Music
Album Review: Pompeya – Tropical Remixed
Following hot on the heels of their first US release, Tropical – an album that showed that pop/funk/disco/new wave (yes, really, all of those things) could convincingly be mashed together into dancefloor sized pieces and thrown out there all the way from Moscow, comes Tropical Remixed. It’s an album that does exactly what it says …
Feature: Darker Sound – Helltrash
Helltrash is the scuzzy and sleazy industrial metal project of Vlixx Vaden. Whilst Vlixx is joined by several others for liveshows, Helltrash is in essence Vlixx (in the same way NIN is Trent Reznor). Blending chunky chugging riffs with pulsating synth beats, samples and Vlixx’s intense filtered vocals. Helltrash are a musical tour de force. …
Album Review: Temples – ‘Sun Structures’
With half of the country under water, the rest battered in to submission by relentless winds, it’s pretty hard to imagine sunshine and gentle breezes. But help is at hand. The debut album from Kettering quartet Temples is here and it’s more than capable of transporting you away from the deluge and back to the …
Album Review: Papir – IIII
Not too long ago I found this little slice of musical heaven located in Denmark. It’s a little record label that goes bythe name of El Paraiso Records. It was started by some guys in a band called Causa Sui in order to release their records to the listening public. As well as releasing Causa …
See: The Crookes release new video for Holy Innocents
Recently named as “Sheffield heroes”, The Crookes have once again proved their status and released a music video to Holy Innocents, the fifth track on the much anticipated Soapbox, the boys’ third studio album. The video was exclusively released yesterday to impatient fans as it was sent directly to their email inboxes. The rest of the …
Exclusive: Benny Maths makes Valentines Mix for Backseat Mafia
On this, the prequel to the most romantic of days, we’ve managed to secure Sheffield (vinyl only) beatmaster Benny Maths, and tie him down to an exclusive mix. as we all arrive back from hushed visits to clothes/cards/tat emporiums, or Asda, so we need that perfect soundtrack for the given outcome of the day, whether …
Live Review: Little Comets at Leadmill, Sheffield 12.02.2014
Marking the midpoint in a 14-date tour, the Little Comets came to Sheffield to show the locals how to party. Catfish and the Bottlemen proved to be a great supporting act, working the crowd until everyone could feel the music in their hearts and in their breath. Wednesday nights are difficult to work with in …
Album Review: Mogwai – Rave Tapes
It was July of 2004 and my best friend and I headed to Chicago to the Curiosa Festival. We were psyched, man. The Cure, Interpol, The Rapture, and a bunch of other bands. Who cares who else was there? The Cure and Interpol, that’s all we needed to know. So we arrived in the early …
Not Forgotten: Poisoned Electrick Head…Take Your Protein Pills!
If you will, allow me to take you back to Runcorn in 1990. Not somewhere many people would want to go back to voluntarily, I’ll grant you. Not only that, I would specifically like to take you to Foxy’s night club, a small nondescript club, where disco pop never stopped (until maybe 1am). What possible …
Album Review: Tom Brosseau – Grass Punks
There are certain records that seem like they are nurtured, almost organically, like a gardener in his allotment allows things to grow. North Dakota songman Tom Brosseau’s new record, his first in five years, but his seventh overall, certainly has that feeling about it. That was perhaps expected in his music to a certain extent. …