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Premiere: Brisbane’s Lackadaisies unveil a charming low-fi and jaunty gem ‘Payphone Text’ and reveal launch date.
Lackadaisies are a sort of Brisbane indie supergroup and we are very pleased to premiere their new single ‘Payphone Text’, a charming, shambling and joyful sonic ride. Consisting of Nathan Kearney (Camping, Nathan John Kearney), Grace Pashley (Full Power Happy Hour) and Marnie Vaughn (Married Man, No DOZ), Lackadaisies have a breadth of experience which …
Album Review: Lewis Goldmark unleashes the delicate and evocative brilliance of ‘Cut and Flash’.
Blue Mountains resident Lewis Goldmark has just unveiled his debut album ‘Cut and Flash’ via Broken Stone Records/Remote Control Records, and it is a ray of golden sunshine leavened with a sense of nostalgia and a bittersweet, sepia-tinged air. Lewis Goldmark is in fact Liam Judson from Belles Will Ring (and Magnetic Heads) and producer of many eminent bands, some …
Track: TV Priest – It Was Beautiful
TV Priest have shared thier new single ‘It Was Beautiful’, taken from the forthcoming album ‘My Other People’ due 17th June via Sub Pop Records. Vocalist Charlie Drinkwater says of the single, “‘It Was Beautiful’ is a love song about the past, present, and future. A reminder that love is the most essential thing. The …
Premiere: Singapore based indie trio Coming Up Roses reveal new single ’Would You Ever’; see and hear it hear, first
Taken from their imminent EP Everything Is, Singapore alt-indie trio Coming Up Roses hsve just revealed a new single and video called ’Would You Ever’ and were delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the new single, the band say, “‘Would You Ever’ is about leaving the life …
Premiere: The Good Love emit golden sonic rays with the radiant single ‘Sunshine Sometime’ and announce rural tour.
We are honoured to premiere the new video from NSW outfit The Good Love – a slinky, soul-inflected piece of solid gold. Glorious harmonies and epic choruses combine to create something quite anthemic. There’s an easy sixties glow, touched with a hint of psychedelia, and singer Leroy Ashford-Meehan’s golden tonsils add a pastoral, bucolic glow. …
Album Review: Harry Styles – Harry’s House
The highly anticipated third album from Harry Styles is only days away and sees this modern pop icon fearlessly find himself as a solo artist. Aptly titled ‘Harry’s House’, the album is an all-encompassing stream of consciousness alongside a unique retro-pop sound. ‘Harry’s House’ is the natural progression from the stepping stone debut and sophomore …
Album Review: Mallrat’s ‘Butterfly Blue’ is a perfect collection of pure pop jewels, fused with indie rock and rap, that glitters and glows.
It’s hard to believe ‘Butterfly Blue’ (out through Dew Process) is Mallrat‘s debut album. She has graced us with two stunning EPs and a series of brilliant singles that have illustrated her perfect amalgam of feisty yet achingly beautiful tracks that seamlessly drift between pure pop, indie rock and rap (sometimes all within one song), …
Track: There’s A Tuesday don’t want to be the ‘Girl At Night’ – a sparkling piece of melodic whimsy with a message from this Christchurch dream pop outfit.
Signed to BENEE’s record label Olive Records, There’s A Tuesday reveal an inherent sense of melody and melancholy in their new single ‘Girl At Night’ – a track full of charm and insouciance. This follows their earlier single ‘Baby Blue’ reviewed by me here. There is a message of unrequited love mixed in with the frustrations …
Track: Laura Mac unveil a blinding ray of high-stepping sunshine with new track ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’, and announce debut gigs.
Laura Mac‘s new single ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’ is a effervescent blast of sonic goodness, with a hyper kinetic disco shuffle in a paean to bacchanalian excess. This Sunshine Coast band certainly knows how to bottle the sun’s rays and spray serotonin over the most light-deprived individual. The sound is all blistering pop and …