Electronic
ALBUM REVIEW: Love, Death and Dancing – Jack Garratt
Jack reeks of vast genius and ecstatic potential yet proves himself the perennial champion of self-sabotage. I’d love to hear that scrapped album…
Premiere: Tristan Welch – Asset / Defect
Washington D.C. experimental artist Tristan Welch has returned with a new single Asset / Defect, out tomorrow and taken from the cd of the same name and we’re delighted to premiere it today on Backseat Mafia. Welch specialises in creating soundscapes using electric guitars and effects, and has active since the early 2000’s, his outlook …
Larry Pink The Human – Might Delete Later
Following on from their debut single Love you, bye, Larry the Pink Human, aka Slaves Laurie Vincent and producer Joylon Thomas are back with the follow up – Might Delete Later. Regarding the single LARRY PINK THE HUMAN say, “MIGHT DELETE LATER is about a realisation of self. Titled with a common phrase used to …
EP: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – I can hear birds
Written in the first weeks of Isolation, ‘I can hear the birds’ is the new EP from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs’, aka Orlando Higginbottom. As can be ascertained from the title, Higginbottom was influenced by birdsong, louder than ever in the lockdown days, sending musical greetings cards to friends. Orlando takes up the story “….On …
Track: Jimmy Edgar – Bent (feat. Hudson Mohawke)
Out via Innovative Leisure right now is ’Bent’, the new track from Jimmy Edgar who has enlisted the help or fellow electronic a-lister Hudson Mohawke for a futuristic collaboration. Opening as this wonky loop, Bent gradually flowers as beats, wonky electro lines and snatches of vocal are added, and skill fully shuffled around to make …
Bob Holroyd – Hiding In Plain Sight
Composer and sometime collaborator with the likes of Coldcut, Four Tet, Francois K and Mogwai, Bob Holroyd has released his first new material in two years, a track called ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’, out now. Written about isolation and the loneliness people suffer even in the social media age we live in, it feels like …
Track: LIFE – Switching On (Idles Remix)
Following on from the release of their recent single Switching On, Hull band LIFE have shared a new remix by Bristol’s Mercury nominated scamps, Idles. The remix was done by the bands guitarist and friends of LIFE, Mark Bowen, who says of the remix:“I have watched LIFE play live well over 100 times and one …
Track: Rival Consoles – Articulation, plus album news
Ryan Lee West aka ‘Rival Consoles’ and the esteemed Erased Tapes label go back a long way, the Leicester born musician was their first signing, and now thirteen years later that relationship is still going strong. The partnership have just announced details of the new Rival Consoles album ‘Articulation’ for release on 31st July and …
Feature: Transglobal Underground give us a Track by Track on their latest album, Walls Have Ears
There’s always been a slight mystique around Transglobal Underground, and they’ve always determinedly followed their own path. With some made up names and a squad of collaborators than have revolved and evolved over time, they’ve been fusing together elements of Western, African and Asian music since they burst onto the scene in 1991 with Temple …
See: Juju Wings release new video for Escapism 101
Taken from their forthcoming album Hello Friends, due out in October comes the new single from Juju Wings, Escapism 101. It’s the second in a series of single releases taken from the album, and calls on an unspecified partner to enlist on an adventure. It’s this dreamy slice of electronic / synth pop, with synth-lines …