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PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal

YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Mueller – ‘Family Secret’: an immersive drone palimpsest

Family Secret is a journey of deep interiority: it's implicit that it be served fresh, after dark, suitably lit with no distractions. Clever, eerie and beautiful, it's an album that will continue to reward you

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SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Angeles’: mellow LA country-psych with the darkest heart

BY DAY Cory Hanson is singer-guitarist with LA psych quintet Wand, but he also pursues a rather seductive solo vision: a very LA blur of blissful, rootsy psych, part-Laurel Canyon,…

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SEE: Visionist preludes his March album for Mute with ‘The Fold’

LONDON’S musical scryer Visionist has announced details of a new album, A Call To Arms which, after his 2017 LP Value for Big Dada, will be his debut for Mute. The…

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SEE: The video for Ben Harper’s ‘Black Beauty’: a proud, gospel soul rush

“IT WAS an honor to have been asked to write a song for this culturally vital documentary,” says singer-songwriting legend Ben Harper of “Black Beauty”, the song he’s dropped the…

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SEE: John Paul Keith – ‘How Can You Walk Away’: raunchy soul blues lament gets visuals

WE’VE taken a look at this before here at Backseat Mafia, but at that point it was visually denuded as you might say: and given it’s a bit of a…

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SEE: Danny Elfman – ‘Sorry’: high, scouring prog-industrial from soundtrack giant

IT WAS quite a thing when ANTI- secured the signature of globe-straddling modern soundtrack composer extraordinaire Danny Elfman last year; yep, the Sunset Boulevard-based label which brings us Andy Shauf,…

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SEE: Cassandra Jenkins – ‘Michelangelo’: subtle, haunting Americana

NEW YORK folkie Cassandra Jenkins has stepped away from the world of self-releasing on her own Cassandra Complex imprint to ink her signature for Brooklyn’s Ba Da Bing, which imprint…

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SEE: The Telescopes – ‘Strange Waves’: languid, dirty and all the good things

STEPHEN LAWRIE’S The Telescopes are old hands at this beautifully dirty, scuzzy psych-rock game – but don’t think for a second that means they’ve lost an ounce of potency, as…

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SEE: John Smith – ‘Friends’: honey-voiced folk salutes those dear to us

A SIMPLE name, perhaps, but far from simple tunesmithery: John Smith is coming into 2021 with positivity and a grab-bag of songs to beguile you. Essex born but raised on…

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