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Track: Great Australian Bank provide a solid investment with their searing new single ‘In Your Eyes’, and live dates.
Great Australian Bank live up to the solid foundations promised by their name with a thumping great single ‘In Your Eyes’. The sound has a distinctly antipodean feel to it, born from the sticky carpeted pubs of the endless suburbs filed with passion and energy. A guitar attack that recalls The Church is thrown into …
Premiere: Join Big League on the ‘Tea and Sandwich Committee’ for an eviscerating slice of glorious indie fare that tears through you like a tornado as new album is heralded.
Perennial favourites here at the Antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, Big League are about to release a new single with the intriguing title of ‘Tea and Sandwich Committee’, and we are ever so pleased to be able to bring you a sneak early listen before its release tomorrow (Friday, 2 February 2024). Of course Big …
Premiere: We get an exclusive look at the video for the dreamy pop of new single ‘The Black Bull’ by Melbourne artist Sainthill ahead of new album ‘Dream Animal’
We are very honoured to bring you an exclusive look at the new video for the sweeping, beautiful new track ‘The Black Bull’ by Melbourne-based songwriter Sainthill (the moniker of Tom Larkey), ahead of the release tomorrow. ‘The Black Bull’ is a shimmering melancholy track with guitars that glitter and sparkle in the firmament like …
Track: Eilish Gilligan returns with the melancholic, atmospheric ‘Angel Face’ on announcement of her debut album ‘Final Girl’
The haunting stabbing piano in the background imbues the new track ‘Angel Face’ from the highly talented producer and songwriter Eilish Gilligan with a certain level of anxiety and tension as Gilligan sings of personal vulnerability in the delicate track. A longtime favourite of ours here at Backseat Mafia, Gilligan continues to release the most …
News: With ethereal new single ‘On and On’, Grace Cummings announces new album ‘Ramona’ and UK/Europe tour with King Gizzard
Melbourne chanteuse Grace Cummings has the voice of an angel and the capacity to deliver the most ethereal and atmospheric music in the process. Case in point is her new single ‘On and On’ which floats in the ether like a diaphanous silken scarf billowing on the breeze. Accompanied by a lush and cinematic video …
Track: Naarm/Melbourne’s Okay Dane unveil the epic anthemic single ‘Interstellar Nihilist’ with launch date.
‘Interstellar Nihilist’ is the new single from Naarm/Melbourne indie band Okay Dane and it reveals a cool and enigmatic burst of thundering pop that is cathartic and joyous. A detectable and delicious strain of melancholia threads though a track that is anthemic and nuanced, with a chorus that flexes its pop muscles with a quiet/loud …
Track: Melbourne’s chanteuse extraordinaire Mathilde Anne invites you to ‘Break’ her in another thrilling single, with band Des Cortez, ahead of tour.
We had our socks knocked off when we heard the single ‘Way Up There’ from Mathilde Anne way back in July, and she has followed up with another brilliant tune ‘Break’ with the band Des Cortez. Again showcasing her velvet soft achingly melancholic vocals, ‘Break’ serves to confirm Anne as a vital and exciting new …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: The Silversound’s FuzzBoxGirl EP launch at The Brunswick Ballroom 03.11.2023
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in sunny Melbourne, The Silversound came to show their latest wares with the launch of their new EP, FuzzBoxGirl (available via Cheersquad Records). In an early surprise, the band initially took to the stage minus their rhythm section of Stu Thomas and Leroy Cope. The two guitar players of the …
Track: Melbourne’s Hooper Crescent experience a little jaunty ‘Karaoke Love’ ahead of ‘Essential Tremors’ album release.
Melbourne art pop band Hooper Crescent are developing an impressive body of highly original tracks that are about to be released in an album, ‘Essential Tremors’, due out on 5 February 2024 through Spoilsport Records and Earth Libraries. As a taster, they today release the single ‘Karaoke Love’ which is a jaunty, spiky slice of …
News: Melbourne’s masters of fuzz, The Silversound are back with exciting new EP
Melbourne psychedelic supergroup, The Silversound, have re-convened after a short break, re-set their effects pedals, turned the fuzz up to 11, and added to their 2023 recorded haul with the release of new EP, Fuzz Box Girl, a tasty book-end to their March debut, self-titled album. The EP, while obviously a vehicle for the title …