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Album Review: Aldous Harding – Warm Chris – Fire Walk with Me
Aldous Harding’s ‘Warm Chris’ is an early contender for album of the year.
Track: Jeremiah Moon – Melusine
Seattle-based singer/songwriter/classically-trained cellist and illustrator Jeremiah Moon has shared a new lyric video for ‘Melusine’, a track off his recently released debut EP ‘Sputnik,’ out now via Enci Records. Read our review here. One of the best tracks on his superb EP, ‘Melusine’, is a dark track with a haunting quality from the swirling electronic noises under the …
Live Review: The Scratch / Gaolbyrd – 3Olympia, Dublin 19.03.2022
The Scratch’s show in the 3Olympia Theatre was another highly anticipated show originally meant to take place in the Academy a little under 2 years ago. The show was since upgraded to the 3Olympia due to extra demand! The Scratch are a 4 piece acoustic act from Dublin that mix genres from traditional Irish to …
Track: A. Smyth returns with the lush and atmospheric single ‘Long Night’ and news of live dates.
Last year’s ‘Lost Animals’ from Dublin troubadour A. Smyth (reviewed by me here) was a gorgeous collection of delicate musings and lush vibrant instrumentation. Smyth is back with a new single, ‘Lost Night’, which continues this lush sonic journey. Smyth’s melancholic delivery reflects the song’s serious themes, and yet there lies a sense of hope …
Track: Foy Vance – Sapling (Feat Rag’N’Bone Man)
Irelands Foy Vance has collaborated with Rag’n’Bone Man on new single ‘Sapling’, taking from Vance’s album ‘Signs of Life’ available via Ed Sheeran’s Gingerbread Man Records. The duet with Rag’n’Bone Man is a stunning new version of this track. ‘Signs Of Life’ is Vance’s fourth studio album and second on Gingerbread Man Records and the follow up …
Live Review: Dana Gavanski – The Lexington, London 08.03.2022
I’m afraid the mosh-pit has been cancelled. To the uninitiated the London gig scene may seem hip, cool and above all – dominated by the young and open-minded. Tonight that misconception is laid bare. Here in the city I love, a city I consider to be the global capital of culture, diversity and youthful vibrancy …
Live review: This is the Kit, Falmouth, March 4th – West Country meets West Coast and proves a very fine blend
WE’RE not quite there, you know, not yet; not quite. Back to normal, that is. It’s taken me until early March to lose my 2022 gig cherry, mostly because the ‘rona still lingers as a particularly unwelcome surprise in the nooks and crannies of life, ready to spring out with its super-infectious, gap-toothed grin, and …
Live: Emily Barker Returns to a sodden Sydney
Emily Barker and Lukas Drinkwater perform thought-provoking set in sodden Sydney
Premiere: Alannah Russack (The Hummingbirds, Aerial Maps) invites you to ‘Tend Your Fire’: a slow burning southern-tinged paean to positivity and resilience. Catch her light the fuse live.
It is with the greatest pleasure that Backseat Mafia exclusively brings you the second solo single this year from the singer/guitarist Alannah Russack, an icon of the indie music scene with her role on the legendary The Hummingbirds and more recently The Aerial Maps. ‘Tend Your Fire’ is a languid, slow burning fuse of a song …
Album review: Shane Parish – ‘Liverpool’: pulling sea shanties leftfield and forward, forward, ho! for a post-industrial, post-rock generation KICKERS
IF YOU don’t know Shane Parish and his oeuvre – and chances are, unless you’re a regular reader of Wire and the deeper corners of Pitchfork and suchlike, you possibly don’t – be prepared to have a new guitar soli-meets-postrock pin-up rock up on your block, as his new album, Liverpool, takes what might be …