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Released earlier this year ‘Urgency In Dead Air’ is the follow up to the band’s previous album ‘Our Love Noire’. Alex Keevill the man behind the noise gave us an interesting and full run down on the tracks of the new album. A heads up before I start this – ‘Urgency in Dead Air’ is …

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Birmingham blue rockers Blue Nation have released their new EP Echoes digitally today and are set to release it physically on the 24th of September. The band gave us a track by track for their new EP which is available on all good DSPs. Background When recording we were in a great state, we knew …

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Hailing from Canada the ferocious new rock band Excuses Excuses are set to light up the world of rock when they release their debut album. The band gave us a track by track of this much anticipated album. Background The LISTEN UP! record was an absolute rollercoaster of experiences and emotions for everyone in the …

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Italian duo Peaks! have given us a track by track for the recent EP Futurephobia. The duo comments: “The concept behind Futurephobia is the realisation of how a certain moment can influence life and determine the future. Highs and lows can be pivotal, time is relative, would you bite or be eaten? Do you wanna …

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Out today via Birds Robe is ‘Four’, the new album from Australian math-rock/post-rock band Seims. The brainchild essentially of Simeon Bartholomew, the band have become evermore experimental and formidable over the course of their career, with recent albums ‘3’ and ‘3.1’ being lauded over internet land and beyond. Upon the release of ‘Four’, we spoke …

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Well, it’s been a bit of a year, hasn’t it? Global pandemics, George Floyd, environmental issues, terrorism, dissatisfaction with those in charge, not least in the ongoing (it seems) fallout from the American Presidential election. None of that has stopped artists from all persuasions and genres making some fantastic music over the last 12 months. …

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YouTube. What would we do without it, right now? One of the few ways that remain of accessing ‘live gigs’ for starters – the ones you attended at least, whether they were filmed professionally or shakily on a ‘phone – or your favourite ones that you didn’t attend. A trip down Memory Lane in the …

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WHAT started life as a side project – a chance for Andy Tillison, Parallel or 90 Degrees keyboard player, to kick back and explore some other deep musical avenues in the company of like minds – has really taken on a life of its own this past decade. Beginning with the twin-suite sequence of The …

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We’ve been incredibly excited by experimental metal band Asian Death Crustacean here on Backseat Mafia, with the London quartet bringing elements of Jazz, post-rock and Ambient / Electronic music into the mix, surrounding it with gritty, muscular music that hits you like a punch to the head. Their new album Baikal, out today, has to …

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Over on our Spotify page, alongside all the playlists we’ve received from artists, albums of the year, our monthly playlists, psych playlists, classic DJ sets, not forgotten series and other delights (you should really check it out and follow some of them), we’ve added a new, mammoth playlist – every track currently on Spotify from …

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