Indie
Premiere: Results of Adults release new video for brilliant new single, Man Meets Machine
Taken from their forthcoming album Interstellar Peach Delight – out on May 7th via Cornelius Chapel Records, Man Meets Machine is the new single from Birmingham, Alabama indie-psych band Results of Adults, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere the accompanying video for the track right here on Backseat Mafia today. The band; led …
Premiere: Anomic Records release new live session from noise-rockers Errorr
Anomic Records, the new label out of Berlin have released a new session video from noise-rockers Errorr and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Set up as a reaction to Berlin’s decaying rock scene, and offering both digital and physical releases from bands that fall within the …
Premiere: The Ricos – ‘What Comes Next?’: Philly’s excellent indie four-piece drop a video for their righteous noise-pop single
PHILADELPHIA indie outfit The Ricos, whose Spirit State EP we adored last year in the heights of lockdown summer, have put together a video for their cracking single, “What Comes Next?” which we’re premiering here on Backseat Mafia today. It’s a lovely autumnal swirl of the sweetest six-string indie noise-pop that reminds us – with …
Album review: TEKE::TEKE – ‘Shirushi’: a deliciously wonky, delectably trippy psych debut
RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and Bo Ningen, down through the garage-rawk of Guitar Wolf and the dreamy, trippy-hippy psych of Ghost, new and deeper appreciations of how to wield and …
See: The lyric video for the cosmic Americana pop drop of Lou Barlow’s ‘Love Intervene’
WITH a first solo album in nigh on six years just cusping the horizon – it’s called Reason to Live, it’ll be out at the end of the month on Joyful Noise Recordings, and you can find out where to snag yourself a copy down at the end there – and following the chiming, heartfelt loveliness of “Over …
Track: Melbourne’s Oceans unveils the shimmering track ‘Break My Fall’ and announces the release of EP and launch
Melbournite Thomas Lee works under the name Oceans and his new single ‘Break My Fall’ is an immersive and delicious track with subtle switches between a shoegaze drone and a dreamy pop fugue. Lee’s voice haunts in the distance beneath a simmering razor-sharp guitar and synth wash, infused with a detached melancholia and indelible melodies. …
EP Review: Italian shoegaze outfit 7Mondays release sky-scraping debut EP ‘Sent’
Italian duo 7Mondays have just released their debut EP ‘Sent’: a collection of three songs that draw strongly on a shoegaze sound tempered with a touch of emo and post punk rock. The EP is topped and tailed by an intro and outro effects. Opening track ‘What’s Best to Die For’ is a shifting, changing …
Album Review: Merk’s ‘Infinite Youth’ is an exquisite exploration of the end of childhood innocence and the transience of life
New Zealand artist Merk is the moniker of Auckland, New Zealand artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mark Perkins, who began his career as a touring member of Tom Lark and Fazerdaze. I reviewed his single ‘Laps Around The Sun’ earlier this year finding it to be yearning, raw and melodic, with a deep melancholia reflecting on …
Album Review: All India Radio emanates waves of glorious, glittering signals with the immersive ‘Afterworld’
There is a mesmerising aura to All India Radio‘s absolutely magnificent album ‘Afterworld’ that spills forth a series of incredible beautiful moments that glitter and shine. This is an album that immediately send you into a blissful reverie with its quiet, ambient movements that are emotional and affecting. The album is a connecting whole – …
Track: Tyne-James Organ continues to shine with the shimmering, poignant new single ‘London Calling’, and announces tour dates
Tyne-James Organ’s previous single this year, the delightful ‘Sunday Suite’, was a perfect fit – filled with sunshine and melody highlighting Organ’s sparkling vocals (read our review here). The follow up to this is just as terrific. ‘London Calling’ dons a parachute to slow down the descent but nonetheless is an epic delight: a reflective …