Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Fingerless – Get My Money Back

Missed in the pre-Christmas excitement, ‘Get My Money Back’, the new single from Brisbane’s inimitable Fingerless is a swaggering joy. Opening with a dream-like Gregorian chant with a spacey blur,…

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News: Bushfire Relief Concerts – Australia

Australia has been hit with apocalyptic fires this summer and it is great to see the music industry coming together to provide support for the community. One concert entitled Down…

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Feature: 2019 Favourites

The following are lists of my favourite releases of 2019. This is not a definitive list of the best of 2019: I would not be so presumptuous to think I…

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Premiere: Elder – wabi sabi

Backseat Mafia couldn’t be more pleased to premiere the extraordinary single ‘wabi sabi’ from Brisbane’s Elder: a song that is so innovative and exciting and quite mesmerising. It heralds the…

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Album Review: tunnel traffic – Age of Convictions

While tunnel traffic is ostensibly the moniker for multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Adam Hachey, the move to bring long time collaborator, singer Jacky Muñoz, to the fore in the new album,…

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Live Review: Underground Lovers/The Lovetones, The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

There is something special about seeing a band play in their hometown. You just know the audience will be filled with family and friends and there is a special frisson…

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Album Review: Paul Kelly – Songs from the South (Greatest Hits)

Anyone with even a scintilla of interest in the music scene in Australia needs to know of the golden thread that runs through it in the form of Paul Kelly.…

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Album Review: White Lies – Five (Reissue)

Emerging in a crowded field with fellow indie nouveau goth bands like Interpol and Editors, White Lies have been, in my view very underrated over the years. Their 2019 album…

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Track: Fragile Animals – Waiting

One of the best exponents of the new wave of Australian shoegaze/dream pop, Queensland’s Fragile Animals have followed up their much lauded EP ‘Only Shallow’ earlier this year with a…

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