Electronic
EP: Oscar Jerome- Breathe Deep Remixes
Although it’s been robbed of its live connection this year, the UK Nu- jazz train has kept up the momentum with a roll of dynamic and defining releases. Oscar Jerome’s ‘Breathe Deep’ album was one of those touchstones. It saw the KOKOROKO guitarist and super collaborator (with buddies like Shabaka Hutchings, Moses Boyd and Yussef …
Album review: Ane Brun – ‘After The Great Storm’
HUMILITY, honesty and heart are three key elements of Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun’s music. With a voice that puts you within emotional touching distance plus an eye for visuals that demand attention, each release since her debut in 2003 has marked a restless need to refine, reflect and tell truths. Yet since 2017’s exquisite collection …
Premiere: Death By Piano release new visuals for Nightwalk
Following on from its release last Friday, NYC dark-pop duo Death By Piano have released new visuals for their single ‘Nightwalk’, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Nightwalk is the final instalment in a trilogy of 2020 releases, and minxes up atmospheric synths and electronics with soaring guitar sounds. …
Track: Django Django release new track, The Ark
Following on from event single ‘Spirals’, which marked the return of the ever brilliant Django Django, the band are back with a new track ‘The Ark’, previously only available As a b-side on the vinyl version of the Spirals single. Glittering, cascading synths and sprawling electronics make up instrumental The Ark, with these acid sounding, …
Premiere: Post Yoga release video for brilliant new single, ‘Phil’
POST YOGA is the nom-de-plume of Bristol musician Chris Barrett, who began making music under that moniker after buying a £4 charity shop keyboard. Recorded on the floor of his friends flat using just a cheap Yamaha keyboard (it’s sadly unclear if its the same £4 or another similarly procured model) he’s releasing a new …
Track: Conor Houston to release new single ‘Outside the Grocery Store’
Out on November 20th is the new single from Sheffield based Conor Houseton, titled ‘Outside the Grocery Store’. Written in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, it’s a song that resonates through society across the world right now. Of the record, Houston says, ‘I was in a writing mood around June, and nothing else …
Track: Battles release Stirling Bridge (DJ Diary & DJ Orient (Black Midi) Remix)
What makes a remix? Take the best bits of your stuff and plenty of my stuff and make it sound like ME or take the essence of mine and the heart of yours to make something new? I know what I go for, the remix that sounds like collaboration, made from respect, taking the music …
Track: Pet Grotesque Share Psychedelic-Funk Banger ”Pingin Alone”
Hailing from South London by the way of Yorkshire, comes psychedelic-funk tinged bedroom popster, Pet Grotesque. A busy chap, Pet Grotesque also combines time playing in Speedy Wunderground outfit Tiña as well as having been a Goat Girl’s touring keys player. Despite the busy times, following up from the balearic banger ‘Scratch’ Pet Grotesque has …
Album Review: Tommy Lee – Andro
You don’t have to read the Youtube comments under the videos for the album singles to realise he’s upset a lot of his long term fans. Instead of Lee dropping a glam metal album we would all expect, he has taken 2 years to craft something different, yet uniquely Tommy Lee. The album features a …
Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’
As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album Room(s), released on Planet Mu, came the same year as the Sepalcure, a collaboration with Praveen Sharma aka Braille, self-titled debut album. He’s since gone …