Memphis Industries
Say Psych: Track: Menace Beach – Black Rainbow Sound
Leeds-based Menace Beach return with news of their third album Black Rainbow Sound, which is set for release on 31st August on Memphis Industries. The new album is the band’s first new material since early 2017’s Lemon Memory, and after a self-imposed break from tour duties, the album exhibits a profound shift in their sound, whilst still mainlining the blasts of …
See: Warm Digits reveal new video for Better Friction, plus live dates
Warm Digits, aka Newcastle electronica duo Andrew Hodson and Steve Jefferis, have revealed the new video for Better Friction, taken from their recently released third album Wireless world, which dropped through the ever brilliant Memphis Industries. Of the track, Jefferis says “Better Friction” argues that no form of power or technology is without its own mythology. …
Track: The Go! Team – The Only Thing New is U Finding Out About it, plus summer tour dates
The Go! Team have shared “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It”, a brand new single following on from their acclaimed new album SEMICIRCLE (out now on Memphis Industries). Band leader Ian Parton explains the influences behind the upbeat and mostly instrumental track: “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About …
Track: Slug – Lakadaisical Love
SLUG will return with a brand new album HiggledyPiggledy on 13th April 2018 on Memphis Industries. SLUG is the the nom de plume of North East native Ian Black and, whereas acclaimed debut LP RIPE was made in collaboration with Peter Brewis and David Brewis of Field Music, HiggledyPiggledy was composed, produced and played entirely …
Album Review: Field Music – Open Here
With the release of their sixth album proper, Open Here, Field Music have firmly established themselves as mainstays of the dermis of UK music, IE where all the interesting stuff happens! For those already familiar with their output, then you’ll know what to expect – For newcomers, then this, an album as strong and worthy …
Track: Slug – No Heavy Petting, plus new album / tour date news
Slug, aka North East native Ian Black has returned with a new album, HiggledyPiggledy, out on April 13th via Memphis Industries. From it he’s released lead single No Heavy Petting, which pokes fun at the sexualisation of music on television, at least from his own standpoint, while the title comes from the Swimming Pool signs …
Track: Field Music – Time in Joy
Time in Joy is the lead and second track to be released from Field Music’s 6th album proper, Open Here, which is released on February 2nd on Memphis Industries. Despite by their own admission, with this new album, to be pursuing a less stripped down sound than on its predecessor ‘Commontime’, it’s business as usual …
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 …
See: The Go! Team release new video for Semicircle Song
Ahwad of Brighton indie funk outfit The Go! Teams new album Semicircle, out 19th January via Memphis Industries, they’ve released a new video for the albums first single ‘Semicircle Song’. For the album, the band apparently envisaged envisioned a marching band going rogue and chucking away their sheet music to blast out Northern soul stompers, …
Track: NZCA Lines – Two Hearts
NZCA Lines have released another track “Two Hearts” from their forthcoming Infinte Summer album. While the previous track Persephone’s Dream was an unsettling seven minute slow-burn (until the marimba kicked in anyway), Two Hearts thumps in on a solid bass beat before rising towards an euphoric crescendo, all in three minutes. According to the band’s Michael …