March), and…

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Premiere: George Bloomfield reveals the hazy jazz-funk of Why Didn’t You?

Leeds singer-songwriter George Bloomfield is gearing up for the release of his debut EP ‘Why Didn’t You?’ on May 7th, and ahead of it he’s releasing the title track from…

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