Track: Tunnel Traffic – Another Story
The low-fi musings of Adam Hachey have been sorely missed and it’s fantastic to see another creative flourish from him under the moniker Tunnel Traffic. Single ‘Another Story’ heralds a…
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Arun Kendall
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Writer/ Senior Editor for Backseat Mafia (UK) and Backseat Downunder (Australia and New Zealand). Singer/guitarist/songwriter with Australian band The Hadron Colliders.
Album Review: Youth Group – Australian Halloween
Originating from the inner west of Sydney, Youth Group achieved a modicum of global attention for their exquisite cover of Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’, a song so steeped in rosy-tinted nostalgia…
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News: Mallrat embarks on European tour
Brisbane’s fabulous Mallrat has just finished her US tour with an incandescent performance of her song ‘Charlie‘ off her EP ‘Driving Music’ on the Late, Late Show with James Corden.…
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Track: Flogging a Dead One Horse Town – Flogging a Dead One Horse Town (EP)
I’ll be upfront: Flogging a Dead One Horse Town (FADOHT) are not the dreamy melodic popsters that often typify the kind of band I review. This eponymous EP is muscular,…
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Track: Tan Cologne – Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico
Probably influenced by a recent revisit to the world of TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, my image of New Mexico is a bright, cloudless, surreal landscape of magic, bleached bones and…
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Album Review: Corridor – Junior
Corridor have the unique distinction of being legendary label Subpop‘s first francophone signing. Hailing from Montreal, their newly released album ‘Junior’ is utterly endearing and highly distinct. Guitar driven and…
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Track: rincs – Locked In
rincs are LA duo Rebecca Ramirez and Bjorn Winberg and their new single ‘Locked In’ is a gorgeously unassuming delight. Ramirez’s voice is hauntingly melancholic and expressive, the instrumentation unadorned…
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Track: Didirri – Blue Mood Rising
Didirri is at the forefront of a whole bunch of preciously talented youngsters producing some incredible guitar-based music across Australia (see also Hatchie and Chakra Efendi, recently reviewed by Backseat…
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Track: Chakra Efendi – Morphine/Body by the Water
Chakra Efendi is a rare and unique talent: a product of the talent factory that is Queensland and with a low-fi resonance that is haunting and melancholic. Efendi (uses they/them/their…
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Track: Maff – Swamp
Chilean superstars of goth, Maff, are back at last with another fantastic single, ‘Swamp’. This follows on from the release of their EP ‘Melanina’ last year described by us as…
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