Indie
News: Embrace Get Their First Vinyl Reissues For Albums ‘Out Of Nothing’ And ‘This New Day’
Embrace, one of the most successful UK bands of the ’90s and ’00s, are set to reissue their chart-topping albums Out of Nothing and This New Day for the first time on 180-gram vinyl this October 30th on Craft Recordings. This New Day will be available worldwide and Out of Nothing will be available worldwide excluding North America. The long-sought-after reissues were cut at London’s Metropolis …
SEE: Le Volume Courbe – ‘Fourteen Years’: Charlotte returns with brilliant quirkiness
WENDING my way through a particular tributary of my record collection the other day, I came across a lovely, lofi 7″, characterised by the mint and cream swirl artwork of Alan McGee’s post-Creation imprint, Poptones; it was Le Volume Courbe’s quirky folk tune, “Papillon De Nuit”, an idiosyncratic and alluring essay in pigeon coos, downhome …
See: NZ Legends The Bats release video for ‘Another Door’ off their forthcoming album ‘Foothills’
The delights of a new The Bats track are akin to seeing the first buds on a tree in Spring after a particularly gruelling winter. And it certainly has been a horrible six months that have been leavened by the little sparks of music that have kept us all going. News of an imminent album …
Premiere: The Bachelor Pad reveal new video for Meet the Lovely Jenny Brown
Well yes and no, if that’s your question. Yes, there’s a new record from the all too briefly Brilliant The Bachelor Pad, the Strathbungo, Glasgow based psychedelic indie poppers who scored big (at least on tunes, and scruffy brilliant ones at that – and influence) with their solitary album – 1990’s Tales of Hofmann and …
Premiere: LE JUNK reveals new single and visuals for ‘Level 3”
London producer LE JUNK’s new single, Level 3, is out today on Naked Superstar Recordings and we’re delighted to premiere it, along with the Elliott Gonzo directed accompanying visuals, right here on Backseat Mafia today. Produced by Dan White (Buff Records) the track is lyrically at least, a metaphor of a love song, advocating treating …
TRACK: The Dawdler – ‘Crocodile’: a pristine guitar-pop thrill
THE DAWDLER – the brilliant North-East singer-songwriter known to friends and family as John Edgar – has today released a second song from his forthcoming debut EP Sign of Growth for his new home, Akira Records. It follows the heartbreak of last month’s “Lava Lamps”, the elegy for a lost friend which, with T-shirt sales …
See: Ferris & Sylvester release live video for new single, ‘Knock You Down’
Ferris & Sylvester have released a live video for their new single ‘Knock You Down’, the latest song to be taken from their forthcoming EP ‘I Should Be On A Train’ out 2nd October via LAB Records. The live video is the second in a series filmed during lockdown at Streatham Space Project in London, and follows the release of the ‘I …
ALBUM REVIEW: Cabbage – ‘Amanita Pantherina’: Mossley marauders aim for the jugular on their second
MOSSLEY – you pronounce it Mozzley, chaps, hard S – is a small milltown up in the hills north west of Manchester, where the soil gets thin, the rushes spring through the steep meadows; where Manchester as a greater conurbation gives up its last and prepares for the bleak moors of Yorkshire ahead. It’s also …
Premiere: Divest – Time Well Spent
There’s something in the Scandinavian air that’s producing some pretty special music. This time around, it’s Divest, a Norwegian indie pop band that are premiering their new album ‘Time Well Spent’ on Backseat Mafia. This is as far as you can get from a bleak Nordic winter: it’s bright, sparkling summery pop that canters forth …
Track: Keaton Henson releases new track ‘Husk’ ahead of forthcoming album
Keaton Henson’s music deserves all the devotion and respect it gets. From his cavernously personal home recorded debut ‘Dear’ in 2012 to the more recent tense and tormented orchestral ‘Six Lethargies’ he always makes that emotional connection. His songs, his experiences become yours. Whispers about new Henson song-craft began to filter through a couple of …