Indie
Track: Typhoon – Darker, plus UK tour dates
Taken from Portland indie rockers Typhoon’s new album Offerings, out on January 12th via Roll Call Records, Darker is a poetic, almost desperate cry for help. Over the top of this murky slice of indie rock, singer Kyle Morton almost pleads with the listener for some kind of understanding and if he’s drowning in this …
See: Dream Wife release new animated video for Hey Heartbreaker
Much is expected (and rightly so) from Dream Wife’s debut self-titled album, which drops later on this month (January 26th) through Lucky Number. The band have just released a new single ‘Hey Heartbreaker’, a stomper of an indie rock track, which grabs hold of the spirit of the Go-Go’s, dresses it up in Riot Grrl …
Track: Go! Team – All The Way Live
We here at backseat mafia are at the point where we actually cannot wait for SEMICIRCLE, the new album from Go! Team that drops on January 18th via Memphis Industries. More so now they’ve followed the frankly fantastic Semicircle Song and Mayday tracks already released from the record with an equally brilliant effort, All the …
Not Forgotten: The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
The Replacements, scruffy quartet that they were, may very well be the definitive American rock and roll band. From the garages of the suburbs of Minneapolis, possessing a youthful energy rather than any technical proficiency, and a collective ambition which seemingly stretched no further than avoiding the dead-end jobs that the majority of their classmates …
Album Review: Typhoon – Offerings
There are times an act naturally moves away from the sound that had originally beguiled their fanbase. Sometimes it’s all part of following the muse, sometimes it’s just down to line up changes, and sometimes it’s simply down to the fact that the sound that had made them successful is no longer doing so well …
Album Review: The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir
How the hell do you even review an album like 50 Song Memoir? At 5 CDs, it’s a huge undertaking just to listen to the whole thing. Or at least it seems that way until you realise that the whole thing could have sat snugly on two CDs, then it just seems like it’s a …
Classic Compilation: XTC – Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992
It is the mid-90s, you are the Virgin record label, you have been in dispute with one of your best acts for years and there seems to be no end in the deadlock. The act in question has never sold that many albums, but they have a small and incredibly loyal fanbase, and contemporary pop …
Meet: Ryan Keen interview
Ryan Keen is quite the jet setter. For a singer-songwriter and guitar supremo who has chummed about with the likes of Ed Sheeran, supported X Factor diva Leona Lewis and toured the world in the last few years, bringing his polished, anthemic but intimate brand of music to the world, he calls Totnes in Devon …
Classic Compilation: The Wonder Stuff – If the Beatles Had Read Hunter… The Singles
It can’t have been easy to have been a former member of The Wonder Stuff in the mid to late 90s, witnessing much watered down variations of their patented guitar-pop sound take an iron-grip on the album and singles charts. If only they could have hung for twelve more months, one more album, one interview …
Classic Compilation: Violent Femmes – Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes, for all their lengthy career, are primarily known for their self titled debut, a consistently selling, yet never charting, collection of hymns to teenage male angst. With its unique sonic landscape, universal themes for awkward teenage boys the world over, and high tune count, it is a hell of an album, and continues …