Indie
Track: New Order – Sub-Culture (live) plus Manchester live concert album news
Indie legends New Order have announced that their gig from July 2017 that took place in Manchester’s Old Granada Studios (where Joy Division had made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes programme) is going to be released on triple vinyl, double cd and download/stream on July 12th, titled ‘∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + …
Album Review – Froth ‘Duress’
Froth is a band from Los Angeles consisting of Joo-Joo Ashworth (guitar), Jeremy Katz (bass) and Cameron Allen (drums). Together, they’ve explored a range of sounds shoegaze, psychedelia and post-punk over several albums, a steady regimen of East LA house shows, downtown DIY gigs and support tours with alternative rock icons Interpol and Ride soon. After a …
Not Forgotten: Cud – When in Rome, Kill Me
It is one of the less talked about pages of late 80s indie lore that the budget was so tight when Cud recorded their debut album, that when they over spent the band elected not to master it and release it in its natural state. This meant that the original release of When in Rome, …
Track: Neutrals – Hate the Summer of Love
Bay Area jangle punks (I mean its self described but I liked them before I even heard them given that) Neutrals have released a new single, ‘Hate the Summer of Love’ ahead of their debut album Kebab Disco, out on June 6th via Emotional Response Records. Part Television Personalities, part postcard records, it’s this 100% …
Album Review: Pip Blom – Boat
Although sounding like a singular, Pip Blom are actually a band from Amsterdam, although slightly confusingly, they’re led by the aforementioned Pip Blom (singular again). Through an EP, Paycheck, and slowly becoming 6Music darlings, they’ve created interest and attention that has led to this debut album, Boat, out today (31st May) on ever brilliant Heavenly …
Track: Crushed Beaks – Honesty Box
London-based Crushed Beaks return in a confident mood with a new album ‘The Other Room’ and new single up their sleeve. A taster of whats to come in the album is ‘Honesty Box’, a blast of pure energy powered by a driving motorik beat and drenched in layers of warped distortion. The Other Room was …
Track: Broken Chanter – Wholesale
Broken Chanter has released debut single ‘Wholesale’. Broken Chanter is the new solo project from David MacGregor principal songwriter of Scottish Alt-Pop darlings Kid Canaveral. Last year MacGregor isolated himself in spots around the Highlands and Islands, recording skeletal demos before decamping with long-term collaborator and engineer and producer Gal (Chvrches, Man of Moon, Frightened …
Premiere: The Purple Lights reveal new video for Lake
We’re delighted here on Backseat Mafia to premiere the new track/video from London/Suffolk duo The Purple Lights for their forthcoming single Lake, out on July 12th via 3-6-9 ‘Essentially Lake is a break-up song, for anyone who has loved and lost, a coming to terms with reality and moving forward in life’ say the band, and …
Album Review: Sacred Paws – Run Around the Sun
Out on May 31st is Run Around the Sun, the second long playing installment from duo Sacred Paws, aka Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers. There were high hopes in this household following 2016’s Strike a Match, and the Paws (as absolutely no-one calls them) have come up with the effervescent goods. Yeah there’s something of the Honeyblood …
Track: Ice Baths – Clusters
Ahead of tomorrow’s (31st May) release of their Decadent Sprinter EP via Blank Editions, London post-punks Ice Baths have revealed the last single to be taken from it, Clusters, following on from previous singles, Auster and Simulation. It’s a taught slice of post-punk/art rock, with these shards guitar shattering over the accompaniment in the verse …