Electronic
TRACK: PET SHOP BOYS – I DON’T WANNA
Fourth single from their latest album – ‘Hotspot’ Pet Shop Boys release ‘I Don’t Wanna’ from the synth pop duo via their own label x2. ‘I Don’t Wanna’ would not be out of place if they released it at the start of their career and not when entering their 4th decade of music making. They …
Premiere: Lucy Dreams release new video for ‘The Journey’
Vienna duo Lucy Dreams have today released their new video for The Journey, the single that came out last week on Austrian label Prueckl Beats, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. What started out as an Audio-AI became, at least in the minds and imaginations of the …
Feature / Playlist: Every track (on Spotify) for every John Peel festive 50
Over on our Spotify page, alongside all the playlists we’ve received from artists, albums of the year, our monthly playlists, psych playlists, classic DJ sets, not forgotten series and other delights (you should really check it out and follow some of them), we’ve added a new, mammoth playlist – every track currently on Spotify from …
See: Chromatics release new video for ‘Teacher’
We’ve been waiting a while for news of Chromatics ‘Dear Tommy’ album, so to get a video, a statement from Johnny Jewel on the track and then the album track listing is good news for all. Teacher is this peerless slice of warm synthpop, all cascading sounds, blurry synths sounds and this gorgeous ethereal vocal …
TRACK: I BREAK HORSES – THE PROPHET
With I Break Horses new album ‘Warnings’ due for release on May 8th via Bella Union, and having previously shared ‘Death Engine’, ‘I’ll Be The Death Of You’ and ‘Neon Lights’, I Break Horses have shared new track ‘The Prophet’. For the follow-up to 2014’s Chiaroscuro, Maria Lindén decided to take the time to make something different. An emphasis on instrumental, cinematic music, Maria made her own …
Track: Dive Index – Near Enough (feat. Merz)
Out right now is the new single from Dive Index, essentially the project of electronic composer / producer Will Thomas, and comes ahead of his new album Waving At Airplanes, due out on 29th May. The track features Acclaimed multi-instumentalist Merz on vocals, and he lays down this rather lovely emotive line under which Thomas …
Track: Christine & The Queens – I disappear in your arms
Christine and the Queens has announced her new single ‘I disappear in your arms’, is out now and lifted from her surprise EP she released earlier in the year. It’s getting a vinyl and cd release via Because Music on May 29th. I disappear in your arms is effortless in so many ways -effortlessly melodic, …
Track: Jneiro Jarel – Banana Peel (Cáscara De Plátano)
Out now, and taken from his forthcoming After a thousand years album, out later in the year on Far Out Recordings, is ‘Banana Peel’, the new single Brooklyn producer Jneiro Jarel. It’s been a long road for Jarel, who had an ischemic stroke while living and working in Costa Rica, shortly after signing the deal …
Album Review: Enter Shikari – Nothing is true & Everything is Possible
The St Albans bred quartet question everything with their outlandishly ambitious new record, Nothing is True & Everything is Possible. Coming off the back of their 2017 record The Spark, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Enter Shikari couldn’t possibly take their experimentation to more extreme lengths; but you would be completely mistaken. Their sixth …
Track: Oh My My – Sipping The Bottle
Sydney horror pop duo Oh My My have released a new single, Sipping the Bottle ahead of the release of their debut EP, and a handful of NSW dates. Talking of the track, Sam Thomlinson from the band says, “It’s about drinking wine in the middle of a cricket pitch,” he explains, “under a sleeping bag, at …