Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: All India Radio emits another bright ray of sunshine with the shimmering atmospheric track ‘El Cielo’

Martin Kennedy’s All India Radio released the magnificent album ‘Afterworld’ earlier this year and it still resonates with a shimmering and haunting aura – read my effusive review here. All…

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EP Review: Oceans washes a dream pop shoegaze fugue over us with the epic ‘Come So Far’

‘Come So Far’ is an immersive and epic debut from Melbourne’s Oceans (the moniker of Thomas Lee): four tracks that shimmer and sparkle with an iron spine and a dreamy…

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Premiere: Damien Binder lights a slow burning fuse with the gloriously transcendent track ‘Everything But’.

There is a delicious expansiveness about Damien Binder‘s work – he is an uniquely antipodean troubadour whose songs sparkle like the bright stars over the great southern land. Originally from…

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Track: Children Collide unveil the smashingly uber cool track ‘Uh Oh’ and announce tour

Melbourne’s Children Collide‘s new single ‘Uh Oh’ is a slamming, dynamic piece of pounding rock’n’roll with its insistent rhythms and cool and louche vocals. All inflected with a psychedelic fugue.…

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Track: Hayley Mary unveils the effervescent and sparkling track ‘The Drip’ ahead of EP release and tour news.

Hayley Mary‘s capacity for writing pulse quickening and powerful rock is on full display in the wry and effervescent track ‘The Drip’, the title track from her forthcoming EP due…

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Premiere: Skybelly’s ethereal ‘The Rhino, The Tiger, The Emerald Dragonfly’ is a silky, sensual dream pop reverie with a message.

We are pleased to premiere the new single ‘The Rhino, The Tiger, The Emerald Dragonfly’ by Melbourne’s Skybelly, the nom de plume of artist Sara Nelson. This is a slinky,…

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Premiere: Brisbane’s loulou’s ‘Depend On Me’ is a scuzzy low-fi shining gem filled with an antipodean garage charm

We are delighted to premiere the new track by Brisbane (or to be precise, Naarm/Meanjin) band loulou entitled ‘Depend On Me’. This is a scuzzy, shambling treasure of a song…

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Track: Melbourne’s Maple Glider releases the fragile and beautiful ‘Baby Tiger’ and announces news of debut album ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’

Melbournian Maple Glider ( the artist Tori Zietsch) has announced the release of her debut album ‘To Enjoy is The Only Thing’ out on 25 June 2021 through Partisan Records…

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Track: Bandicoot have the ‘Worried Blues’: another excessively brilliant single from the entertaining Welsh band.

Bandicoot have an attitude and an impeccable sense of theatre and drama that make their releases utterly cathartic and completely mesmerising. We premiered the video for their last single ‘Fuzzy’…

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Premiere: Jessica unveils the lush and gorgeous video for the haunting track ‘Apparition’

We are very honoured to premiere a new video from Sydney’s Jessica, for the track ‘Apparition’. Last year we reviewed the quite frankly astonishing debut album from her called ‘The…

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