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News: What can ordinary be? Living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) feels guilt about what happened to the ‘Strawberries’ as new album is announced with the title track unveiled.
‘Strawberries’, the new single from the iconic The Go-Betweens songwriter Robert Forster, features his trademark insouciance and his witty wry delivery, augmented by his wife Karin Bäumler’s vocals. Pondering the moral and ethical ramifications of greedily consuming the last strawberry in the bowl, Forster’s tone is light and playful, cheeky and jaunty in this little …
Album Review: The Loft – Everything Changes, Everything Stays The Same; Timeless jangle-pop perfection.
Ok. For those that know, you know. For those that don’t – here’s a quick history lesson. The Loft were one of Creation Records’ great nearly-made-it stories, the first of Alan McGee’s bands to break onto TV, top the indie charts, and land major tour invites. Then, in truly dramatic fashion, they imploded mid-song at …
Track: BMX Bandits mine latest indie pop gem with new single, The World Was Round
Whisper it quietly, but over the course of the last three decades or so, BMX Bandits have crafted some of the greatest pop singles of the intervening years. I reckon anyway. Their new single, “The World Was Round,” penned by Andrew Pattie, adds another gem to this illustrious canon. Taken from their latest long player …
Track: Hamburg outfit Mint Mind Release the glorious shoegaze shuffle of Glow
We love Tapete Records here at Backseat Mafia. Don’t even get me started on the injustice that The Elephants weren’t massive. And they’ve another winner on their hands here in the form of Hamburg based indie rock outfit Mind Mind, and their new single Glow. It’s taken from the bands forthcoming third album ‘VG+’, out …
Album Review: The Telescopes focus on a dreamy, gothic sonic landscape in their shimmering and psychedelic new album ‘Of Tomorrow’, with European dates announced
The legendary The Telescopes return to the fray with their new album ‘Of Tomorrow’ – their astonishing fifteenth album and the fifth released through Tapete Records. Meeting somewhere in the dark corners of the universe with the Velvets, Leonard Cohen and JAMC in an absinthe-soaked bacchanalian dive bar, this is a band that emits a …
News: German indie legends Robocop Kraus break 15 year drought with news of an album, new single and tour.
It’s been a very long 15 years since Robocop Kraus have released any new material, and they have now announced the album ‘Smile’, through Tapete Records, and the first taste – the release of single ‘On Repeat’ – bodes well. While often considered to be the German answer to bands like Franz Ferdinand or Talking …
Premiere: BMX Bandits release new video for Long Forgotten Summers
News from camp BMX Bandits is that the legendary Scottish indie band, beloved of Kurt Cobain and so many others before ansince, is that their new album, The Dreaded Light, is out now via Tapete Records (was there ever a label and a ban more suited to eachother?). It’s a first for Duglas and the …
ALBUM REVIEW: The Telescopes – ‘Songs Of Love And Revolution’: sexy, sleazy psych set
No Fender Jazzmasters or Vox Teardrops were likely harmed during the course of this record, but many are reported to have emerged bruised, sweat-slicked and smiling. Dirty, sexy and necessary
SEE: The Telescopes – ‘Strange Waves’: languid, dirty and all the good things
STEPHEN LAWRIE’S The Telescopes are old hands at this beautifully dirty, scuzzy psych-rock game – but don’t think for a second that means they’ve lost an ounce of potency, as illustrated by their forthcoming album Songs Of Love And Revolution, out at the beginning of February. You would be so wrong, so wrong. The band …
MEET: Louis Philippe
On the day London’s favourite adopted cult songwriter releases his excellent new album, Thunderclouds, we chat él, football songs, the state of the nation, Milton Nascimento and more