synthwave
News: Synthwave Duo The Midnight Bring Syndicate to Australia in January 2026
The Midnight will return to Australia in early 2026 for a three-date headline tour celebrating their fifth studio album Syndicate — a cinematic, introspective evolution of their synthwave sound.
Track: Introducing BB Sabina’s Stunning New Release ‘Multitude’ + Single Launch!
BB Sabina’s latest single, ‘Multitude,’ is a track that lingers. It’s nearly seven minutes long, and honestly, it might not be long enough. Moving through trip-hop’s shadowy corners, it picks up the tension of post-rock and absolutely glows with hypnotism. Beth Uhe’s voice drifts through like a lone ballerina, upstaged by nothing else. It’s layered …
EXCLUSIVE: DAVID SHAW AND THE BEAT DROPS AN EXCLUSIVE TAKEOVER MIX FOR BACKSEAT MAFIA IN CONNECTION WITH HIS REMIX FOR THE ‘Twist In My Sobriety’ EP FROM THEODORA
For the release of the ‘Twist In My Sobriety’ EP (out now on the Theodora Project label) we are delighted to present a Takeover Mix from David Shaw And The Beat whose remix features on the release with ‘The Beat’ Check it out on the Backseatmafia Mixcloud & Soundcloud accounts below: Backseat Mafia · David Shaw Blackseat Mix “Giddy …
Live Review: Combichrist / Priest / Mimi Barks – The Grand Social, Dublin 14,08,2022
Aggrotech masters Combichrist brought their Europe Not My Enemy tour to Dublin and with them were synthwave maestro’s Priest and doom trap mistress Mimi Barks Opening the night was Mimi Barks and hailing from Berlin now based in London since 2019 and a two piece, backed by a drummer, between the pair of them they …
Track: Overland Inn unveil the title track to their forthcoming album ‘Proxima’: a delicious bubbling slice of electronic heaven
Last month we premiered the fantastic new single ‘Les Mauvais Jours’ from Czech-based French duo Overland Inn following their signing to the brilliant Brisbane label False Peak Records. Overland Inn have now released the title track to their forthcoming album ‘Proxima’ and it’s another exquisite slice of electronica pie, augmented by the lush vocals sung in …
Premiere: Zenith Volt release the new video for ‘Galaxy’
Hawaii-based Synthwave artist Zenith Volt latest album Timekeeper came out last week (March 19th) via Aztec Records, and swiftly following on from it, he’s released a new video for the track Galaxy, which we’re delighted to premiere right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the track, Zenith Volt told us “To me, the song “GALAXY” …
News: The Black Queen celebrate the fifth anniversary of their debut album with limited edition vinyl reissues and deluxe digital edition
American supergroup The Black Queen are set to mark the five year anniversary of their cult classic debut album, ‘Fever Daydream’, with the release of 2 vinyl reissues and a deluxe digital edition. “In 20 years of making albums, there are a few that stand out as being really special. They felt special when they were …
ALBUM REVIEW: Sam Prekop – ‘Comma’: further into wordless ‘tronica melodies
EMERGING from that Chicago scene so ripe with cross-fertilisation and ideas around the turn of the century, Sam Prekop was part of that fountain of creativity that brought us Tortoise, Bobby Conn, Jim O’Rourke’s shift into pop melodicism, Freakwater; many more. Sam himself cut his recording teeth alongside Archer Prewitt and John McEntire in The …
TRACK: Metronomy – ‘The Light’ (Kero Kero Bonito remix): a modern synthpop marriage
IT MAKES absolute sense, when you think about it: take the art-synth-pop of Metronomy, take also further intelligent pop experimenta via the futurist J-pop and shoegaze-informed stylings of Kero Kero Bonito, and put ‘em together. Why had no one thunk of that before? Metronomy haved shared a new remix of “The Light”, the cool, detached, …
SEE: Bearcraft – ‘Outside In The Morning Snow’: Modish synthwave burrowing into your dreams
A two-finger synth melody is picked out, melodically precise, in that way Depeche Mode wrought so many classic hooks from as they shifted through Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward, striding out of the pure pop of the Vince Clarke era and heading for the proto-goth sampling of Black Celebration. It’s a pop melody …