australia
Track: Self Defense Family – Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your Floor
Following ‘Leeds’, which dropped last month, and ‘Long Island’, which they released earlier this month, prolific Cohoes, New York-based post-punk collective Self Defense Family have unveiled ‘Australia’, the latest in a series of 7″ singles the band have named after their recording locations. The single’s A-side is titled ‘Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your …
Video: Coalfalls – Coalfalls
We were highly impressed by Coalfalls‘s double instrumental single ‘Coalfalls/Stephenson Street’ recently and the band has doubled down with the release of a mesmerising video for the track Coalfalls. Recorded, produced and edited by Greg Harmat at Tangible Media in Ipswich, this is a beautifully shot music video which perfectly matches the dreamy instrumental and …
Track: Dip Road Dogs – Lazy
Country Victoria has produced the geographically dispersed but very much together Dip Road Dogs with their new single ‘Lazy’. ‘Lazy’ has a slow burning tone with sweeping strings and crisp jangly guitars that immediately recalls The National or Tindersticks with an inherent Australian laconic delivery. A reflective, self-deprecating sense of humour in the lyrics augments …
Live: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise, Altar, Hobart 14 March 2019
EWAH and the Vision of Paradise were launching their single ‘Play Hard’ (see my review and interview here) in their home town, seemingly on the cusp of the apocalypse, and it was a great performance from a band that is incredibly mature and poised. While undoubtedly the enigmatic EWAH, as the principle songwriter, guitarist and …
Interview: Matthew J Tow from The Lovetones plus album review Myriad
After a ten year hiatus, The Lovetones are back with their new album ‘Myriad’, and it’s like they never left. Singer, guitarist and songwriter Matthew J Tow has got the band together again and the signature 12 string sparkle and melodic mastery are to the fore. Completely steeped in a shimmering cloak of chiming guitars …
Track: Requin – ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’
Brisbane has always had a reputation for producing quirky ground-breaking indie music – think of The Go-Betweens and The Saints for starters or contemporaries like The Goon Sax and Elder. Requin, newly signed to 4000 Records (a mark of quality right there) is such a band. Their new single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ is …
Premiere: Alyrah – Twin Flame Portal EP plus single The Empress
Backseat Mafia is very proud to premiere the single ‘The Empress’ from Australian artist Alyrah, as well as her forthcoming EP ‘Twin Flame Portal’, due out on 28 February 2020. Hailing from Sydney, Alyrah is an indie-electronic artist and producer with, based on this release, an enormous amount of talent and a very distinct and …
Track: A.Swayze and the Ghosts – Mess of Me plus tour news
A. Swayze and the Ghosts are undeniably one of Tasmanian’s finest exports (along with southern gothicism, unfiltered Gin and the Dark Mofo Festival). Building up quite a reputation across Australia, they have just released a fantastic new single and announced a tour of the US – treading the well worn path of Australian bands to …
News: Bushfire Relief Concerts – Australia
Australia has been hit with apocalyptic fires this summer and it is great to see the music industry coming together to provide support for the community. One concert entitled Down to Earth will to raise precious funds for for immediate fire relief via Red Cross and WIRES, as well as funding organisations that focus on …
Track: Mallrat – Driving Music EP
Brisbane and Queensland in general is undeniably a hotbed of talent, and one of the most preeminent examples of this is the pure pop musings of Grace Shaw, under the guise of Mallrat. Mallrat’s new EP, ‘Drive’ is an evolution of the style and creativity of this phenomenal artist. Back in February 2018, we reviewed …