Electronic
Premiere: King Shoji – Untitled [8], plus interview
Prolific Detroit electronic artist King Shoji keeps his incredibly creative and prolific streak up with a new album on Muzai Records, Vortex. Which drops on May 29th. It’s a nine track ‘Suite’ of tracks, crafted in these lockdown times, it’s supposed to be listened to as a whole, rather than in parts, but despite that, …
Track: Body Meat – The Well
Body Meat is the project of Salt Lake City born producer Christopher Taylor, a man who’s father once played Conga’s for Earth, Wind and Fire, so who has been surrounded by music, and in particular rhythm, his whole life. He’s just released a new single The Well, and it’s a genuinely interesting and ingenious piece …
Track: Two Door Cinema Club release cover of John Lennon’s ‘Isolation’
In these lockdown times we all need help with a lot of things, from the mundane and everyday to the life-saving and life-changing. So it’s heartwarming to see Two Door Cinema Club do something practical about that, and re-record John Lennon’s Isolation to help raise money for Ireland’s leading social justice charity, Extern. Money raised …
Track: Lyfe Indoors – Put you down
Mysterious (or at least anonymous) bedroom pop project Lyfe Indoors has return with a new single, Put you down. Operating since 2014 and spending long Summer’s indoors writing (hence the name), it’s taken from an album to be released later in the year. Of the track Lyfe Indoors says “Did I miss the chance, for some …
Track: Attilio Novellino- Strängar 1
June 2020 sees Italian musician Attilio Novellino’s first release on Forwind simply titled Strängar (Strings) features four tracks of piano variants, electronics and electroacoustics. “Contemporary electronic music seems to need extra-musical meanings and a specific concept to be listened to. This can be claustrophobic at times. For this record I was direct, talking only about …
Droppin’ Knowledge: New Single from Equiknoxx’s Time Cow featuring Birmingham MC RTKal
Time Cow, of the electro-reggae-dancehall outfit Equiknoxx, releases a new video single, Elephant Man, featuring the Birmingham emcee, and frequent Equiknoxx collaborator, RTKal. The video, which is a tribute to eccentric dancehall star Elephant Man, is a minimalist take on the genre, with percolating, sinister percussion, waves of synthesizer and a jumble of jump cuts …
Track: Sophie Hunger – Everything is Good
Everything is Good is the name of a David Shrigley design, owned by Swiss multi-lingual singer-songwriter Sophie Hunger. It’s also the name of her new single, taken from her forthcoming album Halluzinationen, out on August 28th via Caroline International. Drawing comparisons to the likes of Sharon Van Etten is understandable when you listen to Everything …
See: Minimal Animal release new video for Don’t Even
Former Screaming Maldini main man Nick Cox is always welcome here on Backseat Mafia. Until their untimely split in 2014, they were almost universally accepted amongst our writers as our favourite band, which made it virtually unimaginable why they were everyone’s favourite band. He’s carried on making music in various ways and guises since, and …
Album Review: Nick Hakim: – Will this make me good
Brooklyn based Nick Hakim asks the questions with his new album, principally that. Will this record, this piece of art make him good. As a person or as an artist is less clear, but it’s one of many he asks as he struggles to comprehend the world around him. For much of the build up …
See: No Joy release new video for Birthmark
Jasamine White-Gluz in her No Joy guise has announced a first fill-length album in 5 years, Motherhood, is to be released on August 21st via Joyful Noise, and she’s heralded the return with a single ‘Birthmark’ along with its video, available for streaming right now. Of the track, Jasamine says “In the studio I wanted …