Indie
Track: Australian pop artists Holly Hebe, Ivoris and Zhuli collaborate to release a golden ray of sardonic sunshine in the zesty track ‘Supervillain’.
A collaboration between a trio of Australia’s most engaging pop musicians, Holly Hebe, Ivoris and Zhuli, has seen the delivery of a very zesty track ‘Supervillain’ that pops and fizzles with sardonic glee. When all else around seems dark and gloomy, this is a golden ray of sunshine that lights up the firmament, with their …
Premiere: Perth’s Michael Day releases the epic, cinematic video for the yearningly beautiful track ‘Psych or the Priest’ and announces tour dates.
We are honoured to be able to present an exclusive look at the video for Perth musician/songwriter Michael Day‘s enigmatic track ‘The Psych or the Priest’, due for release tomorrow (30 September). Day says the track deals with uncertainty: The feeling of sinking. Unsure if you’re the victim or the culprit. Hurting in the midst …
News: EWAH and the Vision Of Paradise’s Emma Waters presents special showings of film ‘Finding Paradise’ with a soundtrack from the band’s album ‘The Warning Birds’.
EWAH and the Vision of Paradise (EVoP) released a magnificent album ‘The Warning Birds’ last year (see my 9.2/10 review here) – an album that I described as being a palimpsest for beauty and decay, wild and turbulent landscapes with the intrusion of modernity and the threats and ugliness this can entail. It is an album that …
Premiere: Steve Lane’s majestic ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ is a slow burning melodic gem that hypnotises and glows ahead of album release. Out through Last Night From Glasgow.
We are ever so honoured to premiere today the new single ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ from central Victorian Steve Lane. Floating on a bed of sweeping, weeping strings and a gentle patter of guitars and piano, ‘Don’t Forget To Breathe’ is breathtakingly elegant and mournful: an air of melancholy oozes from the crystalline cello strings …
Track: The brilliant Gena Rose Bruce collaborates with Bill Callahan in sultry new track ‘Foolishly in Love’
We here at Backseat Mafia have been long time fans of Melbourne-based chanteuse Gena Rose Bruce with her smoky, sultry voice and reverb-inflected laconic style that comes across as a melange of Mazzy Star and P.J. Harvey: a femme fatale with a steely spine cloaked in luscious velvet and a smoldering style. Her debut album …
Live Review: Black Kids – The 100 Club, London 15.09.2022
A fan clutches a Black Kids colouring book. Black Kids inspire this kind of devotion. He’ll probably colour it in without going over the edges. Then again, he won’t want to spoil the pristine pages of his heroes at all. He’ll wait for the limited-edition Black Kids felt tip pens to arrive. The 100 Club …
Gallery: Valery Trails Celebrate New Album With Show At The Great Club, Sydney 24.09.2022
Gallery: Valery Trails launch new album ‘Sounds Like Sunset’ with Sydney gig.
LIVE REVIEW : The New Routines/ Velvet / The Cowards at Sneeky Petes 22/9/22
Toot ! Toot ! All aboard the indie express ! Another clutch of new bands hurtle towards the upper slopes of indie greatness by entertaining a packed Sneeky Petes . The new student term saw the young team out in force and intent on creating atmosphere reciprocated by all three bands . Again , it …
Premiere: Key Out go for an endless, shimmering and breathtaking ‘Drive’ ahead of new album out through False Peak Records and launch gigs.
We are immobilised with excitement at being able to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single from Sydney’s magnificent Key Out: one of the most exciting outfits in the antipodean scene at the moment. ‘Drive’ has that indefinable Key Out sound: mesmerising shimmering folds of instrumentation that daub brushstrokes from a colourful multi-layered …
