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Premiere: Wilding releases sublime pop single ‘Swipe Right’
We are very pleased to premiere the video for the single ‘Swipe Right’ from Wilding, the work of UK-born and Australian resident Justin Wilding Stokes. ‘Swipe Right’ is pop eccentricity at its best and the creative mind of Wilding is accentuated by the lockdown-shot video involving dating apps, philosophical stick insects and a delicious pop …
TRACK: Liam Bailey – ‘Angel Dust’: digi-dancehall for a femme fatale
LIAM BAILEY is shaping up for the release of his debut album, Ekundayo, on Big Crown in November with another deep ‘n’ dirty single drop in the shape of “Angel Dust”: take a listen below. It’s a raw-edged nugget of digi-dancehall with a pleading reverbed vocal to a soured relationship with a femme fatale: “She …
TRACK: hear the excellent cosmic pop of Elvis Perkins’ ‘See Monkey’:
ELVIS PERKINS, the sculptor of fine indie songsmithery in the great American tradition, has shared another excellent slice of melody ahead of his fifth album, Creation Myths, which will be out come October 2nd on MIR/Petaluma Records. And for this, his fifth album and his first full-length venture since his 2017 soundtrack The Blackcoat’s Daughter, …
TRACK: Mountain Goats’ ‘Get Famous’: a warm groove with a lyrical arrow
JOHN DARNIELLE’S evergreen and much-loved Mountain Goats are shaping up to release their second full-lengther of the year, Getting Into Knives; and today they’ve released a highlight from the forthcoming album in the shape of “Get Famous”. Take a listen on our embed below. You’ll find organ and brass-led warmth, a real kind of Memphis soul …
ALBUM REVIEW: Osees – ‘Protean Threat’: John Dwyer trips us further into prog-tinged fuzz garage
JOHN DWYER’S Osees. I mean, they’re an absolute force of nature; a vivacious, fiery, disciplined, fun, piledriving force. If you’ve never seen them, by jiminy you need to: kinda meh at Vampire Weekend on the main stage, I wandered into their second-stage headline set at End of the Road in 2018 and stopped dead. Absolutely …
TRACK: hear Mort Garson’s ‘Ode To An African Violet’: spacey, deconstructed Moog funk for your flowers
YOU’VE never really heard Mort Garson, you say; heard the name, never quite caught up with any of his stuff; anyway, it’s rock hard to get hold of, isn’t it? Yeah, of course I’m into Stereolab, Broadcast, Plone; Belbury Poly, Add N To (X), you say. If it’s weird and Moogy and kinda space age …
TRACK: Summer Heart’s ‘Good Together’: pristine dreampop announces new label home
SUMMER HEART, the dreampop recording alias of Swede David Alexander, has announced his signing for Icons Creating Evil Art with the release of a sweet and soaring new synthpop tune, “Good Together”. Take a listen below on our SoundCloud embed. Over the past near-decade that Summer Heart have been active as a proposition, David’s remained …
TRACK: Edwin Arzu – ‘Over’: a pristine soul torchsong
IF YOU have a penchant for pristine R’n’B pop songwriting of a very fine order, here’s an upcoming name for you: NYC-born, LA-resident Edwin Arzu. Born and raised in the Bronx to a Honduran single mother, Edwin’s first steps into creativity came through poetry, which evolved into a passion for songwriting as a teen. He …
TRACK: Ana Roxanne’s ‘Suite Pour L’invisible’: haunting and lush
KRANKY. It’s a label that this unerring step with beautiful and complex ambient music, one which it’s been plying now for a quarter-century and more. The Texan imprint has just unveiled its latest signing: and once more they’ve struck the proverbial gold. Los Angeles-based Ana Roxanne comes into the fold on the back of one …
EP REVIEW: The Illness – ‘Descending’/’Phrases Redacted’: alt rock gets the tronica feels on cassette
HERE at Backseat Mafia, we’re really quite fond of The Illness. No, god, not that one – not the year-destroying one; we’re talking the Transpennine band who’ve been something of an in-house Wrecking Crew for York’s Sea Records, and who finally got their name up on their own 12”, “Descending”/”Phrases Redacted” back in July. We …