shoegaze
Album Review: Wild Meadows – Wild Meadows
The debut album from Melbourne’s Wild Meadows is, quite simply put, a promise delivered. Last year we enthusiastically reviewed their debut single ‘Feel the Noise’ and observed it was a ‘classic shoegaze anthem redolent with swirling vocals, waves of sparkling guitar and gob-smacking choruses grander than the Simpson Desert’. The self titled album – available …
Track: Hatchie – Sure (Robyn Guthrie Remix) and tour news
It was way back in June 2017 that our attention was grabbed by Brisbane songwriter Hatchie with her debut single ‘Try’, having just attracted a management deal and on the cusp of a global expansion. Now, only eight months later, Hatchie has been signed by highly respected Heavenly Recordings for UK/Europe and Double Double Whammy/Polyvinyl …
Track: Brooders – Lie
Leeds psych-grunge three piece Brooders have shared the first track from their upcoming 7″ release in the form of ‘Lie’. The bands Adam Bairstow says of the track “Lie has been a work in progress for a long time, it’s a culmination of the stresses and pressures that come with love, loss and paranoia all …
Track: Maff – Hawaii
Chile’s magnificent Maff are back with a new single off their forthcoming EP ‘Melaniña’ due for release in April. Entitled ‘Hawaii’, it is another blistering, hypnotic slice of shoegaze with pounding bass and drums with guitars and vocals that recall the magnificence of The Horrors: Brilliant stuff indeed. ‘Hawaii’ will be released on March 2 …
Track: Maff – Desfile
Chilean shoegazers Maff have released a brilliant new single entitled Desfile off their forthcoming EP ‘Melaniña’ due out in April. Buzzsaw guitars and a distant almost disembodied vocal create a dreamy sea scape that crashes and recedes like waves upon cliffs. An air of mystery is compounded by the Spanish lyrics imbued with a sense …
Track: Sex of Insects – Not this song again
Fromed in Russia in 2016, Sex of Insects- aka Anatoly Ylotana (guitar) Alexandra Bartashevich (vocals) and Roman Korablove (Rhythm). have been racking up listens and fans with their recent releases, which have collectively reached 60 thousand plays on Soundcloud. They’ve just released a new track, Not this song again’ and it mixes up these ethereal …
Album Review: The Orielles – Silver Dollar Moment
Backseat Mafia recently interviewed Halifax band The Orielles following the release of a couple excellent singles in anticipation of their debut album, “Silver Dollar Moment” due out on 16 February 2018. We’ve had a listen to the album and it really is an extraordinary debut. Sweet harmonies over a scuzzy layer of instruments is not …
Track: Big Bliss – Contact / Override
Out today is the new 7″ from Brooklyn post-punks Big Bliss, Contact / Override, on Exit Stencil Recordings. Recorded last Autumn with Jeff Berner at Studio G in Brooklyn while writing their upcoming album, the tracks felt to the band like standalone singles rather than something that fitted in to their vision of the album. …
Say Psych: Album Review: Dead Vibrations – Dead Vibrations
Dead Vibrations burst onto the booming Stockholm music scene in 2015 and have been flying the flag high for Scandinavian shoegaze ever since. Comprised of Christian Jansson (Guitar & Vocals), Elmer Hallsby (Bass), Josefin Ahlqvist Lyzwiski (Drums) and Olov Sjogren (Guitar), their dark and gloomy noise pop channelling a mix of visceral Jesus & the Mary Chain …
EP: Ummagma – LCD
I’m a little late to the party on this one but towards the end of last year, Canadian/Ukrainian due Ummagma released EP “LCD”, consisting of two versions of “LCD” (mixed by Dean Garcia from seminal shoegaze band Curve) and additional tracks “Lama” (one mixed by Robyn Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins) and “Back to You” …