Dimple Discs
Premiere: We Have An Exclusive Stream Of The Debut Album by Keeley – ‘Floating Above Everything Else’
We are very excited here at Backseat Mafia to get an exclusive stream of the exceptional debut album by Keeley, fronted by singer, guitarist, songwriter and enigmatic Dubliner Keeley Moss, the day before it is released via Dimple Discs. The record comes with a fascinating back story as all of the songs are about the same subject matter …
Premiere: Stump’s whispering foil Kev Hopper returns for Dimple Discs – hear the rubbery baroque pop excellence of ‘The Dog Walker’
STUMP were one of those ultra-Peel bands, like The Noseflutes, Bogshed, The Fire Engines, who sorta belonged to the (no doubt press-confected) ‘shambling’ movement of the Eighties – Beefheartian, collapsed, askance, freakishly fun, revealing truths about the world from an oblique perch above it all. They had an all-too-brief moment of notoriety in the public …
See: Telefís – ‘Falun Gong Dancer’: Cathal Coughlan leads us round the weary world in sparse, grandstanding piano
CATHAL COUGHLAN has always been the straight-As kid with the (slightly demonic) pearly white smile and the pocket of stinkbombs in the school hall of indie music; he can’t resist pulling things sideways, to see how they look from somewhere to left of where they might otherwise or properly be. But he does it with …
News: Dimple Discs to stage Sack, Keeley and Dragon Welding at the legendary Lexington next month
DIMPLE DISCS, the small-is-beautiful home of Damien O’Neill, Cathal Coughlan and others, is staging a trio of bands associated with the label at Islington’s legendary The Lexington early next month – and on the bill are cult Dublin combo Sack, who’ll be appearing in London for the first time in 20 years. The quintet who …
Premiere: Cathal Coughlan and Jacknife Lee ready for broadcast as Telefís and offer you ‘Mister Imperator (Maurice and Charles remix)’
MICRODISNEY fractured so long ago now, but their end birthed two great talents to the world, so not all was lost; Sean O’Hagan gave us the baroque brilliance of The High Llamas, and Cathal Coughlan – who we’re concerned with here today – led us on a pied piped and merry dance to weirder, more …
Album review: Dragon Welding – ‘The Lights Behind The Eyes’: a new ambient folk for a beleaguered island from The Wolfhounds’ six-string sufi
IF YOU consider yourself a fan of great British guitar music and you haven’t investigated the canon of East London-Essex borderlands’ The Wolfhounds, then jeez, do you ever need to put that right – immediatement. Coming out of the C86 wave of bands and featuring on that legendary/infamous tape (please delete according to personal taste) …
See: The solarised dazzle of Dragon Welding’s ‘Scorched Sea’: a furnace extrusion of white-hot instrumental guitar
THE WOLFHOUNDS’ Andy Golding, one of the most potent wielders (welders?) of a guitar in operation in these tarnished isles today, is releasing only his second solo album under his anagrammatic Dragon Welding moniker in May, in which he sets sail into the possibilities of instrumental guitar. It’s gonna be an excellent journey, that album, …
Premiere: See the video for Dragon Welding’s ‘Lights Behind The Eyes’: The Wolfhounds’ Andy Golding steps into ambient guitar wonder
DRAGON WELDING; a great name, redolent of fire and the elements, of flicker and sulphur, things made and remade in heat. A great name. And once you learn it’s the solo project of The Wolfhounds’ foremost guitarchitect Andy Golding, the six-string sufi who led that band out from the early swamp blues of “Cut The …
SEE: Cathal Coughlan – ‘Song Of Co-Aklan’: Cork’s devilish genius is once more to the breach
CATHAL COUGHLAN, the devilish genius behind such acts as Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, has always been a joyous thorn in the side of Irish alternative music; erudite, scathing, never afraid to tread his own, rockier path. He’s been away a decade – how did that happen? – yep, the last missive from Cathal-land was …