Sunshine Coast
Premiere: Sunshine Coast’s Charley BT debuts with the sparkling sounds of ‘Lemon’.
It’s a great pleasure for us to premiere the stunning debut single from Sunshine Coast’s surfer and skater Charley BT (the nom de plume of Charley Beattie). ‘Lemon’ is a shimmering track that jangles and sparkles under Charlie BT’s velvet vocals, filled with an aching intensity. There is no doubt there are discernable elements of …
Track: Just who is ‘Young Dumb Immature’? Betty Taylor have the answer in their sparkling new single, ahead of tours.
Perennial favourites here at Backseat Mafia, the inimitable Sunshine Coast band Betty Taylor have hit the soundwaves with their glorious new single ‘Young Dumb Immature’. Shimmering like hot sunshine on black bitumen and sparkling like the ocean, the track features soaring choruses and a driving beat that quickens the pulse. Reflecting on the inspiration behind ‘Young …
Track: Betty Taylor just ‘Can’t Get Enough’ – another dreamy ray of filtered sunlight from the Sunshine Coast as an EP is on the horizons
Betty Taylor (the band) are creators of the most radiant missives of sunshine from the Sunshine Coast – bright pop that is filtered by a thread of melancholy and suffuse with melody. Their new single ‘Can’t Get Enough’ is beamed into the universe with this bittersweet concoction that so epitomises their dream pop-infused songwriting. The …
Track: Betty Taylor says ‘Fuck You’ in their own inimitable style with a sparklingly defiant pop anthem.
Betty Taylor is no single person: it’s a gale force wind blowing from the Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland consisting of four women who craft a delicious brand of pure pop with a steely spine and an infectious melody. As the title would suggest, ‘Fuck You’ is an exclamation of powerful resilience delivered in a …
Track: Tay Oskee says ‘Let The Fire Burn’: a smooth and delicate indie folk anthem released ahead of album and tour news.
‘Let The Fire Burn’ from Sunshine Coast’s Tay Oskee is a delightful indie folk anthem that exudes a sunshine-bleached summer radiance with a delicate melody filled filigree. The whistling refrain adds to the sense of a carefree bucolic world existing in a dappled frame of light. The song reflects the transience of life, promoting the …
Track: Betty Taylor are ‘Stallin”- a bright and breezy journey into the pop hinterland – as they announce signing to new label Hello Gardener and launch date.
From the sunshine capital of Australia, Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Betty Taylor is no single entity but rather the fusion of duo Sophie Patrick and Kayla Smart (AKA Dorah Jacson). The collaboration has resulted in a bright and breezy jangling gem with a confusion of quotation marks, ‘Stallin”. Mountainous choruses and scything sparkling guitars collude to …
Premiere: Darcy Kate exclusively unveils her exquisite slow burning and yearning album ‘Wanderer’ and announced launch gig.
We are very pleased to provide an exclusive early listen to the new album ‘Wanderer’ from Queensland’s Darcy Kate. With a voice of smoky velvet and a slow burning sparkle to the sound, Kate is a prodigious talent: her songwriting is melodic and tinted with a touch of melancholia and her voice glides and floats …
Premiere: Sunshine Coast’s Dr Mann unveil psychedelic video for ‘Ciggies’: a smoky, hazy joyful fugue.
We are very pleased to premiere the video for that paean to desire and yearning, ‘Cigges’, from Sunshine Coast’s Dr Mann. We said of the single that it is a smooth and enticing slice of trippy, psychedelic indie pop blended with a hint of Americana that is imbued with a laid back and dreamy unfiltered …
Track: Dr Mann really have an urge for ‘Ciggies’ in a single that oozes with yearning and desire.
I’m not sure what Dr Mann‘s health and safety credentials are, but in their latest paean to yearning and desire, ‘Ciggies’, they manage to engender the unhealthiest of cravings in just under three minutes. As anyone who has been enslaved to addiction (particularly of the tobacco kind), this sonic pill captures the feelings of abject, …
Track: Laura Mac unveil a blinding ray of high-stepping sunshine with new track ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’, and announce debut gigs.
Laura Mac‘s new single ‘Don’t Know What I’m Thinking’ is a effervescent blast of sonic goodness, with a hyper kinetic disco shuffle in a paean to bacchanalian excess. This Sunshine Coast band certainly knows how to bottle the sun’s rays and spray serotonin over the most light-deprived individual. The sound is all blistering pop and …