indie videos
See: Gwenno releases new video for ‘Tir Ha Mor’
Here at Backseat Mafia towers we’re in a state of high excitement about Le Kov, the second album from Gwenno, due for release on March 2nd via Heavenly Recordings. Following on from 2014’s Y Dydd Olaf, which was one of our favourite records of that year, she’s just released a new video for Tir Ha …
See: Holly Miranda reveals new video for Exqusite, featuring Kyp Malone
Holly Miranda is readying herself for the release of her new album ‘Mutual Horse’ on February 23rd on Dangerbird. It’s the fourth studio album from the former member of Jealous Girlfriends, and Karen O sidewoman, and on it she’s collaborated with a number of artists, including My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Nova and Grandaddy/Modest Mouse’s Jim …
See: Pond release video for Fire in the Water
Pond fans will either have snapped up the digital reissue of their 2017 album The Weather which dropped this week, or picked up an exclusive 7” vinyl which was given away at their sold-out residency shows at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club last August, but if you haven’t it’s warm, instantly lovable pop-psych, complete with …
See: Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly release visuals for VHS Forever ahead of first new album in four years
After a four year hiatus, Sam Duckworth aka Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly is back with a new album, Young Adult, which drops on 19th January via Xtra Mile. He’s lost none of his charm in the intervening period, as VHS Forever attests, as he casts a almost raucous, brass heavy spell on the listener, …
See: Car Seat Headrest reveals video for Nervous Young Inhumans, plus album news and tour dates
“It was never a finished work,” Will Toledo aka Car Seat Headrest says of his 2011 Bandcamp album Twin Fantasy, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” With the success he’s had over the last year, he’s now tackled the record again, re-recorded and re-imagined it, and it …
See: Pale Waves release video for New Year’s Eve / announce North American tour, plus UK/EU dates
Manchester three piece Pale Waves have today been announced as part of the prestigious BBC Sound of 2018 Shortlist, taking the #5 spot. It the latest in a spectaular year for the band, who have been the toast of tastemaker town (I just thought of that, is it too cheesy) with much expected of their …
See: Dream Wife release new animated video for Hey Heartbreaker
Much is expected (and rightly so) from Dream Wife’s debut self-titled album, which drops later on this month (January 26th) through Lucky Number. The band have just released a new single ‘Hey Heartbreaker’, a stomper of an indie rock track, which grabs hold of the spirit of the Go-Go’s, dresses it up in Riot Grrl …
See: The Go! Team release new video for Semicircle Song
Ahwad of Brighton indie funk outfit The Go! Teams new album Semicircle, out 19th January via Memphis Industries, they’ve released a new video for the albums first single ‘Semicircle Song’. For the album, the band apparently envisaged envisioned a marching band going rogue and chucking away their sheet music to blast out Northern soul stompers, …
See: Protomartyr reveal new video for Don’t Go To Anacita
Taken from Protoartyr’s acclaimed new album Relatives in Descent, Don’t go to Anacita is cut from keen observations of touring, although Anacita itself is fictional. It’s good time indie/punk rock, propelled by these driving drums and razor sharp guitars and singer Joe Casey’s gutteral drawl. The surreal video, inspired equally by obvious touchstone ‘Stairway to …
Video and News: Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, Over Everything
This must be the most perfect laconic, low-fi alt.country indie music match in history – Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile are releasing an album together entitled “Lotta Sea Lice”, due out on 13 October 2017. First release off the album is the song “Over Everything” and it is everything you would expect from these two …