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Live Review and Gallery: Wolf Alice/ Just Mustard, 3Olympia Theatre, 29.08.2022
2022 BRIT award winners Wolf Alice finally brought their rescheduled world tour to Dublin’s 3Olympia Theatre for the first of 2 nights on Monday. They brought a fantastic performance and great showmanship to a very excited sold-out crowd. Dundalk natives Just Mustard were on support for the night and handled it with the polish and …
Track: The legendary The Church return with new single, title track to forthcoming album ’The Hypnogogue’, ahead of Australian tour.
It’s been a while since The Church graced us with their ethereal presence, although main man Steve Kilbey has not been resting on his laurels by any means, having released a swathe of stunning material on his own and through collaborations with Martin Kennedy (All India Radio) and Glenn Bennie (Underground Lovers) over the last …
Live Review: Passenger/ Luke Sital Singh, Vicar Street, 24/08/2022
Tonight Mike Rosenberg aka Passenger started his 2022 worldwide tour with a visit to Dublin Prestigious Vicar Street with support from Luke Sital Singh and it was a fantastic display of singer songwriters at their best. Like Sital Singh was a fantastic support act for Passenger. He took the stage, just him and his guitars …
Album Review: Prudence’s ‘Negatives’ takes us into the heart of darkness – an ominous, brooding collection of treasures that glitters in the void.
With psychedelic-inflected vocals, nuanced and louche, the ghostly apparition that is Tom Crandles’s musical project Prudence has just released ‘Negatives’. It is a gothic-flavoured collection that reflects the period of turmoil over the last few years, bleeding through every pore, and yet seems to offer a glimpse of hope in the end. Opening track ‘Introduction’ …
Track: Mess Esque unveil new track ‘Armour Your Armor’ as they bring their frail and beautiful sound to the world on tour.
Last year’s magnificent self-titled album from Mess Esque was for me one of the stand out releases of the year, and recognition of the duo’s stature and the album’s imperial majesty resulted in them embarking on a world-wide adventure in the US and, currently in Europe, supporting Kurt Vile. In the midst of this, the …
Track: Dan Lyons & The Tenants – Golden Handshake (Feat Sorry’s Asha Lorenz)
Dan Lyons and the Tenants Have shared their third single, ‘Golden Handshake’ feat Sorry’s Asha Lorenz on vocals, with an accompanying ‘cinematic’ video. The track is taken from the album ‘Shuttered Dreams’ due on the 16th of September via Shaker Records. Dan Lyons says of the song, “Hollywood Babylon! A falling star struggles with his existence and reminisces about the good old days, destined for a tragic and clichéd end he …
Track: Salarymen ease gently back into our pop dreams with ‘Young Guns’ – a dark view of society leavened by an indelible sparkling delivery. Plus album and tour news.
We are pleased to see the return of the vintage-tinged dream pop shimmer of Sydney duo Salarymen with their deceptively sunshine filled single ‘Young Guns’. The single is a first taste of their sophomore EP due out October 20, and comes as the duo announce international shows in Japan for November 2022. The dual vocals …
Premiere: The Nethered’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ is a refreshing breeze of languid joy and comes ahead of album news.
With gentle background vocals and gentle guitars lapping at the shores, ‘The Long Goodbye’ from ollo’s Alex Crowfoot under the name The Nethered is a fifties-flavoured widescreen epic: easy and languid music that bursts with a melancholic ray of sunshine. We are honoured to premiere this luscious track on Backseat Mafia. ‘The Long Goodbye’ seems …
Album Review: Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird unveil the glorious and majestic ‘Smiles of Earth’, out through Double Drummer, on the eve of a national tour.
‘Smiles of Earth’ is quite simply a glorious album and, for me, immediately takes its place as one of my contenders for album of the year. The new album from Melbourne outfit Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird (CTBNF), out through the esteemed Double Drummer, is a perfect storm of incredible songwriting, magnificent instrumentation and an …
Premiere: Blair Jollands lends his enthralling vocals and style to the Billie Eilish track ‘Everything I Wanted’.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Everything I Wanted’ from New Zealand born, Europe/UK resident Blair Jollands. In a departure from my usual reviews, this is actually a cover of a Billie Eilish song and to my mind, covers are only interesting when they bring something new and unexpected to a track. …