Album Review: Barrie – Happy to be Here
Barrie’s single “Tal Uno”, released last year, was for me one of the stand out singles of 2018 (along with Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Boys in the Better Land’). Their follow up…
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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.
Track: Ride – Future Love plus Tour News
The legendary Ride have just released a new single – Future Love – off their forthcoming album ‘This Is Not A Safe Place’ due out on 16 August 2019. And…
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New Track: The Raft – Xanadu plus album news
Xanadu, the new single from Liverpool’s highly talented The Raft is absolute shoegaze gold with a scouse glint that recalls all the pure pop glories of Ian Broudie’s The Lightning…
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New Tracks: Barrie – Clovers/Darjeeling plus album and tour news
Barrie produced, for me, one of the stand out singles of 2018, Tal Uno – a perfect slice of pop heaven from the EP ‘Singles’. They have now announced a…
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New Track: The Double Happiness – There’s No Place Like Nundah
Cloaked with the faded robes of nostalgia, a peon to the glories of an old forgotten Brisbane, the new single from the quite frankly glorious The Double Happiness is a…
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New Track: Fontaines D.C. – Big, Plus Album and tour news
The stupendous Fontaines D.C. are back with a blistering new single, “Big”. It may clock in at a warp speed of 1 minute and forty-five seconds yet it is, no…
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New Track: Greta Stanley – Kick
Last year we reviewed a single from Queensland’s Greta Stanley off her marvelous debut album ‘Fully Grown” and now she’s back with a new gorgeous single, “Kick”. Stanley’s vocals are…
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New Track: Thomas Keating – Today, I’m Staying Home
‘Today, I’m Staying Home’ is a glorious, anthemic paean to cocooning from a prodigious new talent, Thomas Keating. A rippling acoustic bedrock underpins Keatings open heartfelt singing and chorus as…
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New Music: Idle Kyle – Twisted Attention (EP)
The brittle, delicate arpeggiated piano of ‘Grounded’, the first track off Philadelphia’s Idle Kyle‘s EP “Twisted Attention”, serves notice that there is something quite unique ahead. It is a track…
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New Music: Edith Thomas Furey – Sleep Well, My Love (EP)
Dark, brooding, gothic and mysterious. Music to my ears and music indeed from the latest treasure uncovered by the prestigious and productive Valley Heat Records in the form of Edith…
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