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Track: ‘No One’s Watching Over’ – Gold Coast’s Chavez Cartel return with a shimmering cinematic track ahead of further overseas adventures
Backseat Mafia has been following the rapidly ascending career of Gold Coast’s Chavez Cartel with great interest since we premiered their single ‘Dead Weekend’ at the beginning of the year, reviewed their EP ‘Man’s Best Friend’ released through the prestigious UK label End of the Trail Records and then featured them during their recent UK …
EP Review: Chavez Cartel’s ‘Man’s Best Friend’ EP is a blistering sonic tsunami that will deliver a noise abatement order from your neighbours if administered properly.
The über cool Chavez Cartel have unleashed the filth and the fury of their new EP ‘Man’s Best Friend’ through UK’s prestigious End Of The Trail Records with a sneer and an insouciant indolence that radiates so much cool it would give you frostbite. This is a brilliant serving of gritty, posturing rock’n’roll that will seduce you and …
Premiere: Burning Jacob’s Ladder’s new single ‘Fickle Bones’ is a brooding, haunting epic delight.
Working under the nom de plume Burning Jacob’s Ladder, Gold Coast multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jake T Johnson is about to release his new single ‘Fickle Bones’, and we are very honoured to give you an early listen. With a crystalline edge and a haunting, atmospheric instrumentation, ‘Fickle Bones’ has the space and air of something …
Track: Gold Coast’s Radolescent provide a much needed jolt to the system with ‘Tough’ and provide us with a list of their influences and tour dates.
Radolescent‘s ‘Tough’ is a glorious jangle fest with a rock hard spine and anthemic rumble replete with a self-deprecatory glint in the eye. It’s as big and expansive as the beautifully shot video accompanying the track filmed somewhere in a rural and pastoral heaven filled with sunshine and giant agricultural machinery. The band says of …
Premiere: The Gold Coast’s Pure Milk serve refreshing ‘Dreams on a Platter’: a charming low-fi gem.
Queensland’s strength in indie fare continues apace with the release of the new single by Gold Coast outfit Pure Milk. We are pleased to premiere their new video for the track ‘Dreams on a Platter’. Taking a leaf from contemporaries The Goon Sax and the long line of bands coming from the region over the …
Track: Women’s Day every day – Clovo brings feminist dark electro pop on debut single ‘Girls’
We still can’t get enough of this track, recently released by new Australian outfit clovo, the project creating seductively dark, alt-pop sounds a la Mia Rodriguez, Billie Eilish and Grimes. Clovo (aka Gold Coast’s Chloe Magee) has debuted her single Girls, a track written on International Women’s Day this year, as an anthem for all …
Track: Chloe Styler releases the yearning, effervescent pop track ‘Consider Me Gone’
‘Consider Me Gone’, the new track from Gold Coast musician Chloe Styler, is a gorgeously haunting pop classic with a driving, insistent undercurrent and a vaulting and celestial chorus. Styler says of the track: It’s the perfect blend of every influence of mine, from early 2000s punk pop to 80s pop to a more contemporary …
Track: Burning Jacobs Ladder lets off sparks with the prowling track ‘Danger In Me’
Hailing from the sparkling Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, Burning Jacobs Ladder is a project by multi-instrumentalist songwriter Jake T Johnson, and his new single ‘Danger in Me’ is a rocket-fueled burner that seethes and prowls with swagger and attitude. Barley restrained feedback and a hint of malevolence underpin this track, Johnson’s voice, seeped in …
Track: Gold Coast’s dream pop exponents syrup go on engulf us in a dreamy reverie with the sparkling ‘Lavender Sky’
It’s been nearly two years since we reviewed the delightful album ‘Last Light’ from Brisbane’s dream pop giants syrup go on. They have returned after a year of songwriting, development and, I presume, avoiding the maelstrom of COVID with a new single: the luminescent and sparkling track ‘Lavender Sky’. Evoking images of pastoral, bucolic countrysides …
Track: We Are Iso produce a catchy dance floor filler ‘Love n’ Trust’ out of the pains of isolation.
Sometimes good things can come from bad, and the plethora of good music being born from the thralls of isolation is an example. The unlikely combination of vocalist Straalen Mccullem (apparently the youngest ever signing to Sony music at the age of nine) and DJ Jessy Mulholland, trapped in some pandemic nightmare has given rise …