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Exclusive: Lucy Kruger records ‘A Stranger’s Chest’ live in session for Backseat Mafia

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Premiere: Johnny Cyrus and His Band of Ghosts – Longevity I (EP)

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We’ve already waxed lyrical about The Know, husband and wife duo Daniel Knowles and Jennifer Farmer and their EP WeAreTheKnow. Bringing to bear his previous experience with shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire, they make sweeping, attractive indie rock, with a certain scuffed shoegaze sound. Such was the case with the track who’s video we’re premiering right …

We’re delighted to premiere the new single from Lucy Dreams – Know My Number this morning here on Backseat Mafia, and equally delighted that they are currently recording an At Home Session for us, which will be live on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks. Please support the channel and subscribe if you can. …

We were very taken with Bolton singer-songwriter James Holt’s recent single ‘Pendulum’, so we we’re absolutely delighted that he agreed to record an At Home Session for us here at Backseat Mafia. He’s recorded three tracks – Pendulum and recent single Mystery Girl bookend a lovely version of Albert Hammond’s It never rains in Southern …

We’re delighted to premiere ‘Falling’, the new track from Romanian band PUBLIKA. Although its their first foray into the UK market, they’re very much a fixture at home, appearing on the biggest TV shows and working with multiple labels. Sitting somewhere between Keane and Depeche Mode, Falling has this electro-rock feel about it, with winding …

We’re absolutely delighted here on Backseat Mafia to premiere to the track from Groan Room, called Get Off. If the sort of track that wraps it’s way around you and squeezes out any resistance you might have had. Guitars that struggle to stay leashed, tension that built and released and this sort of sweet slacker …

Fake Turins is the 10 piece North London audio-visual collective led by Dominic Rose. Their new single is out tomorrow (June 10th) and ahead of it we are delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. Legs is a commentary on the movement our bodies make, despite what might be going on in our …

We’re delighted here on Backseat Mafia for Les Nuby’s single ‘Never Falling Away’, taken from his debut solo album ‘Clouded’, out July 10th via Cornelius Chapel Records. If you’re not familiar with Nuby’s CV, it’s extensive. Starting out as a drummer in the 90s indie rock power house Verbana, he’s a one time touring member …

Leeds art-rockers Sang Froid have returned with the second of three singles they’ve recently recorded, Lachrymose, and we’re delighted to be premiering the accompanying video right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Ais- the bands vocalist/keys player, says “This song is a simple mirroring of what I hear in my head all day, …

Earlier this month we premiered the new video from North London’s Yaglander’s Straight and Narrow, and we were so taken with his laconic Mark E Smith vs Cate Le Bon thing, we asked him to record the song in lockdown session style, and he’s come up with the goods and only gone and done it. …

Hot off the press and ahead of their new album Stockholm, out at the end of the month, we’re delighted to be premiering the new track F.I.L.A. (Falling in love again) from The Milltown Brothers right here on Backseat Mafia today, ahead of its release on a streaming platform near you tomorrow. We adored the …