tapete Archives - Backseat Mafia

Premiere: Downpilot releases new video for the rather beautiful ‘Black Eye’

Ahead of the release of his new album The Forecast, out on March 17th via the ever brilliant Tapete label, Downpilot – ostensibly the project of singer-songwriter, musician and recording…

View Post

View Post

Album review: The Jazz Butcher – ‘The Highest In The Land’: one final pop postcard from Northampton’s foremost gent

THE JAZZ BUTCHER is one of those artists who make indiepop kids of a certain generation go misty eyed, and with good reason; Pat Fish, the man behind the jazz…

View Post

View Post

Album review: David Christian & The Pinecone Orchestra – ‘For Those We Met On The Way’: Comet Gain man sends a folk-rock postcard, looking back with sadness but without anger

THIS record begins not in the virus, lockdown, careers suddenly and virally iced, like the back story of so many records of recent times. Which in itself, may be a…

View Post

View Post

Track: Last Days of April – ‘Alone’: a readymade and prescient fuzzpop anthem

STOCKHOLM’S lovely Last Days of April, with singer and guitarist Karl Larsson the ever-present guiding light, are firing into their quarter-century anniversary year with a tenth album of high-octane guitar…

View Post

View Post

Track: 1000 Robota – ‘ENDE’: German post-hardcore trio reconvene after a decade away

1000 ROBOTA, the trio of Sebastian Muxfeldt, Jonas Hinnerkort and Anton Spielmann, got together while they were still at school in northern Germany and released their debut album of stern…

View Post

View Post

ALBUM REVIEW: Louis Philippe & The Night Mail – ‘Thunderclouds’: the blessed return of a baroque pop genius

FOOTBALL writer, baroque pop legend, in-house producer, literary collaborator: truly Philippe Auclair – known worldwide to an adoring fanbase as Louis Philippe (for it is, indeed, him) is the sort…

View Post

View Post

SEE: Louis Philippe & The Night Mail – ‘Fall In A Daydream’: él baroque-pop maître returns

ÉL RECORDS recording genius and in-house producer who seemed to find his way onto most of that label’s releases; football correspondent for the English game for France Football, these 21…

View Post

View Post

Track / Video

Track: The Monochrome Set – Stage Fright

From being at the forefront of the post-punk movement at the end of the 1970’s, The Monochrome Set are still making pulses racing and Stage Fright is out now from…

View Post