dream pop
Album Review: Sheffield band The Suncharms return with the shimmering, melodic sounds of ‘Things Lost’.
We are a bit late to this one, but then again it did take Sheffield band The Suncharms 32 years to follow up their album released in 1992, so that makes us feel a little better. And the return album, released late last year, is well worth visiting: it is a delightful collection of jangling, …
Album Review: The Church releases the exquisite ‘Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars – another collection of finely honed sonic treasures.
We could seriously dedicate a single writer full time to cover the creative output of Steve Kilbey over a year, and the release of ‘Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars’ with The Church and the imminent release of his project with Martin Kennedy (‘Premonition K’) illustrates my point perfectly. Will no one think of the …
EP Review: The glowing Jet City Sports Club release their sparkling new EP ‘Every Single Dream’.
Long time favourites here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, Eora/Sydney band Jet City Sports Club craft the most bittersweet and shimmering pop songs around, and they have now collected together four singles and one new track in a new EP entitled ‘Every Single Dream’. The band says of the EP: The new EP is a …
News: Eora/Sydney-based multi instrumentalist Jordy Burns releases the euphoric ‘Second Chances’ as she announces new EP and live dates.
Eora/Sydney-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Jordy Burns has just announced her debut EP, ‘Games’ out on Thursday, April 18. Accompanying this announcement is her latest single off the record, ‘Second Chances’ – produced by Luke Clark and mixed by Gambino. ‘Second Chances’ drives along on a motorik thrumming beat while Burns’s voice soars above, filled with a delicious …
Track: Eliza and the Delusionals want to ‘Make It Feel Like The Garden’ – a glorious, euphoric anthem.
With an arching, aching chorus that is higher than the Himalayas and a glorious, shimmering sparkle throughout, the new single ‘Make It Feel Like The Garden’ from Eliza and the Delusionals is an absolute dream pop triumph. Threaded with a burning melancholy and unforgettable melodies, this is a thrill throughout, evidence of the dynamic songwriting …
Track: If only she could be the ‘Life of the Party’ – Greta Stanley unveils a delicious slice of yearning dream pop.
It’s been quite a start to the year for one of our perennial favourites here at the Antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, Greta Stanley, who lost her home in the recent Cairns floods. But her response is the release of the uber cool slice of dreamy pop which is the single ‘Life of the Party’. …
Premiere: The Felicity Cripps Band peers ‘Inside A Keyhole’ and creates a transfixing, glittering world.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Inside A Keyhole’ from the Felicity Cripps Band: a gently floating ethereal bundle of joy that shimmers and sparkles under Cripps’s velvet vocals and the arpeggiated guitars and instrumentation. There is a psychedelic blush to the track – the transfixing and hypnotic vocals have a Beach Boys …
Track/ Video: Long time friends Submyth & Frankie Knight weave dream pop and down-tempo on the luscious ‘How Do You Feel ?’
Gliding in on a gentle breeze of nu-soul positivity and glistening down-tempo, ‘How Do You Feel ?’, the new single from DJ/producer Submyth and synth-pop songster Frankie Knight, answers that question itself. Here is music that’s looking to calm but also to question. A fine blend then, which balances the lush and loose in a …
Album Review: Deep in the Blue Mountains, Kid Cornered releases the ethereal ‘Mist On The Plains’ album.
Kid Cornered is the moniker for Matthew Toohey, who has slung guitar in the past for Tania Bowers (we have review in the past under T Wilds). Kid Cornered has just released an album (with The Ice Chest Orchestra) of sparkling gentle tracks entitled ‘Mist On The Plains’. It a gorgeous collection of folk-driven songs …
Track: Rinse is no ‘Stranger’ to us – he’s back with a shimmering new single with Caroline Loveglow, live dates and news of signing to Cohort Records.
Now ensconced in Naarm/Melbourne, former Meanjin/Brisbane dream pop maestro Rinse (the nom de plume of multi-instrumentalist and producer Joe Agius) has just announced his signing to Cohort Records (home of the marvellous Juice Webster) and celebrated with the release of another shimmering gem ‘Stranger’, with Los Angeles-based producer and songwriter Caroline Loveglow. Of course, Rinse’s …