Folk
NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’
GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her last album, Pastoral, held a mirror up to the steadfast old folk tales and traditions of Merrie England, fucked that mirror into unimaginable and truer …
EP REVIEW: Matilda Mann – ‘Because I Wanted You To Know’
A more captivating follow-up for young but accomplished London songwriter
ALBUM REVIEW: Cabane – ‘Grande est la maison’
Meditative, soothing chamber-folk from the long-standing collaborative project – a lockdown soundtrack
SEE: Emma Miller – ‘Set Me Down’: piano-led lusciousness from Elgin
EMMA MILLER is a folk singer-songwriter with a very delicate and potent touch to her tunesmithery who, as so many of us do, left for the bright lights of London – but who also had the perspicacity and vision to shut that door again and leave for another, better way. She’s been releasing music entirely …
TRACK: Lizzie Reid announces debut EP; hear ‘Always Lovely’
YOU HAVE to say, rising Essex indie imprint Seven Four Seven Six can count its blessings in enticing emerging Glasgow songwriter Lizzie Reid to its ranks. She’s announced her debut EP, Cubicle, for the label, which’ll be out on January 22nd; in celebration of which she’s shared a track from it, “Always Lovely” – which …
Track: James Yorkston- Upcoming album ‘The Wide,Wide River’ + preview track ‘Struggle’
Warm, natural, humorous, gentle, empathic ….all words that justifiably get bandied about in the scrabble to describe James Yorkston’s music. What is often overlooked is his calm navigation of different pathways around the songwriting landscape, quietly opening the gate onto something new. He’s worked with Kieran Hebden, Simon Raymonde, Rustin Man and Alexis Taylor over …
ALBUM REVIEW: Laura Fell – ‘Safe From Me’: an incredible voice, a brilliant debut
A truly splendid and gorgeous debut set from this incredible new singer-songwriting talent demands room in your life
ALBUM REVIEW: Denison Witmer – ‘American Foursquare’: soothing Philadelphia folk
Asthmatic Kitty announces a physical release for the soothing new album by PA songwriter
Premiere: Jordan Paul releases new video for the charming and melancholy ‘Archetype X’
If you fell for Canadian singer-songwriters ‘Strange’, which turned into something of a lockdown anthem, we’ve got good news for you. We’re premiering new visuals for his latest single, ‘Archetype X’, right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the single, Jordan told us exclusively “Music is an everlong means of survival; something I feel I …
PREMIERE: Nancy Gaffield and The Drift – ‘Song Of The Shingle’: Kent’s High Weald evoked in music and poem
THERE’S been a little upswell in recent times of interesting and brilliantly evocative collaborations exploring the spoken word and the poetic, and how that plays against music. Slowly unfolding atmospheres, words chosen carefully, set to reduce to a fine and rich sauce, every syllable counting. The touchstone for me is Will Burns and Hannah Peel’s …