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Ideal Living Announce Debut EP; Listen To Lead Single ‘Come To Me’ – Backseat Mafia
Brighton art rockers Ideal Living have announced their debut EP titled This Big House due out the 7th March via boutique label Crafting Room Recordings. Along with the announcement, the band have shared the lead single ‘Come to Me’. A voyaging 4 minute journey through gothic waltzes and careening high-stakes art-rock, ‘Come To Me’ finds Ideal Living whole-heartedly embracing their penchant for dramatic musical storytelling. Produced by Ben Hampson (Lambrini Girls, Ditz) at Agricultural studios, the track narrates an opening chapter in the EP’s wider narrative – to be expanded further with a short film and full-length novel. Sung from the viewpoint of a nameless narrator, ‘Come to Me’ tells of…
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Ideal Living Release Double Single Roam/OFD – Backseat Mafia
Formed in Brighton in 2022 by frontman Billy Marsh, Ideal Living notably features musicians from across the city’s current wave of emergent alternative acts (Flip Top Head and SoftTop among them) in its ever-shifting orchestra. They have shared a double single release with ‘Roam’ / ‘OFD’ Inspired in equal parts by the brooding narratives of Tom Waits or Nick Cave, the brash melodrama of Ennio Morricone’s Spaghetti Western soundtracks, and a passing obsession with Classic FM, this upcoming brace of tracks – Produced by Bobby Smiles (Hutch) at Brighton’s Electric Studios – sees the band reflect on themes of loneliness and urbanisation via the harsh lens of modernity, as frontman…
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The Argentinian sound artist’s ambient hymn to a living landscape. – Backseat Mafia
LA based, Argentinian Qoa (aka. Nina Conti) is a digital sound artist and illustrator who focuses on tuning in and responding to the non-human world. That involves the composer’s serious engagement physical and imaginary, with plants and animals, streams and undergrowth, winds and weathers, and from this starting point developing a musical connection with the living planet. Their solo recording ‘Achiyaku’ from 2020 was a devotional to a river’s rhythms and ripples while 2021’s ‘Asteroide’ on Krut Records imagined land and plant forms beyond this planet. Now comes a new Qoa album ‘SAUCO’, out on LA’s reliably nourishing Leaving Records which offers up further evidence of their probing yet playful…
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Cork Emerging Alt-Rock Trio the drive. Release Dark and Atmospheric New Single ‘living is easy.’ – Backseat Mafia
Blending the dark intensity of grunge with the reverb soaked nuance of shoegaze, Irish rockers the drive capture a compelling, dark and atmospheric tone on their new single ‘living is easy.’ Produced by Keelan O’Reilly, known for his work with Post-Party, the new single opens with tribal, tom heavy drums and repeated bass lick under the emotive, yearning lead vocals. From its sparse into the track soon explodes in a sprawling and intense guitar riff, caked in distortion and cavernous reverb. As the track continues through it’s second verse, the moody intensity continues before reaching an explosive climax. A heavy, foreboding shoegaze sound that poetically captures the struggles of everyday…
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Exquisite ambient music for a living city – Hong Kong based composer Olivier Cong announces new album ‘Tropical Church’. – Backseat Mafia
A label with discernment is what you need to help you navigate the oceans of ambient electronica. Lawrence English’s Room40 provides such a service, “a beacon of sound…ringing out from the deepest south” as it’s strapline goes. So any transmission coming in from them is reassuringly one to tune into. Cue the news of the Room40’s latest signing, the Hong Kong based musician, sound artist and composer Olivier Cong, together with the announcement of his incoming album ‘Tropical Church’ (out via Room40 tributary Someone Good on July 19th). Co-founder of an independent label himself, Raven & The Sea, Cong’s 2020 debut ‘A Ghost & His Paintings’ made waves on the…
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Milky Chance and The Beaches team up on ‘Living in a Haze’ – Backseat Mafia
Milky Chance have shared a new take on their hit single ‘Living In A Haze’, featuring Canadian band, The Beaches. Like Milky Chance, The Beaches are a band of childhood friends, and bring a refreshing feminine perspective to the track, adding their own verse and proving that wishing you could be a ‘disco boy’ is a state of mind. ‘We are very happy that The Beaches decided to jump on ‘Living In A Haze’ and give it an extra musical kick. There was so much love from Canada for this song, so to have such a cool Canadian band come on the track is perfect. We are thrilled by how…
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Missiles – Living In A Nuclear Town – Backseat Mafia
Sweden’s Missiles have released a new single, ‘Living In A Nuclear Town’, from their upcoming album ‘Weaponize Tomorrow’ due out on the 10th of May via Svart Records Missiles explains the backgrounds of the track: “Living in a Nuclear Town was one of the last – if not the last – song to be finished before we started the recording process. It’s also one of the tracks that was finished first and saw few changes whilst others got a good beating. Lyrically, the song deals with the rough realities, both the ones reported and seen as well as the ongoing hidden waiting to happen”. Led by a cool bass line and some impressive…
