Indie
Track: Silverbacks – Muted Gold
Quirky and bubbly, angular and slightly off-kilter: Dublin’s Silverbacks have released a fantastic new single ‘Muted Gold’ that is eccentric, bold and highly enjoyable. Think of Talking Heads (maybe more Tom Tom Club), Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend with the slightly unhinged singing and idiosyncratic guitar picking style that I always associate with the late …
Premiere: Unruly Girls – Black Love (Video)
Backseat Mafia is very honoured to premiere today the phenomenal new video by Italian band Unruly Girls. ‘Black Love’ is off their recently released album ‘Epidemic’ – an album I rated a 9.1 out of 10 – and is a typically unhinged, anarchic and thundering production, yet is antithetically tinged with a sense of poignancy. …
See: Cage the Elephant release video for Black Madonna
Taken from their recent album Social Cues, Cage the Elephant have released a new video for ‘Black Madonna’. The video has been directed by lead singer Matt Shultz and edited over Zoom (isn’t everything done over Zoom these days) and is made up of new, live and behind the scenes footage from the band. The …
Track: PLÅSTIC- Bled
After being on the scene for just over a year, picking up attention as they go around London, PLÅSTIC have just released their new single Bled. Bled starts out with this energetic, early The Cure type thing going on, but it soon lets the shackles off, shakes out its hair and instead rumbles uncontrollably down …
Premiere: Yaglander to release new video for The Straight and Narrow
We’re delighted to premiere the new video this morning from North London’s Yaglander, for his single The Straight and Narrow. It’s taken from his EP of the same name which is out on 22nd May. The straight and narrow mixes up left-field indie/synth pop, akin to the likes of Cate Le Bon, but throws in …
Meet: Ladybug Transistor’s Gary Olson on his new solo album and more
Ladybug Transistor frontman Gary Olson is gearing up for the release of his self-titled solo record, out via Tapete Records on 29th May. It’s a strange (maybe strange is the wrong word – perhaps uplifting? inspiring?) tale of recording between Brooklyn and the Norwegian countryside over the course of several years, with two brothers who …
See: The Beths release new video for “I’m Not Getting Excited”
The Beths’ video for “I’m Not Getting Excited”, the subsequent release to lead single “Dying to Believe”, foreshadows the release of their next album “Jump Rope Gazers”. The band have enjoyed the fruits of their infectious melody-seated songwriting, supporting “Death Cab For Cutie” in the past year. Fellow indie-poppers “Sports Team” directed the stop-animation video, …
Track: The Berries – Ancient Steel
“I’ve always been attracted to pop sensibilities and I was interested in making music that leaned more towards that instead of volume and distortion,” said Matt Berry, of The Berries about their last album. The former Big Bite and Happy Diving member and his band have released a new stand along single ‘Ancient Steel’, via …
See: The Stroppies reveal new video for ‘Look Alive’
Melbourne tunesmiths ‘The Stroppies’ offer up a third taster ‘Look Alive’, the title track from their forthcoming mini album on the ever energetic Tough Love Records. ‘Look Alive’ has all the ingredients that make The Stroppies such an intriguing prospect – the loving jangle, the rhythmic chug, the slacker melody plus in-built surprise keyboard fills …
Track: Kidsmoke – The Bluest You
With a spectral guitar intro and the yearning vocals, Kidsmoke’s new single ‘The Bluest You’ is a dreamy smooth pleasure of the highest degree. There is a celestial shimmer to the song – it shines and sparkles while simultaneously creating an air of pastoral melancholia. An air that clearly reflects its lyrical themes, of which …