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Dom Malin Shares Delicate New Single ‘Tapping Out’ – Backseat Mafia
For Midlands-based singer-songwriter Dom Malin shares the delicate and heartfelt new single ‘Tapping Out’. Building a warming soundscape of organic textures and warming melancholic vocals, the track builds a compelling folk-pop soundscape packing emotive delivery and beautiful guitar work under its elegant vocal melodies and silky production. Rich with warming piano, strummed acoustics and elegant lead guitar, the track dances with a buoyant, easy going aura under the heartfelt lead vocals. Comparable to early Ben Howard, ‘Tapping Out’ runs an emotional journey through themes of perseverance and the relentless pursuit of meaning despite life’s struggles. Over the years, Malin has poured his heart and soul into music, extensively touring across…
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PJ Orr release the delicate sounds of ‘Footsteps’ ahead of new album and launch date. – Backseat Mafia
A gentle, dappling, rich and luscious flow of guitars, sometimes rearing up into twanging solos, heralds ‘Footsteps’, the new single from P.J. Orr. It’s an aching, yearning track that draws in elements of Crowded House and Tom Petty to sparkle and glow with a delicious melancholia. The theme centre on the elusive qualities of romance – according to Phil Orr, it’s about: The infinite possibilities that can lead two humans to connect through the most unlikely circumstances. To quote Dr Peter Venkman – ‘Call it fate – call it karma’. It’s a lovely track that bubbles and flows with an aquatic vitality: Wake Me When I’m Thirsty by PJ Orr…
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Jonsjooel Releases Delicate New Single ‘Goodbye Ah’ – Backseat Mafia
Berlin-based Finnish artist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Jonsjooel has unveiled the delicate, emotive and cinematicsingle, ‘Goodbye Ah’, from his forthcoming EP, Voices Of A First Day. Releasedvia Kieku Records, the new single showcases a Sujan Stevens-esque musical approach, built around emotion driven songwriting and some wonderfully constructed instrumentation. Jonsjooel’s background as a jazz musician enriches his expansive and experimental soundscapes giving his music a depth in it’s rich, restrained yet complex musicality. Through warming piano, melancholic, fragile falsetto and layers of atmospherics, warming bass and understated drums, ‘Goodbye Ah’ is a vibrant and moving example of this. As comparable to Radiohead as it is RHODES, the single is at once challenging…
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Arliston Share Delicate, Spellbinding New Single ‘Monks of Lindisfarne’ – Backseat Mafia
South London duo Arliston (Jack Ratcliffe and George Hasbury) share the delicate and emotive new single ‘Monks of Lindisfarne’, the first track from their upcoming album, Disappointment Machine. Draped in analog-sounding production and warm, muted guitar and drum tones ‘Monks of Lindisfarne’ showcases Arliston’s poignant storytelling capabilities. Comparable to The National and Big Red Machine, the tracks pensive tone and vocal delivery unravels the heartache and bitter taste of romantic rejection. Through a gradually build, the soundscape expands as layers of swelling piano, bass and subtle electronics enter before a processed vocoder vocal leads the latter part of the track, highlighting the experimental edge in the bands sound. Reflecting on…
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Joey Sachi returns with another ethereal delight in the delicate ‘Reverie’. – Backseat Mafia
We were incredibly honoured to premiere the stunning debut single ‘Fractured’ of Tokyo-based Sydney artist Joey Sachi last year, and she has followed this up with a new single, ‘Reverie,’ which proves without doubt that this is an artist that has a brilliant career ahead. ‘Reverie’ floats in the skies: celestial and majestic instrumentation dapples and flows like a stream in the bright sunshine, with an electronic thrum threading underneath. Sachi’s vocals are like strands of gossamer silk drifting in a slipstream in the sky. The track is quiet and reflective, introducing a gentle warmth and sophistication that shows incremental creative growth and development from her debut. Sachi has teaming up…
