Folk
Track: Allegra Krieger – Welcome
Taken from her forthcoming ‘The Joys of Forgetting’ album, out on August 7th via Northern Spy Records is ‘Welcome’, the new single from Brooklyn singer-songwriter Allegra Kreiger. If the track, Krieger explains: “Welcome is about opening your life up to someone and letting defenses down. Learning to live with & love them through good & bad.” Rustic and …
TRACK: Bastien Keb’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ has a bone-deep 3am chill
AS renaissance men in the underground music scene go, Bastien Keb has to be near the top of the pole. Reckoning himself to be a guitarist first and foremost, he’s also adept on the trumpet, bass, drums, piano, flute, among other instruments: be they bought, borrowed, donated or found. Wearing another hat as a composer …
See: Catholic Guilt sign to Wiretrap Records and release new track Song Of The Renter
Signing to California based Wiretap Records recently, Catholic Guilt have now upped their street cred and are set to be one to watch for the end of 2020 and into 2021. Their new EP ‘This is What Honesty Sounds Like’ will be out this August through Wiretap, and will herald a world beating partnership. With …
Premiere: The Brothers Landau – Haven’t Got A Name
Los Angeles based The Brothers Landau, aka David and Daniel Landau are releasing their new EP on August 28th. Ahead of that they’re releasing the rather lovely indie-folk of ‘Haven’t Got A Name’ on June 23rd, and we’re delighted to be premiering it here today on Backseat Mafia. Of the track, the brothers told us …
SEE: Siv Jakobsen’s ‘Anywhere Else’ is a fragile folk arrow to your chest
RISING Norwegian folk artist Siv Jakobsen has a voice that is at once sibilant and honeyed, yet so, so fragile. And in a recent Instagram post, she confessed that her current single, “Anywhere Else”, the video for which you can watch below, has a real fragility of experience at its core. She said: “I wasn’t …
TRACK: Red River Dialect frontman shares ‘Ballad of Ross Wyld’
DAVID MORRIS, proud Falmothian and singer with Red River Dialect – the six-piece who’ve brought us some of the most vital of British folk-rock over the past decade – has shared a solo sketch. Described by David as “a lockdown love letter to my housemates”, “The Ballad of Ross Wyld” strips back the layered instrumentation …
SEE: Sally Anne Morgan spins fine Appalachian Thread for Thrill Jockey
STEPPING out on her own after underpinning the work of acclaimed fellow travellers such as Appalachian purists The Black Twig Pickers, it’s time for Sally Anne Morgan to take a little of the limelight. She has released “Thread Song” ahead of her debut full-length set, Thread, for Chicago’s eclectic and rather cool Thrill Jockey imprint, …
SEE: unsettling Aberdeenshire folk noir from Fair Mothers
A TREMULOUS, held guitar note, fed through fuzz and vibrato, with the raw quality of a wire fence shuddering in the wind; a darkly delicate piano arpeggio, as if remembered from the end of sleep. The tune has the quality of a haunted fairground under brooding skies. And so we’re into the dark world of …
See: Woahnows frontman Immy reveals new video for Anyone, Anywhere
Sometime lead singer / writer of Woahnows, Immy, has released new video of his track ‘Anyone, Anywhere’. The Bristol musician had first donated the track to his label Breakfast Records compilation record which was to raise money for his hometown charity Caring In Bristol, but now he’s made a video with housemate Jonathan Minto of …
Track: Riun Garner – Fabric
Out right now is Fabric, the new single from Canadian singer-songwriter Riun Garner. It’s the follow up to his much lauded debut single Trouble that saw him gain not just the interest of music fans, but of the organisers of the 2020 Canadian Songwriter Challenge, who promptly signed him up. Of the song, Garner says …