Album Review: Editors – Violence
‘Violence’, the newly released album from Editors, is both an incredible progression for the band while still maintaining the elements that caught everyone’s attention so many years ago when their epic debut album ‘The Back Room’ was released in 2005. Along with with bands like Interpol and White Lies, Editors have always been painted with …
News: Travis announces tour and performances of The Man Who live
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly twenty years since the release of the album ‘The Man Who’ by Travis. Released in the midst of the Brit Pop phenomena and perhaps somewhat overshadowed by the Oasis/Blur dichotomy, the showy brilliance of Pulp and the emerging audience-pleasing rise of Coldplay, it cannot be doubted that ‘The …
Track: La Bête Blooms – Take Arms
Hull’s inimitable La Bête Blooms are back with a blistering new single and video ‘Take Arms’. This is a rousing punky shouty call for action in the muscular power pop/punk style of that exemplifies the band – fuzzy. slightly anarchic and full of wry humour: Blasting aside stereotypes, commiserating with the general state of the …
Track: Gena Rose Bruce – The Way You Make Love
Backseat Mafia first discovered Gena Rose Bruce way back in 2014 and were impressed then by her songwriting prowess and superb vocals. From the sounds of her new release, ‘The Way You Make Love’, she is just getting better and better. This is a low-fi, scuzzy pop masterpiece that evokes Hope Sandoval’s sensual, evocative vocals …
See: Candace – Mendocino
One of our favourite dream pop outfits, Candace have just released a video for the song ‘Menocino’ off their brilliant album ‘New Ruins’ which Backseat Mafia reviewed recently, saying it combined ‘angelic harmonies with shimmering instrumentation throughout…drawing from elements of shoegaze and dream pop in a dreamy languorous mix, eschewing bombast and bravado for subtlety …
Track: Greta Stanley – Heavy Heat plus tour news
Hailing from the far north of Queensland, Australia, Greta Stanley has just released a gorgeous new single from her debut album ‘Full Grown’ released late last year. ‘Heavy Heat’ captures a sunny languorous feel of the tropical north, imbued with a sense of self-reflection and wistfulness. Stanley’s voice paints a beautiful, melancholic dreamscape on the …
Premiere: Manwomanchild – Memory Leak
We are delighted and honoured to premiere the new single from Philadelphian outfit Manwomanchild, called ‘Memory Leak’, being released on Tuesday, 6 March. Manwomanchild is based around the songwriting genius of David Child and the outfit has already released two albums since starting out in Rhodes Island back in 2008 and moving to Philadelphia in …
Track: Jack Ladder and the Dreamlanders – White Flag plus album and tour news
For the uninitiated, Jack Ladder (real name Tim Rogers) could be described as Sydney’s answer to Melbourne cool, epitomised by Nick Cave and Rowland S. Howard. Along with his band the Dreamlanders (consisting of various moonlighting indie rock luminaries) he has performed internationally, making appearances in London, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and shared …
Album Review: Andrew W.K. – You’re Not Alone
The funny thing about Andrew W.K.‘s music is that it seems to operate completely independently of your volume control. It’s loud. It’s so loud that after each song, the mind is completely eviscerated – the feeling you get when you hang your head out of the window of a speeding car. There’s no greater feeling …
Track: The Double Happiness – City
Those who remember the heady days of the Australian indie music scene in the eighties will remember the incredible range of bands playing every night on every pub on every corner – including bands that epitomised a certain charming innocence and simplicity while crafting indelible pop songs – bands like The Go-Betweens, The Particles, The …