Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

News: P.J Harvey announces reissue of classic album ‘To Bring You My Love’

The iconic P.J. Harvey has announced the reissue of her brilliant third album ‘To Bring You My Love’ on vinyl on 11 September 2020. Produced by PJ Harvey with Flood…

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Track: Astral Swans – Bird Songs

Inspired by some sort of wildlife-induced paranoia in an Amsterdam park, Astral Swans have released a fabulous piece of whimsy entitled ‘Bird Songs’. There is a sweet doleful sound to…

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Track: San Cisco – Messages plus album news

Western Australia’s eternally stylistic San Cisco have just released another highly effervescent track – ‘Messages’ – and announced details of a new album entitled ‘Between You and Me’ due out…

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Track: The Goa Express – Be My Friend

‘Be My Friend’, the new single from The Goa Express, emerges from the starting gates with such an abandoned joie de vivre that it’s exhilarating and heady. It’s a shouty,…

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Track: Future Islands – For Sure

Future Islands first gained world attention for their stunningly intense and committed performance of the single ‘Seasons (Waiting on You)’ on the Letterman Show way back in 2014. This somewhat…

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Track: Vast Asteroid – Champagne Ambassadors

There has been an increasing number of references to the genre of spacegaze – a highly volatile concoction of shoegaze, psychedelia and dream pop. Vast Asteroid so describe themselves, and…

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See: The Institutes release video for ‘Heal In Time’

If it wasn’t enough that The Institutes released one of the singles of the year so far – a jingle jangly hyper-delight of of a tune – they have added…

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Album Review: DMA’s – The Glow plus tour news

DMA’s have forged their own unique and exhilarating path ever since they first came to the world’s attention with their single ‘Delete’. I remember when they appeared, apparently out of…

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Track: Doves – Prisoners plus album news

Last month Backseat Mafia welcomed back the ever brilliant Doves upon the release of their first material in eleven years – the single ‘Carousels’. And to add fuel to the…

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Premiere: We Are Waves – SELVA

Backseat Mafia is honoured to premiere the new video from Italian post-punk/synthwave band We Are Waves for their blistering new track ‘SELVA’. Brewed and percolated in lockdown conditions, the wave…

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