Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live: Dark Mofo Festival 2018 – Tanya Tagaq, Soundtrack to Nanook of the North

The extraordinary fare served up in Hobart’s annual Dark Mofo Festival continues to astound and delight. Set in the dark mid-winter Hobart, the southernmost point in Australia, the Festival must…

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Track: Everything by Electricity – Place to Call My Own

The gorgeous, thick-layered textures of Everything by Electricity‘s new single ‘Place To Call My Own’ is synth pop at its most alluring: a steady pulse, a superglue-melody and an addictive,…

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Track: A. Wesley Chung – Restless

A. Wesley Chung hails from California but has made his home in Glasgow. He has just released his debut album, ‘Neon Coast’ as a solo artist on 18th May via…

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Track: The Essex Green – Sloan Ranger/The 701 plus album and touring news

Formed in the late nineties, The Essex Green became part of the legendary Elephant 6 Collective that included bands such as the Apples in Stereo, the Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral…

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Track: A Shoreline Dream – Waitout plus EP news

A Shoreline Dream epitomise shoegaze dream pop at it’s most vibrant. Their new single ‘Waitout’ mixes a Ride-like vocal layers over an instrumentation that recalls The Stone Roses – rolling…

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Track: BATZ – Save Us

With wafts of the heady aroma of eighties greats like Martha and the Muffins or The Passions or even early Duran Duran, the new single from Melbourne’s BATZ is a…

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Album Review: Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You really Feel

Courtney Barnett is swiftly developing global adulation for her low-fi, heartfelt vignettes of life which capture with great honesty her trials and tribulations and insecurities. Like Jonathan Richman, there is…

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Track: Barrie – Tal Uno

There is something about melancholic dream pop that seduces me. It is the bittersweet nature of the music – layers of beautiful bright often upbeat sounds sometimes contrasting and at…

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Track: Luvia – For You

With an extraordinary voice that ranges across styles from Elizabeth Fraser from The Cocteau Twins to Mazzy Star vocalist Hope Sandoval, Brighton’s Luvia‘s new track ‘For You’ is a gorgeous,…

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Live: Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds – Brisbane Hotel, Hobart 13/05/2018

The carpets at the iconic Brisbane Hotel in, confusingly, Hobart, Australia are so sticky that if you stand still on the one spot for too long, you might get never…

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