Album Review: lutruwita’s Christopher Coleman returns solo with ‘Soft Knee Recordings’, a shimmering and deeply personal paean to life.
It seems like a lifetime ago that Christopher Coleman and The Great Escape released the magnificent ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ in February 2022 (reviewed here), which rose to the top of the pile in my favourite antipodean albums of 2022. In the intervening time, Christopher Coleman retreated to a shed in nipaluna/Hobart and wrote and …
Track: Naarm/Melbourne shoegazers Keaper dazzle with the brilliance of ‘Alone’ on news of the release of their debut album ‘Waking Dream’ and self-curated music festival.
With a wash of guitars and a dreamy delivery, ‘Alone’, the new single from Naarm/Melbourne outfit Keaper, is a shimmering glowing track that provides evidence of this band’s songwriting prowess. The track is off their debut album ‘Waking Dream’ scheduled for 8 March. Singer Amaya says of the song: It’s about daring to be different …
Track: Aotearoa’s Lilly Carron is ‘Wild For Change’ – an ethereal and dreamy prelude to a new EP on the way.
We are inordinately proud to review the shimmering new track ‘Wild For Change’ from New Zealand artist Lilly Carron, whose voice has a diaphanous delicacy, ethereal and filled with a yearning passion. The track has a Lynchian air about it with its scything reverbed guitar riffs and the almost western Sergio Leone blush augmented by …
Track: Great Australian Bank provide a solid investment with their searing new single ‘In Your Eyes’, and live dates.
Great Australian Bank live up to the solid foundations promised by their name with a thumping great single ‘In Your Eyes’. The sound has a distinctly antipodean feel to it, born from the sticky carpeted pubs of the endless suburbs filed with passion and energy. A guitar attack that recalls The Church is thrown into …
Premiere: Join Big League on the ‘Tea and Sandwich Committee’ for an eviscerating slice of glorious indie fare that tears through you like a tornado as new album is heralded.
Perennial favourites here at the Antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, Big League are about to release a new single with the intriguing title of ‘Tea and Sandwich Committee’, and we are ever so pleased to be able to bring you a sneak early listen before its release tomorrow (Friday, 2 February 2024). Of course Big …
Track: Melbourne’s glittering Phoebe Go sings of ‘7 Up’ in a glorious dream pop track, ahead of US tour and debut album.
There is a transfixing and immersive flow to the new single ‘7 Up’ from Phoebe Go (the solo project of Phoebe Lou) which projects it forward with a high stepping canter, emitting a brilliant ray of sunshine. Lou’s vocals are silken and melancholy, the lyrics personal and yearning and the instrumentation shimmering with a delicate …
News: The Church launch 2024 with live shows in NSW and Queensland
On the back of announcing a show in Tamworth as part of NSW’s Great Southern Nights series of live events, perennial Backseat Mafia favourites The Church have announced they will also be performing at The Triffid in Brisbane on Thursday, 7 March 2024. This follows an incredible year in 2023 after touring extensively across Australia …