post-rock
Premiere: darkdarkhead – Falling Upwards
We’re delighted to premiere the new, second single titled Falling Upwards, to be taken from darkdarkdarkhead’s new EP Strange Weather, which drops on March 25th via Saint Marie. Already having been the subject of a retrospective via Captured Trakcs, the band have continued to make slightly psychedelic shoegaze despite the band’s singer leaving in 2009. …
Track: Adem – By Everyone, plus UK tour dates
One of the first ever articles written on Backseat Mafia was about Adem. It was, back in 2013 sometime, imploring the former Fridge man to make a new record. Sadly, he took no notice of us whatsoever, until now where to be fair, he’s probably still took no notice of us, but he has returned …
See: Wozniak release new visuals for Gospel of Infinity
As you will be well aware if you follow Backseat Mafia at all, Edinburgh’s Wozniak are one of our favourite bands around right now. Full of intensity and passion in their largely (but not totally) instrumental post-rock/shoegaze, they are managing to do something plough their own furrow rather successfully. Taken from their recent EP, Auster, …
Live: Nordic Giants. Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds 16.11.15
¥ What makes man different from others – is that he is aware of himself, he is able to reflect upon himself and analyse how his environment influences him. Millions of years of evolution has passed and the exploration of consciousness seems to have been forgotten – Are you ready to expand your consciousness ? ¥ …
Album Review: Mark McGuire – Beyond Belief
Mark McGuire’s Beyond Belief is a behemoth of an album. It’s an epic double LP, nearly 80 minutes of expansive tracks that feel like the soundtrack to some existential, futuristic film. Though it’s largely an electronic instrumental album, Beyond Belief doesn’t fall into the usual electronic music category. While most synth-filled albums of late tend to keep things dark …
Track: The Suicide Of Western Culture – ‘Amor de Madre’
In anticipation of their latest album, “Long Live Death! Down With Intelligence!”, Spanish electronic duo The Suicide Of Western Culture have released a brand new single. The track entitled ‘Amore de Madre’ encapsulates everything about the bands sound featuring brooding drones, melancholic melodies and hard hitting drums. As the opener for the bands third album ‘Amore …
News: Tortoise announce new album, plus Vinyl reissues and new video
Seems there’s a burst of activity in the camp of Chicago quintet Tortoise, with the news that the band will be releasing a new album, titled ‘The Catastrophist’ and out on January 22nd next year via their label, the brilliant Thrill Jockey. They’ve garnered the support of friends such as Maple/Dead Rider’s Todd Rittman who …
Track: Graces – Hepburn
Graces is Steve Harrison, frontman of Cumbrian alt. rock band Over and Out. Since moving to London he’s branched out into new musical pastures, specifically electro-indie project Graces. He’s taken elements of post-rock and swathed it in synths and atmospherics. The first glimpse of this comes in the shape of a single, Hepburn, out on …
New Music: London post-rock band Nonta release new single, Pulse
London post-rock indie band Nonta make the kind of atmospheric music that has you screaming Daughter and Sigur Ros (well, maybe not screaming, more fervently whispering). Ahead of their forthcoming debut EP Pulse, the band have shared the title track. It cracks through the silence, layers of intertwining guitars, glockenspiel and cello, its woody beauty …
News: Nordic Giants announce 7 Depths of conciousness tour
Quite why Nordic Giants aren’t the biggest thing in music right now is a mystery to me. Situated somewhere between Mogwai and Sigur Ros, their recent debut album A Séance Of Dark Delusions, released earlier in the year through Kscope showed that the mysterious UK (not Nordic at all) band could make soundscapes and beguiling …