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Track: Reb Fountain unveils the beautiful, reflective track ‘Foxbright’ ahead of the release of her album ‘IRIS’
Building up to the release of her album ‘IRIS’ through Flying Nun Records on 1 October 2021, Reb Fountain has just released the achingly beautiful track ‘Foxbright’, the fourth single from the album. This is a more reflective and restrained Fountain, but just as powerful and mesmerising. ‘Foxbright’ has a delicate, fragility and celestial melodies …
Premiere: North Arm unveils their gorgeous new single ‘Bring The Daylight’ and announce new album
Sydney artist Roderick Smith works under the project North Arm and we are honoured here at Backseat Mafia to premiere his new single and video ‘Bring The Daylight’. Soft as a Sydney breeze skipping across the waters of Sydney Harbour, and with a dappled sunshine light, this is an absolutely gorgeous, reflective track bursting with …
News: Heligoland’s Karen Vogt announces new collaboration with ambient experimental composer Pepo Galán and unveils the glorious single ‘The Dark Opens the Way’
Australian born, Paris-based artist Karen Vogt has blessed these pages in the past with her band, the magnificent Heligoland (see our interview and review of their last album ‘This Quiet Fire’ here). She has now announced a new collaboration with ambient experimental composer Pepo Galán which will see an album entitled ‘The Sweet Wait’ released November …
News: Indie legend Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta) announces solo album and unveils a scintillating and evocative video for opening track ‘The Past Is Our Plaything’.
There is no doubting the legendary status of Dean Wareham, whose band Galaxie 500 in the late eighties defined a gentle low-fi poetic brilliance and melodic genius that influenced and enhanced the shoegaze/dream pop genre. After Galaxie 500 burned ever so brightly between 1987 and 1991, releasing three landmark albums in the process, Wareham formed …
Track: New Zealand’s Mild Orange release the gorgeous, ethereal single ‘This Kinda Day’
Floating over dappling guitars that pluck and ripple underneath, the soft reflective vocals in ‘This Kinda Day’, the new single from Aotearoa/New Zealand dream pop maestros, Mild Orange, are immersive and melancholy, filled with a deep yearning. ‘This Kinda Day’ shimmers like a mirage: ethereal, enigmatic, immersive and full of hope. Psychedelia and dream pop …
Track: Brisbane-based musician Ash Lune’s shimmering ‘Panic at the Party’ is a mesmerising delight.
With dappling guitars and sweeping, weeping strings, the new track from Mumbai-born, Brisbane-based artist Ash Lune is a dreamy, euphoric delight. Lune’s voice has an immersive, ethereal timbre that literally floats above the music, filled with longing, melancholy and melody. Lune has a wry observant style that captures the awkwardness of social interactions and the …
See: Darren Cross creates a panoply of images for the track ‘Are USS Are?’, from his album ‘DISTORDER’
Last month we reviewed the superb album ‘DISTORDER’ from Sydney’s multi-talented songwriter, producer and videographer Darren Cross, calling it a brilliant expression of our times: discordant, unsettling and at times bleak, but delivered with a swagger and a panache. Cross has assembled an engrossing video for one of the tracks – ‘Are USS Are?’ – …
Premiere: From the mystical Blue Mountains, T. Wilds unveils the most gorgeous and evocative video for the glorious track ‘Curious Moon’.
Due for release this Friday, 27 August, ‘Curious Moon’, the new single from Blue Mountains artist T. Wilds (aka Tania Wilds, the nom-de-plume of Tania Bowers) is a mesmerising ethereal track that seems to float on air, with Bowers’s voice an enchanting softly billowing cloud infused with an air of longing and melancholy. We are …
Track: Yolŋu surf rock band King Stingray unveil the effervescent and incandescent track ‘Milkumana’
I saw King Stingray play live at the recent Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart (see my review here) without ever having heard of them before, and was instantly enraptured. One of the most gloriously joyous gigs I’ve ever seen, and those familiar with me and my writing will know I’m generally inclined towards the more …
Californians Foxx Bodies trail new album with raucous lead single ‘Bad Kid’
From the press photo above, it looks like Los Angeles quartet Foxx Bodies are waiting for something important, and that’s probably the release of their forthcoming second album, which has been done since pre-pandemic times. They’ve got a little bit more waiting to do, but it’s got a title, release date and lead single in …