Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: The Aerial Maps (including members of seminal bands Crow, Disneyfist and The Hummingbirds) unveil video for the glorious track ‘We All Need to Know There’s Someone Out There in the Night’ ahead of surprise album release.

We are very honoured to premiere the first video off the surprise new album ‘Intimate Hinterland’ to be announced tomorrow by the Sydney indie supergroup The Aerial Maps and set…

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Album Review : Twofish release the cinematic and transfixing album ‘At Least A Hundred Fingers’: a dynamic sonic landscape that defies genre.

The album ‘At Least A Hundred Fingers’ by duo Twofish is an epic, cinematic musical journey that ebbs and flows with intensity and dynamism. Difficult to slot into any genre,…

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Album Review: Scott von Ryper (The Black Ryder, The Morning After Girls, JAMC) unveils shimmering debut album ‘Dream State Treasure’

Soaked in reverb and regret, ‘Dream State Treasure’, the solo album from Scott von Ryper is a shimmering debut from an Australian artist that has quietly established a remarkable reputation…

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Album Review: Melbourne artist Skybelly releases the stunning debut space opera ‘A Space Tramp Odyssey’: a cornucopia of sonic colours.

Skybelly (the nom de plume of Sara Nelson) has just released her stunning debut album, ‘A Space Tramp Odyssey’: a widely evocative and creative magnus opus which is a deep…

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News: Supergroup Springtime (Drones, Dirty Three, The Necks) announce release of self-titled debut album and video for the thundering track ‘Will To Power’

With Gareth Liddiard (The Drones, Tropical Fuck Storm), Jim White (Xylouris White, Dirty Three, PJ Harvey) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) as members, the term supergroup is without exaggeration for…

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Album Review: The Institutes deliver a magnificent indie pop debut in ‘Colosseum’: an edifice of pure gold.

It’s hard not to resort to hyperbole when you come across a debut like ‘Colosseum’ from Coventry band The Institutes. You cannot help but hear in the DNA of this…

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See: Melbourne dream popsters Grazer unveil bucolic and pastoral video for the sparkling track ‘Reunion’.

Floating like a butterfly over verdant fields, ‘Reunion’, the new single from Melbourne dream pop duo Grazer, is a gloriously ethereal track that sparkles and shimmers like diamonds in the…

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Track: The glam theatricals of Adelaide’s Wolf & Chain return with effervescent new single ‘An Unfortunate Tale of Two Lovers and an Insatiable Taste for Poison’.

At the very heart of rock’n’roll must lurk the innate desire for the smell of the greasepaint and the glare of the floodlights: theatrics must surely form the very DNA…

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Premiere: Brisbane’s Terra Pines unleash the brute force of ‘Downbeat’: a thunderous musical assault leavened by the sweetest of melodies.

Brisbane’s Terra Pines take no prisoners in their brutal aural assault of a track, ‘Downbeat’. This is a thunderous insistent fuzzy rumble that rolls forward with intensity and purpose. And…

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News: The magnificent Bambara announce new EP ‘Love On My Mind’, new dates for US/EU tour and release the dramatic and gothic ‘Mythic Love’

Bambara‘s album ‘Stray’, released before the before the world went mad early last year was described by me as being an epic release – deeply satisfying, cathartic to audiences who…

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