pop
News: Goldfrapp announce Supernature reissue as tour sells out
There’s something always ok in the world when Goldfrapp are in it, and so the news that Mute / BMG have announced the long-awaited vinyl reissue of Goldfrapp’s third album, Supernature – out on 15 May 2020 is very welcome indeed. The additional news that the new edition of the album will be available on …
TRACK: RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – DAMSEL IN DISTRESS
Rufus Wainwright has announced his brand new solo album ‘Unfollow The Rules’. The record will be Wainwright’s first pop album since 2012’s ‘Out of the Game’, and it’s set to be released on April 24 via BMG. First single off the album “Damsel In Distress” is an ode to the wonderful Joni Mitchell, who Wainwright was …
See: Søren Lorensen release new video for Swallow
What happens when a musician like Matt Hales, he of Aqualung, who in their (well, his) past has created some of the most devastating beautiful and poignant pop music, both in his ht and for others including Lianne La Havas amongst others, meets Davide Rossi, who’s worked with everyone from Goldfrapp to Karl Heinz Stockhausen? …
Album Review: James Leonard Hewitson – Only The Noise Will Save Me
There’s a golden thread that runs through indie music stretching from at least as early as The Kinks and winding through to the Sex Pistols, Ian Dury, The Undertones, Wreckless Eric through to The Libertines, Pulp, Supergrass and more recently The Arctic Monkeys. There’s many I’ve left out in that list but I’m sure you …
Album Review: Grimes – Miss Anthropocene
On Friday 21st February, Grimes released her highly anticipated 5th album and 3rd on 4AD Records MISS ANTHROPOCENE The album title stems from the words Misanthrope, “a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society” and Anthropocene, “the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and …
Track: Hayley Mary – Like A Woman Should
Hayley Mary has just released a new single and video for her song ‘Like a Woman Should’ in anticipation of her forthcoming EP, ‘The Piss, The Perfume’ due out on 17 January 2020 through I Oh YOU Records. Mary – real name Hayley Frances McGlone – has form: she was in Australian band The Jezabels …
Premiere: Elder – wabi sabi
Backseat Mafia couldn’t be more pleased to premiere the extraordinary single ‘wabi sabi’ from Brisbane’s Elder: a song that is so innovative and exciting and quite mesmerising. It heralds the beginning of another stunning year from the stable of 4000 Records. With crystal sharp splashes of guitars, drums and bass, the song is alike a …
Classic Compilation: Clifford T Ward – Gaye and Other Stories
The aging process is a strange thing and effects us all in different ways. Some of us barely notice it, there are those that do all they can to hold back the ravages of time, and there are those that accept it with a wry smile and open arms. There was a time when the …
Not Forgotten: The Beautiful South – Welcome to the Beautiful South
There are some songs from your childhood that you clearly remember hearing on the radio for the first time. It was summer 1989, and it was a period of change in my life which my ten year old self was feeling pretty optimistic about. My family were about to move house, I was about to …
Classic Album: The Beatles – Abbey Road
Chronologically the final album that The Beatles recorded together, the general public’s appreciation for Abbey Road seems to increase each year, despite it being very much an album of two halves. Side one of Abbey Road is patchy and is unique in the fact that George Harrison’s contributions make for the two strongest tracks here, finally allowing the quiet one …