New wave
Premiere: Versari release chilling, mysterious and enigmatic video for the epic track ‘Brûle’
Versari put on display their cool and arctic nature with the brilliant new video for the track ‘Brûle’, one which we are proud to premiere here on Backseat Mafia today. A clever remix of ‘Brûle’ was recently released in an EP of the same name, premiered by Backseat Mafia recently, and the original track comes …
News: Skids covers album – ‘Songs From a Haunted Ballroom’
Scottish Punk icons, Skids have recorded their first ever covers album. It’s a tribute to the Kinema Ballroom in Dunfermline, which served as both club and venue in their formative years. The choice of tracks is based on the seminal tracks played there and the legendary concerts that took place, often with Skids in the …
News: Live Skull Announce new album ‘Dangerous Visions’ – A collection of new and old recordings, including unreleased tracks from their 1989 Peel Session
NYC’s Live Skull have announced a new album, ‘Dangerous Visions’, to be released via Bronson Recordings on December 11th. Emerging in the early 80s at the end of New York’s legendary No Wave scene alongside Manhattan comrades Sonic Youth and Swans, Live Skull reshaped the aggression of burned-out post-punk into heavy, guitar-driven rock. This new release showcases their evolution, with Side 1 featuring …
TRACK: Keep Dancing Inc – ‘No Milkshakes In Hell’: tough-edged new wave synth-sweep
KEEP DANCING INC are breaking out of the French alternative scene armed with a line in synthy post-punk fire. They’re barely in their twenties but the now-trio – we’ll come back to that later – of Louis, Joseph and Gabrielle, already have power, poise and mastery. They’ve been around for a little while: they released a …
Track: Elvis Costello – ‘Phonographic Memory’
After announcing his new album ‘Hey Clockface’ and new single ‘We are All Cowards Now’ via Concord Records. We get the surprise delivery of Elvis Costello’s new track ‘Phonographic Memory’, described as “the exclusive B-Side of the recently released, “We Are All Cowards Now”. “Phonographic Memory” imagines a post-war ceremony involving an archive recording of …
SEE: Winter Gardens’ ‘Zigzanny’ is a Bladerunner post-punk fuzzbomb
WINTER GARDENS, the Sussex quartet beloved of a big guitar and unafraid of a grandiose statement, even this early in their career – they covered the Cocteaus’ Pearly Dewdrops-Drops on their first, hard-to-find, 7″ – have dropped a lyric video for a second track from their forthcoming Tapestry EP, which is out next month; you …
News: Elvis Costello reveals new album ‘Hey Clockface’ plus releases new single.
The legendary Elvis Costello has confirmed his welcome return to the music scene with the announcement of a new album ‘Hey Clockface’ on 30 October 2020 as he releases a new single ‘We are All Cowards Now’. Of the album itself, Costello says: I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing …
SEE: Ganser’s ‘Emergency Equipment & Exits’ explores just walking away
ILLINOIS quartet Ganser have just released their second single of 2020, “Emergency Equipment & Exits”, an exploration of that universal human experience, the sudden, instinctual urge to just up and leave; and what would happen if you gave into that urge? The video to the song, beautifully self-directed by the band, finds the quartet in …
Track: Cut Copy – Cold Water
Melbourne synth pop quartet, Cut Copy share their new single, ‘Cold Water’. Taken from the four-piece’s sixth studio album – ‘Freeze, Melt’, dropping on 21st August via The Orchard. Dan Whitford on the track: “After extensive touring on our last album, ‘Cold Water’ was one of the first new songs to appear. I’d moved to Copenhagen and had been listening to …
See: Metronomy Share New Video For ‘The Light’
Metronomy today share their brand new video for ‘The Light’, which appears on their 2019 6th studio album – Metronomy Forever, released via Because Music. The video was directed by Mount, with animation by visual artist Gabriel Rolim, who was a collaborator on Metronomy’s lockdown series ‘Metronomy TV’. Bass runs and snazzy drumming starts off …