Live Review: Dark Mofo Festival, Max Richter – ‘Voices’ and ‘Reconstruction’, Federation Hall, Hobart, 10.06.2023
Max Richter is a pioneering composer known for his emotive and boundary-pushing music, blending classical and electronic elements. His work explores memory, sleep, and the human experience, captivating listeners with atmospheric beauty and profound melodies. Richter’s ‘Voices Live’ and ‘Reconstruction’ performance at the glorious Federation Hall, as part of the Dark Mofo Festival, was sublime. …
Live Review and Gallery: Dark Mofo Festival, The Gathering, Denni and Tasman Keith, In The Hanging Garden, Hobart, 08.06.2023
The dynamic Dark Mofo Festival kicked off on Thursday with a night entitled ‘The Gathering’, a curated lineup of First Nations artists in a precinct-wide takeover of the MONA-owned venue In The Hanging Garden. It was, as expected and indeed hoped for, a cold dark night in the semi-open precinct but the two-way stream of …
Track: We Set Sail are departing and their penultimate offering is a beautiful and passionate ‘Broken Umbrella’. Out through False Peak Records.
We Set Sail are a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia and if there is any certainty in life, it’s that good things don’t last for ever. We Set Sail have announced their final departure into the Queensland sunset and ‘Broken Umbrella’ is their penultimate release before anchors up, with their …
Premiere: Italian neo-psych band Bluedaze unveils a little shoegaze sparkle with ‘Flesh’ ahead of EP release.
We are honoured to give you an exclusive look at the video for the new track ‘Flesh’ from Italian neo-psych band Bluedaze, title track to their new EP due out on 30 June 2023. The track a thoroughly enjoyable blast of shimmering sounds that ebbs and flows, mixing a heady onslaught of guitars with quieter …
Premiere: Judgment is made – Matt Malone & The Holy Spirits unveils ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’, the visceral and haunting title track to new album.
We are overjoyed at being able to bring you exclusively the new single ‘For The Term Of My Natural Life’ from Matt Malone and the Holy Sprits. Hailing from country Victoria, the song encapsulates a wild and bleak weary world that came from the cruel oppression and banditry of a Victorian era and the remote …
News: Drab Majesty announces new EP accompanied by haunting and ethereal new single ‘Vanity’ featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, ahead of appearance at Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival
Today Drab Majesty have announced details of a new EP, entitled ‘An Object in Motion’, to be released on August 25th via Dais Records. Along with the announcement, they have shared the anthemic and ghostly single ‘Vanity’ featuring a rare guest vocal appearance from Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell. The track is a heavenly slice of Arctic …
Track: According to Greta Stanley, ‘It’s Cool To Be In Love’ – a dreamy anthemic blast of rock pop goodness out through Double Drummer.
One of our favourites here at Backseat Mafia, the enormously talented Greta Stanley returns to the scene with a thoroughly energetic new single that seems to herald a new direction. ‘It’s Cool To Be In Love’ dials up the pace and the energy and delivers a sonic punch with an anthemic chorus more dramatic than …
Premiere: Go to a special place with folkloric rock of The Elsewheres and their new single ‘Run Away With Me’, with launch date announced.
We are very pleased to premiere the new track ‘Run Away From Me’ from Melbourne folk rock outfit The Elsewheres. Coasting on layered instruments fringed by delicious horns and sparkling acoustic guitars, the barbed wire-coated vocals are soaked in whiskey and regret as they tell a tale of heady love trysts and passionate desire. With …
Live Review Plus Gallery: The Church, Odeon Theatre, Hobart 03.06.2023
It was rather apt that The Church should mark their first gig in Hobart for more than twenty years one week ahead of the ritual bacchanalia that is Dark Mofo. A perfect time for sonic absolution before the descent into the wicked ways of Hobart’s famed winter festival. And what a performance it was. The …
Track: ‘Hurt Me Harder’ – Jacob Fitzgerald unveils a masochistic urge with his sparkling, vivacious new single, ahead of tour.
Jacob Fitzgerald has an ability to craft heartfelt indie pop anthems that sparkle and shimmer with vivacity. His new single, ‘Hurt Me Harder’ is no exception: a bright bouncy track with a cyclic riff that has a thread of deep yearning throughout, aided by Fitzgerald’s velvet tonsils. A saxophone burst adds a lounge room burnish …