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SEE: Fenne Lily releases new single ‘Berlin’
DEAD OCEANS’ newest signing, Bristol-based Fenne Lily, will release her new album Breach on September 18th. Today, she offers the defining moment on the record, “Berlin”, a careful, beautiful declaration celebrating comfort in being alone. Speaking on the single and the accompanying video, a lovely animation by Henry Dunbar, Lily states: “It reflects both the comfort and claustrophobia …
Track: The Ghost of Helags – Parallel
After the stunning single ‘Chemistry’, followed by an exclusive Live in Session with Backseat Mafia (if you haven’t already – go and subscribe), Berlin residents The Ghost of Helags are back with a gorgeous ambient-filled track ‘Parallel’. It is a shimmering slice of euro-disco electro-pop that thrums and vibrates with an insistent rhythm and driving …
Droppin’ Knowledge: Rap Icon Jeru The Damaja Shares New Song – “Power”
Legendary artist Jeru The Damaja has released a new song, “Power,” the first single from his forthcoming album, Home Cookin‘. The stark video, which Jeru shot himself, from his home in Berlin, is a conscious assessment of the current state of affairs in the United States. In the song, Jeru urges people of all races …
Premiere: André Uhl reveals new video for Maximum Success
Berlin based André Uhl has today revealed exclusively via Backseat Mafia the new video for his single ‘Maximum Success’, out on 25th June. It comes from his forthcoming album Relax and Implode, to be released on Berlin-based label Martin Hossbach on October 16th 2020. Of the track and video, André told us “I’m thinking a lot about …
Track: The Ghost of Helags – Chemistry
Ghosts of Helag have released an absolutely gorgeous slice of sweet synth pop in their new track ‘Chemistry’. Layers of bubbling synth stream under melancholic, mesmerising vocals, evoking a sense of a dreamy dark landscape and endless, restless movement. Indeed, according to singer Teresa Woischiski, the track was born out of a night time journey: …
Say Psych: Premiere: Gunman & The Holy Ghost – Into The Setting Sun
Gunman & The Holy Ghost is Hákon Aðalsteinsson; a talented front man who is renowned for his versatile work, for example as part of the Berlin based band The Third Sound. After the Icelander struck camp in his home country and decided to built up a new life in Berlin, he needed more than one output …
See: Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem
In anticipation of their forthcoming album, ‘Alles in Allem’ (All in All) on 15 May 2020, legendary Berlin industrial band Enstürzende Neubauten have released an imperial and highly elegant video for the title track. Featuring the eminently theatrical and enigmatic front person Blixa Bargeld with spectacular eye make-up on organ, and black and white vignettes, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Die Wilde Jagd – Haut
Die Wilde Jagd is the music project of producer and songwriter Sebastian Lee Philipp. With the aid of his coproducer Ralf Beck and various guest musicians, he created a self-titled debut album in 2015 and a highly praised follow-up disc, Uhrwald Orange in 2018. The band’s third album Haut is scheduled for release on Bureau …
Track: Ben Lukas Boysen – Clarion
Ahead of the release of his forthcoming ‘Mirage’ album, out on 1st May via the brilliant Erased Tapes label, Berlin based composer and producer Ben Lukas Boysenhas released a new single, ‘Clarion’. Of new single ‘Clarion’, Ben tells us that “this song started as a simple piano line and while listening to it on loop over …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Pretty Lightning – Greyhound
German duo Pretty Lightning are today announcing their fourth long-player Jange Bowls, set for release on 20 March via London-based label Fuzz Club and BSM brings you the premiere of the first single, ‘Greyhound’. For over a decade, the duo comprising Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas have been busy dealing in swampy, fuzzed-out delta blues …