shoegaze
Track: The enigmatic and über cool Horsegirl release another brilliant single ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ and announce more shows ahead of sell out dates in Europe.
Horsegirl are cooler than anyone on the planet at this moment in time and their slew of singles, thus far released, place this statement in bold and highlighted. We’ve already salivated over the louch fuzz of ‘World of Pots and Pans’ and ‘Anti-glory’. Now, in anticipation of their debut album ‘Versions of Modern Performance’ (out …
Live Review: Softcult, The Key Club, Leeds – 19.05.22
If you like your alternative indie with a serious helping of social comment and conscience, you could have done much worse than getting to Leeds on Thursday night to see Canadian twins Softcult as they wrapped their first headline UK tour. Having formed in Kitchener, Ontario in 2020, Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn have spent the …
News: Hatchie to tour Europe/UK this year following ‘Giving the World Away’ release
Brisbane’s Hatchie released her stunning new album Giving The World Away earlier this month via Secretly Canadian, and will follow up with a European tour (set to also take in three UK shows). ‘Giving The World Away’ marks a new chapter in which Hatchie infuses her gleaming dream-pop with a deeper, more honest portrayal of …
Live REVIEW: Spiritualized / Alan Wilkinson – 3Olympia, Dublin 07,05,2022
Opening the show was Alan Wilkinson and folks must have checked the venues website for stage times as there’s not many in and those that are, are looking very bewildered as to what is happening as Alan is centre stage and playing the saxophone. Alan has been a leading figure in the British Improvised Music …
Track: Old Moon unveils the epic and cinematic shoegaze single ‘Soma’ ahead of album ‘Cities of the Plain’ release.
Old Moon is the nom de plume of Lyme, New Hampshire resident Tom Weir and his new single ‘Soma’ is an epic, cinematic slice of shoegaze pie. Scything walls of guitars feature as a thrilling, excoriating and fuzzy backdrop to Weir’s dissociated, melodic vocals that soar across the sonic attack. This has the antithetical mix …
Album Review: Screamfeeder are back with ‘Five Rooms’ – a pulsating collection of harmony laden fuzz pop.
Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have just released their new album ‘Five Rooms’: a sparkling return to the fray. At the heart of Screamfeeder’s music is pure melody: layered harmonies that are coated over a …
Premiere: Syrup Go On are now SGO, but the purity of their dream pop missives remains better than ever with their shimmering, blissful new single ‘Bookcase’.
We are very honoured to premiere the new single ‘Bookcase’ from Meanjin/Brisbane’s dreamy dream pop superstars, SGO (through 4000 Records). SGO are the artists formerly known as Syrup Go On who we have lauded over the years for their gorgeous, breathtakingly beautiful music, and the new track shows that while the label on the outside …
Premiere: We get a sneaky early listen to Nik Brinkman’s ‘Unplugged’ EP – three magnificently raw gems from last year’s epic ‘Secret Stairs’ album.
Last year’s ‘Secret Stairs’ album from New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman was a highlight of the year – in our 9.1/10 review we said it was a stunning debut: a collection of sparkling jewels that glitter with a melancholic sheen, while featuring glorious pop vignettes delivering melody and an ethereal grace. We are very honoured to …
Premiere: NYC’s London Plane exclusively unveil the epic and anthemic title track to their forthcoming album ‘Bright Black’.
NYC’s London Plane have exclusively unveiled to Backseat Mafia the scaling, anthemic title track to their forthcoming album ‘Bight Black’, out through Declared Goods on 17 June 2022. The track, available on Wednesday, 20 April 2022, is an exciting post-punk, new wave influenced slice of gothic-tinged pie, replete with scything, mountainous guitars and a thunderous, …
News: LA outfit Launder announces debut album and releases two sparkling dreamy shoegaze singles, ‘Unwound’ and ‘Chipper’, co-written with DIIV members.
Dripping with incandescent reverb, walls of scything guitars and layers of glorious harmonies, Launder has just released dynamic double singles ‘Unwound’ and ‘Chipper’ ahead of the release of debut album ‘Happening’ out on 15 July 2022 through Ghostly International (Hana Vu, Gold Panda, Tycho). Launder is essentially the work of John Cudlip, with collaborations on …