News: Electro techno maestros The Orb announce their 18th Album ‘Prism’ and spark things off with the pulsating single ‘Living in Recycled Times’ featuring Rachel D’Arcy.
The legendary The Orb have announced their return to the fray with the news of an new album ‘Prism’ – their 18th – and a single, ‘Living In Recycled Times’, to whet our collectives appetites. Featuring the vocals of Rachel D’Arcy, ‘Living In Recycled Times’ is a swelling, ambulant piece of electronica that pulsates and …
Track: Damien Binder is looking on the ‘Bright Side’ – another wide expansive sonic journey and title track to his forthcoming album.
Perth resident and New Zealand native Damien Binder has shone a bright light into the darkest of corners of our world with his brand of shimmering indie pop that reflects with clarity an uniquely antipodean universe. He is back this year with the appropriately titled single ‘Bright Side’ – a shimmering and elegant track that …
News: German indie legends Robocop Kraus break 15 year drought with news of an album, new single and tour.
It’s been a very long 15 years since Robocop Kraus have released any new material, and they have now announced the album ‘Smile’, through Tapete Records, and the first taste – the release of single ‘On Repeat’ – bodes well. While often considered to be the German answer to bands like Franz Ferdinand or Talking …
Premiere: Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys unveil their new single – the breathlessly enigmatic ‘Heaving’ with its stunning video ahead of new album and tour news.
We are very honoured to premiere today the new single ‘Heaving’ from Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys. Lucy Kruger is a South African artist based in Berlin, and the new single is a stunning Brechtian piece of sonic theatre: poised, enigmatic and dramatic. Sparse percussion echoes in the distance with an electronic patter while …
Premiere: UK/French duo The Noise Who Runs (including Sneaker Pimps’ Ian Pickering) unveil thrilling single ‘Beautiful Perhaps’ ahead of new album
There’s no qualifying the brilliant dynamic sonic pulse emitted by ‘Beautiful Perhaps’, the new single from The Noise Who Runs, that we are immensely proud to premiere here in Backseat Mafia. A pounding insistent rhythm is augmented by crystalline guitars etching a reverberated riff in the air, while the vocals are studied, cool and distant. …
Track: Tanya Lee Davies tells the saucy tale of ‘Adam and Eve’ in her own inimitable style
Following up on her album last year ‘Dreamland’ (reviewed by me here), Tanya Lee Davies returns with the slow boil sensuousness of ‘Adam And Eve’ – described by Davies as a ‘romantic thriller’ and executed as a rather mesmerising tango in the louche and laconic way Davies has. There’s is always a little dramatic flare …
Track: The Church assures us there’s ‘No Other You’ – a shimmering anthem – ahead of their album ‘The Hypnogogue’.
Providing a delectable morsel to whet our voracious appetites, The Church have just released the third and final single off their forthcoming album ‘The Hypnogogue’ (due out on 24 February 2023). ‘No Other You’ has a reflective shimmering wall of sound with singer/bass player Steve Kilbey’s voice filled with a heart-aching yearning. It is one …
EP Review: Georgia Knight unleashes the dark atmospheric and prowling ‘Hell On Bent Street’: a stunning debut.
The EP ‘Hell On Bent Street’ from Melbourne chanteuse Georgia Knight is a deliciously dark and frosty delight that circles and prowls like a caged tiger filled with restrained anger and a delicate refrain. At every note there hangs a haunting aura, spacious and expressive, gothic and dark. It is a remarkable debut that belies …
Album Review: Robert Forster’s ‘The Candle And The Flame’ is an achingly beautiful paean to life and the passage of time.
The highly esteemed songwriter from the legendary The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster, probably needs no introduction – he is a national treasure. Forster has just released his eighth solo album ‘The Candle And The Flame’ and it is unsurprisingly a beautiful and stately release befitting his stature. The album is deeply imbued with a romantic blush …
Premiere: The Florin Arc exclusively unveil their epic new single ‘As I Rode Out Of The Cane Field Fire’: a gothic, alt.country journey into the outback.
We are honoured to premiere today the new single ‘As I Rode Out Of The Cane Field Fire’ from the New England (NSW) duo The Florin Arc. With a razor sharp production from Hugh Cook that you could cut yourself with, and a sweeping, weeping string undercurrent, this is a rich, lush track that seems …