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TRACK: Jimi Tenor – ‘Sugar and Spice’: you’re shimmying in its pocket
PHILOPHON, the Berlin label with a deep and abiding mission to bring forth all things with a deep groove, has today released a “haptic” 7” by Finnish multi-dimensional artist Jimi Tenor. The A, “Sugar and Spice” is big, fly, funk: brass stabs, polyrhythms from Ghanaian drummer Ekow Alabi, jazz horn clusters. It’s heading across 110th …
TRACK: PELA’s ‘Reverie’ – a summer in four minutes
HOT on the heels of the languid sunbliss of “South Of”, celebrating their side of the Thames, PELA today release the honeyed summer melodies of “Reverie”. It’s a more uptempo offering than their last; it glimmers with electronics and a soft soul shuffle, all hand claps and the suggestion of beats, over which Hannah Coombes’ …
Track: Doves – Prisoners plus album news
Last month Backseat Mafia welcomed back the ever brilliant Doves upon the release of their first material in eleven years – the single ‘Carousels’. And to add fuel to the fire, Doves are back with another fantastic new single, ‘Prisoners’, as well as exciting news of a new album, entitled ‘The Universal Want’, due out …
SEE: Hurts’ ‘Suffer’ in monochrome; September album
MANCHESTER’S intelligent electronic pop duo Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson, better known as Hurts, have released the sultry, monochrome brooder “Suffer” ahead of a fifth album, to be released on September 4th. “Suffer” benefits from a stunning black and white film clip, which you can watch below. The track is on-the-money polished and sultry, occupying …
SEE: Crack Cloud up the six-stringed fury on ‘Tunnel Vision’
CRACK CLOUD come rushing forth once more from waay left of centre with new single “Tunnel Vision”, a barrelling, angular, skeletal chant to call you to arms. The Vancouver collective’s latest tune trails their debut album proper, Pain Olympics, which comes out next Friday, July 17th. “Tunnel Vision” is everything that’s great about these Canadians. …
TRACKS: The Shacks – ‘Smile Now, Cry Later’/Brainstory – ‘Runaway’: crate-diggin’ deliciousness
BROOKLYN-based crate-diggers’ delight Big Crown Records has been keeping searchers of the groove content since 2016. A couple of years back, it compiled and curated the music of Sunny & The Sunliners, a chicano soul act outta San Antonio, TX, who began charming the world with their ‘brown-eyed soul’ in 1964 under the aegis of …
TRACK: Bill Callahan reveals second from ‘Gold Record’
AS GOOD as his word, “just like the responsible, trustworthy father you wish you always had” (it says here), Drag City’s premiere gravelly voided heartbreaker Bill Callahan has released the second Monday song from his forthcoming September album, Gold Record. “Another Song” is a wistful call for the real heartwork of love. “Why dontcha come …
TRACK: jazz legend Charles Tolliver returns with ‘Blue Soul’
NOO YOIK jazz trumpet legend Charles Tolliver is poised to release his first studio material in more than decade at the end of this month. The Gearbox imprint will be releasing Connect, on July 31st – the first time we will have heard Charles since his ensemble appearance on Keyon Harrold’s Introducing … in 2009. …
Premiere: Jo Meares – The Dirty Game of Art
Here at Backseat Mafia we are very proud to premiere the brilliant new track ‘The Dirty Art of Game’ from Sydney artist Jo Meares. This is a stunning and mesmerising song – haunting, poetic and celestial in its tone. Foremost is the rumbling hypnotic vocals that weave an enticing tale of temptation and sin in …
TRACK: Nick Faber – ‘Sensational’: funky blues hip grind
SERENDIPITY can be a fine thing in music and the arts in general. The fineness of chance occurrence that opens up a new path, or collaboration. Such was the case for hip-grindin’ blues rocker Nick Faber, who’s latest raw-ass bourbon soaked groove, “Sensational”, which comes from his Lost Highway Tapes project, stems from a chance …