Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Music

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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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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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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