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Premiere: From the mystical Blue Mountains, T. Wilds unveils the most gorgeous and evocative video for the glorious track ‘Curious Moon’.
Due for release this Friday, 27 August, ‘Curious Moon’, the new single from Blue Mountains artist T. Wilds (aka Tania Wilds, the nom-de-plume of Tania Bowers) is a mesmerising ethereal track that seems to float on air, with Bowers’s voice an enchanting softly billowing cloud infused with an air of longing and melancholy. We are …
Track: Cardiff’s Inland Murmur release the delicate and fragile ‘Waterline’
The intricate layers and wistful air of ‘Waterline’ creates a delicately organic piece of music that is ethereal and dreamy. Created by Cardiff band Inland Murmur, the result is something that captures the essence of vulnerability and, indeed, anxiety that defines our current times. The band says the single was the product of the early …
Meet: We chat to Esme from Sadness and Complete Disappointment
After releasing the grungy gothic brilliance that was their EP ‘Fun’ back in March, Backseat Mafia put some questions to Esme from the band. First of all, how are you? How are you coping with the pandemic? Any message for your fans? 2020 was a flaming wheelie bin of steaming shit and 2021 has not …
EP: Sydney’s DMA’S release surprise EP, the euphoric ‘I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss You’ featuring shock and awe shoegaze single ‘We Are Midnight’
After a hectic past 18 months with the release of the album ‘The Glow’, a live double LP of their gig at Brixton and winning a slew of awards at the Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR), DMA’S have just released a surprise new EP entitled ‘I Love You Unconditionally, Sure Am Going To Miss …
Rising: We speak to Berlin artist L’aupaire after recent single When I Fall
Once we heard ‘When I Fall’, the recent single from Berlin based Robert Laupert, a small signal of hope written in a difficult period in his life, and wrapped up in this country folk exterior, we knew we needed to take notice of what he had to say, and find a little more out about …
News: New Zealand’s French For Rabbits announce new album ‘The Overflow’ through Reckless Yes/AAA Records/A Modest Proposal Records, and release the sparkling single ‘Ouija Board’.
After delighting us with the single ‘The Overflow’ last month (see my review here), New Zealand dream popsters extraordinaire French For Rabbits have just announced the release of their new album ‘The Overflow’ for 12 November 2021 and sweetened the deal with another shimmering luminescent single, ‘Ouija Board’. ‘Ouija Board’ is a gentler, more reflective …
Track: The enigmatic Us and I reveal dreamy and delicate new single ‘Fragile’ and announce debut EP ‘Loveless’ for 27 August 2021
Bangalore’s Us and I have unveiled a deliciously chill and ethereal debut single ‘Fragile’ and announced the release of their debut EP ‘Loveless’ for 27 August 2021. ‘Fragile’ matches a muscular synth riff with dreamy, ethereal vocals, mixing an M83 vibrant synth spine with distant haunting vocals that float across the firmament. There’s an eighties …
Album Review: Geoffrey O’Connor’s ‘For As Long As I Can Remember’ is a sparkling, indelible and stylish dream pop masterpiece.
Geoffrey O’Connor, who played in iconic Melbourne pop band Crayon Fields, has just released a magnificent solo album, ‘For As Long As I Remember’, and it is a shining beacon of sparkling, intelligent pop that provide aural succour during these dark times. Every song features duets with iconic singers which adds textures and layers that …
EP: Melbourne artist Eilish Gilligan reflects the generational zeitgeist with her sweeping, cinematic and personal EP ‘First One To Leave The Party’, plus announces launch dates.
Eilish Gilligan has a voice like a bell – it rings with an authenticity and clarity, imbued with personal expression and personality. Her subject matter has always been raw and personal: detailing the travails of a twenty-something filled with vulnerabilities, anxieties and yet empowered and resilient in that open self-expression. Her new EP, ‘First One …
Album Review: Otherish cast a glittering, intrigue-filled environment with their self-titled debut
Featuring a blend of Belfast and Bristol musical genes – primarily from four multi-instrumentalist’s – the first full statement from Otherish splices Pink Floyd, Radiohead, and folk elements to nourish their fermenting threads of philosophy, humanity, and fallibility. The band carry deliver these themes with deserving musical diversity and grandiosity; along with their rippling drums …