dream pop
Track: French duo Overland Inn provide a dreamy pop repose with new single ‘Martingale’
Signed to the magnificent Brisbane label False Peak Records, French/Czech duo Overland Inn open up their fair doors for the first time since early last year with another swoon-worthy dreamy single entitled ‘Martingale’. As I’ve mentioned before, this duo have taken the ghost of Serge Gainsbourg and wrapped it up in a contemporary cloak of …
Premiere: ‘No Meaning Man’ – Primo Italo shoegaze maestros We Melt Chocolate cook up a dreamy psychedelic video for the sonic thunderstorm single, with a new album on the way.
Straight out of Florence, We Melt Chocolate are an integral part of the highly impressive Italian psych/shoegaze scene and we are overjoyed at being able to bring you an exclusive look at the video for their thundering new single ‘No Meaning Man’. ‘No Meaning Man’ is shoegaze dream pop heaven: a hazy fugue of guitars, …
Premiere: We Set Sail unfurl their last ever single ‘Living In A Time When Only Cigarettes Would Kill You’ as it’s anchors aweigh for the dream pop maestros.
It is with mixed emotions that we premiere the final ever single from Brisbane dream pop exponents We Set Sail, amusing entitled ‘Living In A Time When Only Cigarettes Would Kill You’. Nothing ever lasts forever and all good things must come to an end. The track opens with a poignant spoken conversation asking how …
News: The legendary Slowdive announce new album ‘everything is alive’ and unveil the glorious first single ‘kisses’ on eve of antipodean tour
In very exciting news, today, Slowdive announced their new album, everything is alive, coming out Friday, 1 September on Dead Oceans, and unveiled the video for the gorgeous lead single, ‘kisses’. This comes ahead of the band’s headline Australia and New Zealand tour which kicks off in July — tickets on sale here. The announcement also comes ahead of the band’s first-ever Glastonbury performance this weekend, …
Premiere: Sydney’s Grids & Dots unveil the luscious, evocative video for the dream pop delight that is the appealing ‘Pink Plaster Walls’. A New EP is also on the way.
We are overjoyed to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the dreamy evocative track ‘Pink Plaster Walls’ from Sydney’s Grids & Dots. ‘Pink Plaster Walls’ is a heavenly slice of dream pop: unfurling across a bright blue sky with its iridescent glow and gentle, warm disposition. The distant, almost observational, delivery …
Premiere: Brisbane’s SGO search for ‘Pieces of You’ with their usual dreamy, mesmerising delivery, all coated in sparkle and regret.
We are extremely honoured to exclusively unveil the new single ‘Pieces of You’ from Brisbane’s dream pop exponents, SGO. Formerly known as Syrup Go On, we are massive fans of this ethereal band who have an inordinate ability to mary melody and euphoria in their music, creating vast cinematic vistas in the process. ‘Pieces Of …
Live Review plus Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival, Trentemøller, MAC 02 Centre, Hobart, 18.06.2023
Last night, Anders Trentemøller and his full band played the last night of the musical part of the Dark Mofo Festival in the vast cold cavern that is the MAC 02 hall. A performance so immersive and cathartic it made the venue feel like an intimate cavern, and heated up the interior like a solar …
Track: We Set Sail are departing and their penultimate offering is a beautiful and passionate ‘Broken Umbrella’. Out through False Peak Records.
We Set Sail are a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia and if there is any certainty in life, it’s that good things don’t last for ever. We Set Sail have announced their final departure into the Queensland sunset and ‘Broken Umbrella’ is their penultimate release before anchors up, with their …
Premiere: Italian neo-psych band Bluedaze unveils a little shoegaze sparkle with ‘Flesh’ ahead of EP release.
We are honoured to give you an exclusive look at the video for the new track ‘Flesh’ from Italian neo-psych band Bluedaze, title track to their new EP due out on 30 June 2023. The track a thoroughly enjoyable blast of shimmering sounds that ebbs and flows, mixing a heady onslaught of guitars with quieter …
Premiere: North Arm’s new single ‘Ordinary Ways’ is a gently simmering dreamy single that sparkles with intensity.
We are overjoyed to premiere the new single ‘Ordinary Ways from North Arm, the project of Novocastrian (NSW) Roderick Smith. The first release since North Arm’s ‘Bring The Daylight’ album back in 2021 (see our review here), ‘Ordinary Ways’ is a slow burning and yet intense track filled with dappling instrumentation sofly swelling underneath Smith’s …