Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: Australia’s Aodhan reveals a dreamy slice of antipodean indie pop with title single ‘Flies In My Room’ from his new EP

We are honoured to premiere today Aodhan‘s delicious new single ‘Flies In My Room’: a gentle reflective track with crisp acoustic guitars and a bed of billowing synths and harmonies.…

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News: Verve Records pay tribute to The Velvet Underground and Nico’s seminal album, with tracks from Fontaine’s D.C., Courtney Barnett, Iggy Pop, Kurt Vile and Sharon Van Etten

The Velvet Underground are of course every indie music fan’s favourite band – the band that launched a thousand musical careers. A new tribute album from Verve Records, ‘I’ll Be…

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See: Damien Binder releases a gorgeous video for the spellbinding track ‘Everything But’

We premiered Damien Binder‘s track ‘Everything But’ way back in May. We said it was a glorious example of Binder’s craft: a shimmering restless piece that travels with a spark…

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Premiere: Versari release chilling, mysterious and enigmatic video for the epic track ‘Brûle’

Versari put on display their cool and arctic nature with the brilliant new video for the track ‘Brûle’, one which we are proud to premiere here on Backseat Mafia today.…

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Track: Melbourne’s Snowy Band release the gorgeously atmospheric track ‘Whatever You Want’ and announce new album ‘Alternative Endings’

The quiet, reflective and reverberated voice of Liam “Snowy” Halliwell glides over the gentle guitars in Snowy Band‘s beautiful new single ‘Whatever You Want’. There is a luminescent glow to…

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Track: The Goa Express take the ‘Overpass’: a frenetic no-holds barred romp, and announce UK tour

‘Overpass’ is the ‘B’ Side to The Goa Express‘ single ‘Second Time’ (reviewed by me here). While the latter was a classic shimmering slice of indie pie, ‘Overpass’ releases the…

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Premiere: Anatomy Class put up a ‘Reflector Shield’ – a powerful, jangling force of sparkling positivity in one track

We are very honoured to premiere ‘Reflector Shield’ – a classical indie pop anthem replete with undulating waves of sparkling guitars, a thundering percussion and passionate vocals burnished with some…

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Premiere: Magnetic Heads release the glorious, shimmering single ‘What You See Is What You Get’ off their forthcoming album ‘Moral Outage’

We are very honoured to premiere the new single ‘What You See Is What You Get’ from Sydney’s brilliant Magnetic Heads: a gloriously rich synth-injected eighties-influenced motorik blast. Singer/songwriter Des…

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Meet: Is this Pop? Colin Moulding (XTC) has a chat about his new single, the old stuff and the secret to writing pop songs

It’s been over 3 years since ex XTC singer/bass player Colin Moulding teamed up with ex-XTC drummer Terry Chambers under the moniker TC&I to record the brilliant EP ‘Great Aspirations’ and the follow up…

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Album Review: An Early Bird’s beautiful album ‘Diviner’ is a sparkling, romantic journey into the imagination

Milano-based troubadour Stefano De Stefano has been keenly admired by Backseat Mafia since our very birth when we lauded his band Pipers back in 2013 and then his solo stuff…

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