gothic
Album Review: Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits take us on a sorrowful and visceral journey with a touch of redemption in ‘For The Term of My Natural Life’.
Matt Malone, along with his band the Holy Spirits, bleeds pain, anguish and sorrow from every note in his new album ‘For The term Of His Natural Life’, and every track cuts with a visceral knife. And yet wallowing in such a dark shadowy world is utterly cathartic and immensely enjoyable. Whether this is some …
News: REZZ drops a goth-inspired, rocktronic ”Its Not A Phase” EP
‘IT’S NOT A PHASE’ is the latest project from Canadian midtempo mastermind REZZ, a goth-inspired, rocktronic EP that will thrill both dance and alternative fans alike. With collaborations from rock/alt heavyweights such as Silverstein, Grabbitz, Tim Henson of Polyphia, and Johnny Goth, REZZ pushes far beyond the boundaries of midtempo bass music. The collaborations ‘Embers’, ‘Signal’, …
Album Review: Lunar Twin releases the frosty shimmering chill of ‘Aurora’: a glacial adventure in gothic pop
It’s been two years since US electro-goth outfit Lunar Twin released their magnificent album ‘Ghost Moon Ritual‘ back in April 2020: a point in time when we were oblivious to the full force of what was to come around the globe. Now, the band is back with their new album entitled ‘Aurora’., out through Tropical Depression …
Premiere: The Florin Arc exclusively unveil their epic new single ‘As I Rode Out Of The Cane Field Fire’: a gothic, alt.country journey into the outback.
We are honoured to premiere today the new single ‘As I Rode Out Of The Cane Field Fire’ from the New England (NSW) duo The Florin Arc. With a razor sharp production from Hugh Cook that you could cut yourself with, and a sweeping, weeping string undercurrent, this is a rich, lush track that seems …
Premiere: Seasurfer unveils the video for the electronic fuzz of track ‘Something Very Bad’, featuring Stereoskop
We are very honoured to premiere the new video from shoegaze/goth maestro Seasurfer for the track ‘Something Very Bad’, featuring vocals from Susana Egea, the singer from the Spanish band Stereoskop. Seasurfer is the nom de plume of Hamburg-based artist Dirk Knight, who draws in other musicians to contribute to his electro-fuzz goth sounds. The …
Premiere: Joshua Murphy’s haunting and atmospheric track ‘The Fault Was Lain There Too’ gains a chilling black-laced gothic video, released ahead of debut EP ‘Lowlands’.
We are very pleased to premiere the video for the track ‘The Fault Was Lain There Too’ from Australian-born Berlin resident, the multi-Instrumentalist and songwriter Joshua Murphy. The track is a dark gothic tale with a velvet soft delivery and a haunting refrain. Like compatriot Nick Cave, the tone is that of a southern preacher, …
Premiere: Seasurfer unveils a mesmerising video for the celestial dream pop classicism of ‘My Own Eyes’.
We are very honoured to premiere the new video for the track ‘My Own Eyes’ by Hamburg artist Seasurfer. Last year’s album ‘Zombies‘ caught our attention for its mélange of goth-tinged electronica and dream pop, and Seasurfer – essentially now the solo work of Dirk Knight – is back with an EP entitled ‘Jump To …
Track: Melbourne’s Georgia Knight experiences ‘Hell on Bent Street’ – a brilliant dark prowling vision of the underbelly of life.
‘Hell on Bent Street’, title track for Georgia Knight‘s forthcoming EP, is a prowling track that ebbs and flows with a visceral cutting edge, teetering on the brink of a dark chasm. The guitars clatter with an ominous intent over the driving rhythms, and Knight’s vocals are wrought with a resolute despair, from a whisper …
Album Review: Prudence’s ‘Negatives’ takes us into the heart of darkness – an ominous, brooding collection of treasures that glitters in the void.
With psychedelic-inflected vocals, nuanced and louche, the ghostly apparition that is Tom Crandles’s musical project Prudence has just released ‘Negatives’. It is a gothic-flavoured collection that reflects the period of turmoil over the last few years, bleeding through every pore, and yet seems to offer a glimpse of hope in the end. Opening track ‘Introduction’ …
Premiere: NYC’s London Plane exclusively unveil the epic and anthemic title track to their forthcoming album ‘Bright Black’.
NYC’s London Plane have exclusively unveiled to Backseat Mafia the scaling, anthemic title track to their forthcoming album ‘Bight Black’, out through Declared Goods on 17 June 2022. The track, available on Wednesday, 20 April 2022, is an exciting post-punk, new wave influenced slice of gothic-tinged pie, replete with scything, mountainous guitars and a thunderous, …