Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Children Collide’s ‘Time Itself’ is a cathartic, thundering, heavy metal psychedelic trip, plus tour details announced.

Melbourne’s Children Collide have been a vital beating heart of the Australian indie music scene, and after a nine year break are back with swagger and style with their new…

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Album Review: Holy Holy say ‘Hello My Beautiful World’ with an elegant and sparkling collection of jewels, plus tour news.

It is an unusual situation to find myself lauding an album that just debuted at number 4 on the Australian music charts in the company of what could be loosely…

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EP: Bangalore’s dream pop exponents Us and I release their shimmering debut EP ‘Loveless’

Having enticed us with the single ‘Fragile’ last month, Bangalore dream pop duo Us and I have just dropped their debut EP ‘Loveless’, four dollops of exquisite dream pop delights.…

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EP: Dull Reality’s EP ‘Daffodil’ is a thrillingly and imaginative sonic adventure.

Ben Shields records under the name Dull Reality and, although it’s an easy observation to make, his music is anything but. Shields works almost purely in the realms of electronic…

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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…

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Track: Sydney’s Imperial Broads look for ‘Another Planet’ and announce news of album ‘Counterpart’

The new single from Sydney band Imperial Broads, ‘Another Planet’ sees a slight divergence from their earlier single ‘Control’ (reviewed by me here) into a more reflective two-speed sixties-infused dream…

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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…

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Track: nipaluna/Hobart based Ben Salter releases a magnificent, evocative single ‘bereavement’ in advance of new album announced for September.

Book-ended with the rolling ocean waves on a beach, and recorded in nipaluna/Hobart’s magnificent Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), the single ‘bereavement’ by musical polymath Ben Salter encapsulates…

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Premiere: Sydney’s Ona Mota get down and boogie with an effervescent style in their new single ‘Dance With U’.

We are very pleased to provide an exclusive listen to the funky new dance single from Sydney’s Ona Mota. This is a song so packed full of an irresistible funky…

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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…

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