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SEE: Red Rum Club – ‘Ballerino’: some proper shapes thrown, tour news
YEAH, you think you’ve got moves, Christopher Walken? The star of Deerhunter and so many other Hollywood classics, who revealed he had an absolute line on owning the dancefloor in the video for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon Of Choice“, has got some serious Liverpudlian landlord competition coming at him thanks to Red Rum Club. The Merseyside …
Track: Hinds With Chai release the collaborative track United Girls Rock’n’Roll Club
Spanish quartet Hinds recently collaborated with Tokyo-based Chai on new single UNITED GIRLS ROCK’N’ROLL CLUB. The track is as ebullient and liberating, if not more, than both of the respective bands’ albums or live shows, with the brilliantly uplifting WOAH-OH-WOAH-OH vocals and joyous handclaps. That the track’s vocals are sung in a variety of English, …
Premiere: BAIRD releases new single, ‘Sunken Place’
London based dance-pop artist BAIRD has today released his international music debut with a single and accompanying video, Sunken Place, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Growing up between Canada, Berlin and London with an Irish background gave BAIRD the opportunity to gather together cultures, influences as well as …
EP: Troye Sivan – In A Dream
Fans of Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan who have been there from the start will have seen the evolution of an artist, from the early YouTube videos to the early Eps June Haverly and TRXYE. The trilogy of videos from his debut long player Blue Neighbourhood as well as his coming out video have made him an LGBT icon. The second …
Track: Watertown – Car CDs
Four piece Watertown shared their second single ‘Car CDs’ . A summery sound, using a wide range of instruments within this track, such as, djembe, Alto and Tenor sax, Trumpet, Bass, Guitar, drums and many more which help to create the summery sound we want for this song. Bright laid back grooves, and honey sweet …
Premiere: LMNL release new single Outliar
LMNL, aka Oxford’s Simon Batten, has released a new single ‘Outliar’ taken from his upcoming debut eponymous EP, out today via Upcycled Sounds, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia. Of the song, Batten explains: “It’s not really a spoiler to say that this song speaks about social anxiety, and how …
See: Mines Falls release video for single ‘Hey Mother’
L.A. duo Mines Falls at a pair of brothers who work in film and design during the day, and make moody electro heavy pop music by night. Ahead of their self-titled debut album out on September 18th, they’ve released a new single/video, Hey Mother. On the song, singer Carson Lund says, ‘“Hey Mother” is the earliest …
TRACK: Alex Jayne – ‘Backseat’: the city from a taxi with an acoustic guitar
ALEX JAYNE, the London grown-up pop songwriter with an eye for the odd side of life, has revealed her latest track, “Backseat”. She’s following “90s Dream” , in which, surreally, she imagined attending her own break-up movie, with this sweetly sung, intelligent slice of acoustic pop, observing the city from her taxi home. She said: …
SEE: Marie Davidson & L’Oeil Nu – ‘Renegade Breakdown’: electro chill and strength
MONTREAL’S Marie Davidson, veteran of that city’s DIY scene, musical polymath, fierce declaimer; like Grace Jones, you wouldn’t mess, frankly. Have a watch of the lyric video for the latest track “Renegade Breakdown”, which she’s just dropped for Ninja Tune and see if you’d dare. It’s a pulsing, dirty slice of electro-house over which Marie …
SEE: the glamorous and glittery new video for Erasure’s ‘Nerves Of Steel’
VINCE CLARKE and Andy Bell, better known to all and sundry as electropop legends Erasure, have just released the video for their latest single, “Nerves of Steel”: watch with us, below. The none-more-glamorous video clip features more than 20 LGBTQIA+ stars, including several best known for their appearance on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Andy said: “This is …