indie videos
See: Jetstream Pony reveal new video for ‘If Not Now, When?’
With an all star cast of the indie great and good – Beth Arzy (The Luxembourg Signal, Trembling Blue Stars, Aberdeen, The Fireworks, Lightning in a Twilight Hour) on vocals, Shaun Charman (The Wedding Present, The Popguns, The Fireworks) on guitar and Kerry Boettcher (Turbocat) on bass, with Hannes Mueller (The BV’s, Endlich Bluete) on …
See: Choir of Young Believers – Hollow Talk
Very new to Backseat Mafia as I am I didn’t know which section to submit this to. Eventually I selected Track/Video but could equally have requested Film (although ‘TV’ would be more appropriate) or Not Forgotten. It belongs in all of them and none of them. Aficionados of BBC4 and its Saturday night foreign drama …
See: Yore drops new video for the grunge-tinted shoegaze of ‘Bon Mot’
A heady dose of lo-fi, grunge-tinted shoegaze, Yore have dropped the debut single ‘Bon Mot’ off of the self-titled debut album set for release December 4 via FLAT FIVE Records. The new exciting project from one of the busiest people in music today, being Hackney Wick based multi-instrumentalist Callum Brown (Ulrika Spacek, Mint Field, Josefin …
See: Arlo Parks reveals new video for ‘Hurt’
Arlo Parks has released a brand new video for her track, premiered as it was, as the Hottest Record on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Show. It’s the follow up to her recent lauded single Black Dog, which has received almost 10 million streams worldwide. Of the new track, Arlo says “‘Hurt’ surrounds the possibility …
See: Melt Yourself Down – new single and video – Born in the Manor
Melt Yourself Down are an important band. Revolving around saxophonist Pete Wareham (a key player in punk jazz pioneers Acoustic Ladyland) and Kushal Gaya (vocalist with the much missed genre busting experimentalists Zun Zun Egui) the collective have been crashing barriers since their foundation in 2012, laying the road wide open for the recent rush …
SEE: The beautiful noir diary of The Last Dinosaur’s ‘In The Belly Of The Whale’
A FEW weeks ago, yr humble scribe bet the farm a little bit while completely enraptured by The Last Dinosaur’s “Wholeness & The Implicate Order” (and anyway, isn’t this what we want from music? To transport us, elevate us, make us throw normal order to the wind?). The writer – and by the writer, I …
See: Shamir returns with new single and video, ‘Running’
Ahead of his upcoming self-titled album, out on October 2nd, Philadelphia indie/R&B star Shamir has released a single and video, ‘Running’, which delves into toxic friendship groups, mental health and gender dysphasia. “‘Running’ is a song I wrote about a time in my life when I was a part of a toxic friend group where …
SEE: The Last Dinosaur’s ‘Wholeness & The Implicate Order’ now has a short film
THE LAST DINOSAUR is the musical nom-de-plume of Jamie Cameron, of whom we said the following when he first trailed “Wholeness & The Implicate Order” last month; and which we unashamedly reproduce herein. “THERE is out there, in the wide pantheon of pop, a neat little galaxy reserved for the absolute auteur, the sort of …
See: TV Coma release new video for single ‘Congratulations’
Brighton based power-pop trio TV Coma have released a new single, Congratulations, recounting a fiery farewell with a former lover, and to go with it they’ve released an accompanying video to go with it. Of the track TV Coma’s vocalist Leo says “It’s about the unexplored paradigms of modern relationships. As the first humans to …
See: Pillow Queens reveal new video for Holy Show
Pillow Queens have returned with a brand new video for single ‘Holy Show’, the follow up to the much lauded Handsome Wife which dropped in June and put them firmly on our radar. It’s taken from their album In Waiting, which drops on September 25th via Stargazer Records. Holy Show sucks you in with these …