Indie
Album Review: Eight Rounds Rapid – Love Your Work
We’re late to the party (literally, this album has been out a couple of weeks already) but we’re happy to commit their third album ‘Love Your Work’ to review because, well, it’s so damn good. It’s the sound of new British music, cutting edge style – referencing Sleafords, Fontaine’s, Cabbage and Idles even, but wrapping …
SEE: the rage of Stone’s ‘Stay Silent’, live from Liverpool
STONE: solid, unyielding, hard. It’s pretty much the perfect name for the Liverpudlian band that have picked up a dazzled DJ fan in the shape of Radio One’s Jack Saunders, who’s championed them all through the crawl-those-walls caging of the Covid lockdown. But they’re back or rather, they’re unleashed; they’re full-on and they’re ready to …
Premiere: Tanzos releases new visuals for ‘Birdy’
Austrian Indie rocker Mik Tanzos trades under his surname, and recently released a new single ‘Birdy’ – the follow up to his debut track ‘How Do You Want Me?’. We’re delighted to premiere the accompanying visuals right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Tanzos says “Birdy tells the story of a couple´s life …
Album: BOB – You Can Stop That For A Start
I recall a time in the late eighties and early nineties where one could venture out to see a band and BOB were almost always the support act! One of the hardest working bands at the time (possibly only Mega City 4 hit the road more often), BOB toured everywhere on an endless crusade to …
Track: Mint Field release new single ‘Delicadeza’ ahead of album release
Following on from their Neu! meets Spaceman 3 like psychedelic rock and krautrock cocktail ‘Contingencia, Mint Field have delivered us mere mortals another offering off their upcoming sophomore album ‘Sentimiento Mundial‘ on Felte Records due 25 September with ‘Delicadeza’.Produced by Syd Kemp and featuring Callum Brown of Ulrika Spacek on drum duties, ‘Delicadeza’ from the …
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 …
Soundtrack of our Lives: Pixy Jones of El Goodo
YOU MAY not have taken a dive into an El Goodo album; that, I’m afraid, may be a flaw entirely laid at your own door. OK, they don’t work to a Tin Pan Alley rhythm – there’s only been three albums since their eponymous debut for Super Furries’ Placid Casual imprint in 2005, the most …
SEE: Merseyside duo King Hannah debut with ‘Crème Brûlée’, sign for City Slang
SOMETIMES it’s just absolutely the right time for a band. Sometimes, that band exists as a fully formed notion; and it just needs to step out into the physical world. This is the case, I’d venture, with Liverpool duo King Hannah, who’ve announced their official arrival at the musical ball with their debut offering, the …
SEE: the cute-as guitar pop of Fever’s ‘Honesty’; rescheduled dates confirmed
HULL’S Fever usher in the end of the summer with a guitar pop choon soaring for the sky in a simple plea for “Honesty”. It’s proper sweet. Have a listen below. The song’s out today via Very Clever Records, and it’s all direct to your heartstrings, doe-eyed pop. Sometimes the simple tunes really are the …
NEWS: Floodlights to live stream a Rough Trade session tonight
MELBOURNE’S Floodlights, the next wave of great Australian indie guitar bands who’ve just released their debut album, From A View, via the joint offices of Woo Me! and Spunk Records, will be appearing in a live stream session for Rough Trade tonight, Wednesday, September 9th, at 6pm British Summer Time. If they’re a new name …