Say Psych: Album Review, Create and Consume by The Love Dimension
The thing that strikes me about the opening to this album is how it manages to sound both hot and cold and the same time. There is an icey tingle infused by the warmth of the Californian sun as the West Coast melody kicks in. Thereafter, this opening track (the beginning of ‘Side X’), ‘And …
Psych Insight: Album Review, Mugstar/ Cosmic Dead split (Evil Hoodoo)
I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of split LPs, I know that they are a great thing for many bands since it gets their music out there for pretty much half the cost, and introduces them to a wider audience; but as a buyer of records I still like the idea …
Psych Insight: 20 Essential Psych Albums of 2014
This year I have teamed up with Adam Harmsworth of Psychedelic Drone Rock to bring you twenty albums that have really inspired us in 2014. After last year’s glut of fantastic new albums we really wondered whether 2014 could deliver more great music. We need not have worried because, if anything, this year has seen an even …
Live Review: Kogumaza, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 19.11.2014
Amazingly this was the first time I had got to see Kogumaza live. I have enjoyed them from afar for a long time, but somehow always managed to miss them in the past, so I was very happy to see that they were supporting Hookworms at the launch gig for The Hum album. The …
Live Review: Hookworms, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 19.11.14
I’ve seen Hookworms many times now, and I’ve seen them quite a few times at the always excellent Brudenell; but this felt like something different. This was the launch gig for the band’s second, excellent, album The Hum (you can read my review of it here) which, in my opinion, has cemented the band’s position …
Say Psych: Album Review – I’m Your Mind Fuzz by King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard
It was a rainy Thursday night in Leeds, and I had just had a long and full day which I had found pretty exhausting. I’d dragged myself out of the place where I was staying and, even up to the point of getting to the doors of The Belgrave Music Hall where the band were …
Psych Insight: Track: Anti Pony – I Go Places/ Cry on the Floor
The excellent PNKSLM label seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. Fresh from a great showcase at this year’s Liverpool PsychFest, the label have recently released a slew of great singles from Sudakistan and Lucern Raze, and now comes a great bit of psychedelic pop from Stockholm’s Anti Pony in the shape …
Live Review: Kikagaku Moyo 幾何学模様 – Wharf Chambers, Leeds 21.10.2014
Click on any photo at the bottom of this post to see the whole gallery from the gig. Kikagaku Moyo/ 幾何学模様 have been in my life for about a month now, but somehow it feels longer. I must admit that I did not immediately fall for the band’s considerable charms and it took me a …
Album Review: Atomikylä – Erkale
Dark, deranged, desolate and darkness are all words that came to mind listening to this first album from Atomikyla, a Finnish band comprising former members of Dark Buddha Rising and Oranssi Pazuzu. All this was before the death growl came in at around nine and a half minutes into the first track, ‘Alkuaineet’, marking the point …
Premiere: First release on Ghostly Figures records – Stay/ Ocean by Two Skies
Here at Backseat Mafia we pride ourselves in the fact that we don’t just regurgitate or cut and paste press releases, there are plenty of other sites that do that and that’s fine. We write for the site because we love music and want to promote it when we hear it, and we want others …