Features
Track: Gold Coast’s Radolescent provide a much needed jolt to the system with ‘Tough’ and provide us with a list of their influences and tour dates.
Radolescent‘s ‘Tough’ is a glorious jangle fest with a rock hard spine and anthemic rumble replete with a self-deprecatory glint in the eye. It’s as big and expansive as the beautifully shot video accompanying the track filmed somewhere in a rural and pastoral heaven filled with sunshine and giant agricultural machinery. The band says of …
Feature: Leon Garner Gives Us A Track By Track On New Album Songbook
With the release of the band’s album ‘Songbook’ we asked Leon Garner to take us through the album’s tracks. We wanted to make a contemporary songbook album, not something that could of been dug up in time casual, but that felt relevant. We deliberately didn’t rehearse or write charts, or do more than a few …
Feature: Perth’s Sky Cave releases a visceral and emotive single and video for the anthemic track ‘Fall’, and take us through the blooming Perth music scene.
The video for Perth rockers Sky Cave‘s single ‘Fall’ is, to make no bones about it, confronting. Dealing with the sensitive issue of mental health challenges, it has, however, an important message about resilience and strength that is empowering and euphoric as the track itself: promoting positivity and compassion in an era that seems often …
Feature: Fredrick Fuller Of Night Movies Gives Us A Track by Track One New Album ‘Dreamish’
Fredrick Fuller the man behind Night Movies has given Backseat Mafia a glimpse into the forthcoming album Dreamish which is out now digitally worldwide on Fuller’s own Soundmaker Records label. Artwork to accompany the album was specially painted by artist Richard J. Butler and titled ‘Sunset (The Winding Path)’. Read our interview with Fuller here …
Feature: Ben Shemie Breaks Down His Experimental New Album ‘Desiderata’ – Track By Track
The new album from Ben Shemie is a sporadic, intense and expansive exploration of sound through layers strings, electronics, vocoders and clicking beats. Wildly experimental and musically challenging, it’s a hugely varied listen with a lot to digest and heaps of expressive, untethered musical ideas. Shemie gives us a track by track: The Departure – …