Andy Bell Archives - Backseat Mafia

Meet: Andy Bell talks to us about his new album Pinball Wanderer

Andy Bell has always been an artist in motion, whether pushing sonic boundaries with Ride, crafting intricate solo work, or lending his talents to various collaborations. His latest album, Pinball…

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Track: Andy Bell signals new album with hazy cover “I’m in Love”

Andy Bell’s cover of The Passions’ 1981 post-punk gem, I’m in Love with a German Film Star—retitled i’m in love…—is a lush reimagining that doesn’t stray far from the original…

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News: Ride announce new album ‘Interplay’ and provide a delicious taste of what’s to come with the shimmering ‘Peace Sign’.

The new single ‘Peace Sign’ from the magnificent Ride signals a shimmering return for the band with a more melodic and layered direction with its euphoric chorus and sparkling sounds.…

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News: Andy Bell announces his GLOK debut album proper; dive into the electro gleam of ‘Maintaining The Machine’

HAVING released a series of vinyl format singles, the Ever Decreasing Circles triptych, following his superb album from last autumn for Sonic Cathedral, The View From Halfway Down, and also…

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See: Andy Bell’s ‘See My Friends’ 10″ is out today; watch the video for the gloriously electronica-psych Pye Corner Audio remix of ‘The Commune’

ANDY BELL’S delicious Ever Decreasing Circles series continues today with a rather too desirable yellow vinyl 10″, the See My Friends EP. The EP features the two tracks from Andy…

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Track: GLOK – ‘That Time Of Night’: Andy Bell drops a surprise electro shimmer

HE’s NOTHING if not prolific these days, Andy Bell; the muse must properly be with him. Not content to announce a string of 12″, 10″ and 7″ epilogues to last…

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News: Andy Bell announces trio of EPs and a compilation; see the GLOK remix of ‘Indica’

RIDE guitarist, singer and sonic explorer Andy Bell has announced a series of three EPs and a compilation to keep you satiated with leftfield shoegazey pop supreme right the way…

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SEE: Andy Bell releases a trippy, solarised video for the lovely ‘Skywalker’

YOU KNOW him so well, of course, as one of the creative forces behind shoegazing legends Ride; and when Andy Bell stepped out from the boys from OX4 last autumn…

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SEE: Andy Bell – ‘Cherry Cola (Pye Corner Audio remix)’

AS his GLOK side-project shows, Andy Bell is a shoegazing legend who really isn’t afraid to embrace the tronica; in the spirit of which, the latest single he’s released from…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Bell – ‘The View From Halfway Down’: superb psych-pop solo set

The View From Halfway Down is an eclectic and heady mix of psych, folk, tronica, baggy looseness and more - and nary puts a foot wrong. An absolutely excellent solo set

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