Indie
Track: Anika reveals first new music in eight years – new single Finger Pies
Berlin based Anika, British ex-pat and former political journalist, Tricky and BEAK> collaborator collaborated with BEAK>,has announced her first new music in eight years – a single called Finger Pies, along with an accompanying video. Of the track, Anika says A song that never had a name, like an artist that never had a face. …
See: Molly Burch releases video for new single, Control
Having just announced her fourth studio album Romantic Images is coming out on July 23rd via Captured Tracks, Austin based singer-songwriter Molly Burch has revealed the new video to lead single Control, directed by Jackie Lee Young alongside Burch herself. Showcasing a new more confident sound after the anxiety of her twenties Control is this …
Meet: We chat with the legendary Ed Kuepper (The Saints, Laughing Clowns, The Aints) about his long and distinguished career, setting parameters as an artist and continually learning.
To celebrate a stunning 45 years in the industry, the legendary songwriter and guitarist Ed Kuepper has announced the release of three LPs that celebrate his post The Saints years as a solo artist and with the Laughing Clowns and The Aints, as well as news of an Australia wide tour in June and July. …
Premiere: Restless Leg announce new album and release the glorious single ‘The World’s A Room’
We are delighted to premiere the new single ‘The World’s A Room’ from Sydney’s brilliant Restless Leg, ahead of the release of their album ‘Dream Buffet’ in June. Restless Leg cement themselves in the pantheon of antipodean jangle indie rock with this glorious single. It has a classical guitar-based sparkle with a shimmer and verve …
EP Review: Graywave unveils the seismic dream pop delight ‘Planetary Shift’
Here at Backseat Mafia, we have been lauding the dream pop aural landscapes Graywave has created through a series of singles released over the past year. Graywave – the nom de plume of West Midland’s multi-instrumentalist Jess Webberley – has now released an EP entitled ‘Planetary Shift’ through the boutique Brisbane label False Peak Records, …
Track: New Zealand’s The Datsuns explode back into the ether with ‘Dehumanise’ and announcement of a new album.
It is recommended that you have your emergency contacts nearby when you intake the new single ‘Dehumanise’ by New Zealand’s Lords of Loud, The Datsuns. It has the full force a bolt of electricity administered by a faulty defibrillator and the effects will be felt in your ears hours after administration. And what a cathartic …
See: The Elephant Trees – ‘Day 42’: counting the lockdown days with breezy indie funk
DOING the good and steadfast work, Leeds’ Come Play With Me is one of those organisations whose praises we should all sing; deeply involved in supporting the Leeds grassroots scene by way of its singles clubs, concert promotions and compilations (last year’s Come Stay With Me raised funds for musicians losing out in the pandemic, …
See: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘I Feel Fine’: LA dream poppers’ smooth, vampiric caress sets us up for their July album
LOS ANGELINO trio Tashaki Miyaki really do put the dream into dreampop, with a deliciously languorous, hazy cast to their music, which seems to call on the Mary Chain, Lush, Hole, Mazzy Star, soothe them into a shoegazey drowse; and they’ve a new album, Castaway, out now on July 2nd – slightly delayed – on Metropolis Records. The new …
EP review: Phoebe Bridgers reworks songwriting magic with ‘Copycat Killer’: an EP for dreamers and lovers
ENCOURAGED by the international success of her award-winning and Grammy-nominated album Punisher, the phenomenal Phoebe Bridgers has set out and reworked four tracks off the album into a vinyl release, Copycat Killer. It’s a move seldom seen by singer-songwriters, at least not this early in their career, and on first glance I’m reminded of the …
EP Review: RedHook release the explosive and very therapeutic EP ‘Bad Decisions’ and announce tour
It is hard to classify Sydney band RedHook – there is an electronic buzzsaw blitz with thundering percussion and at times a blistering wall of noise, all wrapped up in a sparkling pop mantle, with hip hop shades and choruses. It’s heavy metal psycho pop. But, throughout their new EP ‘Bad Decisions’, there is a …