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Album Review: Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape releases the statuesque and breathtakingly beautiful album ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’, and announces launch date in March.
‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ can proudly take its place amongst the great Australian albums and songs that beautifully capture the landscapes, skies and very heart of the land. Albums from The Triffids’ ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ capturing the Western Australian coastlines and the sense of isolation, to The Go-Betweens’ ’16 Lovers Lane’ reflecting the urban ennuis …
Track: Sydney’s Flowertruck blossom brightly in their return with the effervescent, hyperactive ‘Crying Shame’, complete with album and tour news.
There seems to be a strange black hole in everyone’s calendar between 2020 and 2021 where nothing seemed to happen, and we all existed in a kind of void. Musically, while many bands lurked in studios and proliferated, some seemed to hibernate. However, like the light at the end of the tunnel signaling the end …
News: Australian institution Screamfeeder announces new album ‘Five Rooms’, tour and unveils the delicious pop fuzz single ‘Don’t Get Me Started’
Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have announced the release of their new album ‘Five Rooms’ on 6 May 2022, along with a tour of the East Coast capitals with fellow legend Adalita (Magic Dirt). …
See: Sulfate unveil a chilling horror tale in the video for the ominous, prowling track ‘Bottle It In’ off the Flying Nun album ‘Godzone’.
New Zealand band Sulfate have just released the most terrifying and unsettling video for the track ‘Bottle It In’, off their recently released album ‘Godzone’ (Flying Nun Records). ‘Bottle It In’ is over six minutes of a prowling and rumbling sonic menace that builds up to a cathartic crescendo. Squalling guitars and an undercurrent of …
Premiere: Sydney trio oWo unveil their ‘Exit Plan’: another vital slice of shimmering, anarchic post punk pie.
We are very pleased to exclusively reveal the new single from Sydney band oWo, ‘Exit Plan’. This is a thundering insistent track with a fuzzy chain saw guitar attack. The snarling delivery and attack recedes to something more ethereal and dreamy half way through as a wayward intermission, before launching back into the scything assault. …
Premiere: Hobart musician Ben Salter unveils new VR video for the luminescent track ‘bliss’ and we review his mesmerising new album ‘twenty-one words for happiness’.
We are very pleased to unveil the premiere of a new video by Hobart/nippaluna artist Ben Salter on the eve of the release of the last of a trilogy of recordings he has done as artist in residence at the Museum Of Old and New Art (MONA) – the largest privately funded collection of art …
Premiere: Brisbane icons Cloud Tangle and Fingerless release split single ‘Eve’/’Villanelle’ through 4000 Records in tribute to Season 4 of Killing Eve.
Ever the promoter of sonic innovation and taste maker extraordinaire, 4000 Records, has rounded up two of Brisbane’s most exciting artists (and perennial favorites here at the antipodean headquarters of Backseat Mafia), Cloud Tangle and Fingerless, for a limited edition split single. The inspiration for this momentous occasion couldn’t be cooler: the release of the …
Album Review: Luke Seymoup’s ‘Tales of Suburban Angst’ is an effervescent collection of power pop punk gems.
We met Luke Seymoup with the release of the single ‘Paint’ – a gloriously hyperactive piece of power pop – and he has now released the album ‘Tales of Suburban Angst’. Seymoup has continued with what he started out with: a collection of danceable, anthemic pop gems that glisten and sparkle with a self-deprecating sense …
Premiere: Brisbane’s A Country Practice unveils beautiful, emotive video for the poignant track ‘The Longest Drought’ and announce launch dates.
A Country Practice exemplify an archetypal antipodean sound: unabashed Australian accents mixed with a detailed eye for the minutiae of everyday life, bursting ripe with a poignancy and sense of place. We are very honoured to be able to premiere the exquisite video for the track ‘The Longest Drought’ from the band’s debut album ‘I …
Track: Sydney’s Jet City Sports Club unveil a spirited, jangling slice of heavenly melancholic pop in track ‘She Don’t Need No One’ and announce launch date.
With a genetic make up that has hints of The Sundays and The Cranberries as well as an antipodean bloodline stretching back to bands like Even As We Speak, The Killjoys and The Clouds, Sydney band Jet City Sports Club have released the sparkling ‘She Don’t Need One’. It’s jingle jangle guitars aplenty with with …