Indie
Track: Ilja Alexander releases the emotive dream pop of Berlin
The latest single from Dreampop artist, IIja Alexander, ‘Berlin’ is out now on various listening platforms via Green Monk Records. With an atmospheric keys driven intro, distinctive vocals follow, Berlin builds to an Electronica-infused reveal. Combining memorable vocal hooks with a beat and synths/keyboard, the listener is put in the mind of Electronic music pioneers, …
SEE: The video for Cheval Sombre’s ‘Curtain Grove’: a thrilling, delicate highlight from his new album; a song of the year?
WE’RE a way towards the release of Chris Porpora, aka Cheval Sombre’s, first album in eight years, Time Waits For No One; brighter days to come, seasonally and musically, for sure, come February 26th. It seems serendipitous that, with the ‘rona and the lockdown and all, the globe has wound down to Cheval Sombre’s pace just …
Exclusive: Monokino records Bend or Break live for Backseat Mafia in an At Home Sessions
Dutch composer George van Wetering has been releaseing doses of his odd-ball pop for a while now under the moniker of Monokino, and we were struck by the brilliant ‘Bend or Break‘ he brought out at the end of last month. He’s worked with the likes of Tony Visconti and Kristee Young as well as …
Track: Thrillhouse release another dazzling piece of funky indie brilliance in the track ‘Flawed Design’
Brighton’s most enigmatic and, in my humble opinion, underrated band, Thrillhouse have launched the new year with another superb single – ‘Flawed Design’. Over the past few years, Thrillhouse have released some of the most exciting and innovative music – exhibiting both a strong songwriting craft, dazzling levels of musicanship and above all a creativity …
NEWS: A reissue for chamber-pop masterpiece ‘A Life Full Of Farewells’ by The Apartments
Known as the darker brother of The Go-Betweens, Peter Milton Walsh’s career has recently been revamped, also thanks to the collaboration with a few French labels, Microcultures and Talitres. The latter has now announced that they are reissuing A Life Of Farewells, a 1995 album previously only available on CD from the original release. The …
See: Death From Above 1979 reveal new video for One + One
With news of their fourth album ‘4Lovers’ fresh in our minds, Death From Above 1979 have released a new single, One + One, out now via Universal Music Canada / Spinefarm. It’ll be the band, aka Sebastian Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler’s first new music since 2017’s ‘Outrage! Is Now’. Of the track, Sebastian Grainger …
EP Review: Crossfire Eagles – ‘Major Arcana’: New seven-track release from Sheffield indie rockers
There’s a moment in BBC 4’s ‘Smashing Hits! The 80s Pop Map of Britain and Ireland’ when some old boy talks about how you could walk down any street in Sheffield and hear the Human League rehearsing at one corner, ABC at another and Def Leppard at a third. That tradition of South Yorkshire rock …
SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: the album’s delayed, but it’s so worth the wait
AS HIS second solo album for Drag City approaches, LA’s Cory Hanson – Wand frontman and on his own clock, potent (and a little dark) psych-country explorer, has released a third single, to follow the deep grace of “Paper Fog” and the dark-hearted brilliance of “Angeles”; waiting, we’re told, placidly for end of days, a …
NEWS: Belgian shoegazers Slow Crush reissue ‘Aurora’; see the new video for ‘Aid And Abet’
IF YOU’RE the kinda person who likes shoegazing to be actual, y’know, shoegazing – that deep, complex bleed of guitars and thicketed, soundscapes, the one which Slowdive do in an unparalleled way – then maybe you need to become acquainted with Slow Crush, the darker perfumed Belgian band fronted by Mancunian Isa Holliday. The band’s …
Premiere: Colin Cannon releases new video for ‘Ing Right I’
Taken from his new album ‘McGoldrick’, out February 26th via Infrequent Seams, ‘Ing Right I’, is the new song from Colin Cannon, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it on Backseat Mafia today. As with the previous track from the album Cannon released, Get Up, it travels through Jazz, fusion, post-rock, electronica to …