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News: The legendary Yo La Tengo announce new album ‘This Stupid World’ with single ‘Fallout’ as a tasty aperitif.
Yo La Tengo have been on the forefront of indelibly melodic indie pop for decades and it is comforting to see their return with the announcement of a new album – their sixteenth – ‘This Stupid World’, due out on 10 February 2023 through Matador Records/Remote Control Records. As a first taste of what’s to …
Track: Dunedin’s Soaked Oats release the laconic and uber cool ‘Something’, announce new album and launch date
With a touch of Lou Reed in its insouciant laid-back dry observational style, the new single ‘Something’ from Ōtepoti/Dunedin four-piece Soaked Oats is a delicious track imbued with a laconic easy style and a huge dollop of panache. Of course, Dunedin has a storied history in producing the very best in indie fare, and clearly …
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 …
Track: The National release gorgeous new track ‘Weird Goodbyes’ featuring Bon Iver.
Indie legends The National have just released a gorgeous new single ‘Weird Goodbyes’ through 4AD/Remote Control Records featuring the vocals of Bon Iver (Justin Vernon). With the stately grace that typify the band’s distinctive sound, “Weird Goodbyes’ is a delicate yearning track with Vernon’s contribution adding a different, softer texture and strings augmenting the ethereal …
Premiere: Richard Cartwright (Richard In Your Mind) exclusively reveals his dreamy, floaty tab of psychedelia, ‘Seaweed’.
We are honoured to be able to bring you the premiere of the single ‘Seaweed’ from Richard In Your Mind member Richard Cartwright, out through Broken Stone Records/Remote Control Records. Just like a piece of seaweed drifting across endless oceans, ‘Seaweed’ is a floating delight: dreamy, hypnotic movements propel the track forward with dappled splashes …
Album Review: Horsegirl fulfill all promises in the stunning ‘Versions of Modern Performance’ – one of the most authentic and exciting debuts.
There is a visceral discordancy and inherent chaos that threads throughout ‘Versions of Modern Performance’, the debut album from Chicago trio Horsegirl, (out through Matador Records/Remote Control Records). This anarchy is magically and stunningly resolved by the bitter sweet melodies and harmonies that cloak and bind the barbed-wire strands. The oft dissociated, disconnected vocals are …
Album Review: Lewis Goldmark unleashes the delicate and evocative brilliance of ‘Cut and Flash’.
Blue Mountains resident Lewis Goldmark has just unveiled his debut album ‘Cut and Flash’ via Broken Stone Records/Remote Control Records, and it is a ray of golden sunshine leavened with a sense of nostalgia and a bittersweet, sepia-tinged air. Lewis Goldmark is in fact Liam Judson from Belles Will Ring (and Magnetic Heads) and producer of many eminent bands, some …
News: Mess Esque take their simmering and achingly beautiful sound live across Australia in May before US dates.
Last year’s self-titled EP by the dream collaboration that is Mess Esque was a stunning release last year: we said it was an ethereal, gentle delight: yearning brittle and delicate vocals that glide over subtle but barely restrained instrumentation that adds a gold filigree to a barbed wire brush. It has the raw and visceral …
News: Interpol alert – New York’s finest announce new album ‘The Other Side of Make-Believe’ for July through Matador Records/Remote Control, and release the reflective, atmospheric single ‘Toni’.
It’s exciting to see Interpol back in action with news of the release of their seventh LP ‘The Other Side of Make-Believe’, due out on 15 July through Matador / Remote Control. To ease the anticipation, Interpol have released a single and video for the opening track, ‘Toni’. The archetypal Interpol sound is at the …
Album Review: EWAH & The Vision of Paradise release the stunning atmospheric chill of ‘The Warning Birds’: an epic reflection of a sense of time and place, beauty and pain.
Post punk new wave chill never sounded better than in the new release ‘The Warning Birds’ from Hobart band EWAH & The Vision of Paradise (EVoP). The much delayed album gestated over a period of disturbance in the ether. Emma Waters – EWAH – says of the development of the album: We’ve been sitting on …