the marrickville sound
EP: Sydney’s A Place In The Sky unveils the melodic pop jangle brilliance of ‘Isolation’.
‘Isolation’, from Sydney band ‘A Place In The Sky’ is a pulse-quickening and heady collection of jingle jangle pop classics, with vaulting choruses and harmonies that sparkle and shine. There is a fundamental pop sensibility that winds its way through the EP: a golden thread of sparkling guitars and indelible melodies. Opening track ‘Judge and …
See: Sydney’s visceral Infinity Broke unveil video for the single ‘From The Belly of the Whale’ from last year’s magnificent album ‘Your Dream, My Jail’
With 2021 disappearing fast in the rear view mirror, its presence in our memory and impact on our lives seems so ephemeral. And yet for all the misery, there was the permanency of music, bursting forth like shoots of greenery in a sea of ash. Sydney’s Infinity Broke‘s album ‘Your Dream Our Jail’ was one …
Premiere: Mako Bron’s ‘cloudbites’ EP is an effervescent and glorious pop masterpiece, with a dark heart and uplifting melodies.
Mako Bron is the brainchild of one musician/producer Chris Brookman, and the single ‘Straight Down’ went to straight up to my top five Australian/New Zealand single releases for 2021. We at Backseat Mafia are therefore absolutely thrilled to be asked to premiere Mako Bron’s new EP, ‘cloudbites’, set for release on 3 January 2022. Brookman …
Album Review: End Scene’s debut album ‘All My Ghosts’ is a masterpiece that jangles with a dark pop intent and an indelible shimmer.
There is a recognisable antipodean jingle jangle thrum in Sydney band End Scene‘s debut album ‘All My Ghosts’. Essentially, End Scene is James Jennings and Tom Dufficy and together they have produced an indie pop delight with instrumentation that chimes and rings, given a celestial reach by an acerbic and droll undercurrent in the vocals and …
Track: Blackbirds FC unveil the sparkling and evocative track ‘Transport Planes’: a dreamy elision of memory and reality.
With an expansive poetic expression, the new track from Blackbirds FC rings with clarity and yearning as it is carried by luminescent harmonies and jangling guitars. Blackbirds FC have a deeply ingrained antipodean genetic make-up that stretches from over the ditch with The Chills and The Bats to The Go-Betweens and all that glorious jangle …
Track: Sydney’s End Scene unveil the jangling melodic single ‘Bittersweet Spell’ ahead of release of their new album ‘All My Ghosts’ on 10 December.
There is a recognisable antipodean jingle jangle thrum in Sydney band End Scene‘s reflective track ‘Bittersweet Spell’. With the hallmark features of a beautiful melody, sparkling instrumentation and intelligent, yearning lyrics, this is a classic inner city Sydney sound – what I’ve labelled the Marrickville Sound – with anthemic bounce and an ethereal aura. The …
Premiere: Lewis Goldmark exclusively unveils his new track, the celestial and shimmering ‘Wild Night’.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Wild Night’ from Blue Mountains resident Lewis Goldmark, the second single from his forthcoming debut album due early in 2022 via Broken Stone Records/Remote Control Records. Lewis Goldmark is the project of Liam Judson from Belles Will Ring (and Magnetic Heads) and producer of many eminent bands, some of whom have graced …
Album Review: Golden Fang release the elegantly razor-sharp album ‘The Man With Telltale Scars’, a profound and moving magnum opus with bite.
Golden Fang for the most part eschew traditional song structures. Not for them the old verse/chorus/verse/chorus/middle eight break/chorus pattern: each of their tracks feel more like special moments in time as singer/guitarist Carl Redfern emotes feelings and melodies that are scattered over raw, unadorned, visceral guitar riffs that ebb and flow, recede and engulf in …
Track: Paul Berwick’s Magnetic Quartet unveil the infectious and swaggering ‘Step Into The Light’ and announce launch gig.
Paul Berwick played in the iconic Sydney indie band Happy Hate Me Nots back in the last century and we are very pleased to reveal new material under the name Paul Berwick’s Magnetic Quartet, lassoing in some of Sydney’s finest musicians, drummer Nick Kennedy (Imperial Broads, Knievel, The Electorate etc), Matt Galvin and Jim Dickson …
Premiere: The enigmatic Jo Meares unveils his spectacularly evocative new track ‘Just Dreams’ and announces launch gig.
Jo Meares‘s music has an unerring ability capture a celestial sense of vast open spaces while remaining intimate and personal. His deep tenor and crystalline instrumentation is again a feature of his new track ‘Just Dreams’ which we are honoured to premiere today ahead of its release on Thursday, 11 November 2021. Razor sharp percussion …