Arun Kendall, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: Postcards from Pluto exclusively unwrap their tasty new track ‘Chocolate’

One of the most exciting young antipodean outfits around at the moment, the inimitable Postcards From Pluto, today bless us with an early listen to their new track ‘Chocolate’. It’s…

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Track: Zipper tune into another hypnotic triumph with ‘Ear’.

There are some bands you instinctively know are building something special, and Zipper continue to confirm that feeling with every release. Following the dazzling ‘Hiko’ (read my review here), new…

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Track: Watching the Waves, Watching Ourselves – Tamara & the Dream releases the reflective ‘Beautiful Woman on the Coast in Portugal’

Sometimes the most affecting songs arrive with barely a whisper. On ‘Beautiful Woman on the Coast in Portugal’, Tamara & the Dreams strips away the jangling indie exuberance that made…

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Track: Dominic Breen questions the stories that built a nation with the compelling ‘Just Another Day in the Colony’

There are songwriters who write stories, and there are songwriters who hold a mirror to a nation. On ‘Just Another Day in the Colony’, Sydney’s Dominic Breen confidently plants himself…

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Track: Japan’s The Psychedelic Mars release the ethereal track ‘Rusteneration’ – finding beauty in imperfection

Japan’s independent music scene continues to produce artists who refuse to be boxed in by convention, and Tokyo outfit The Psychedelic Mars are another reminder that some of the country’s…

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Album Review: The legendary Crow ‘Hold Sway’ – a brilliant and elegant return that resonates long after the final note

Few Australian bands have managed to occupy the space between beauty and abrasion quite like Crow. Since emerging from Sydney in the early 1990s, they’ve crafted music that feels simultaneously…

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Premiere: ‘I Am The Greatest’ – indeed they are as The Vors exclusively reveal the video for the track off the debut album ‘Boss’

Earlier this year we reviewed the debut album from punk maestros The Vors and we can exclusively bring you the video for the new single off the album ‘I Am…

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Album Review: Bicycle Thieves and Dunedin Dreams – Ōtepoti’s Bunchy’s Big Score top the league with ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’

Bunchy’s Big Score have one foot planted firmly in the storied soil of Ōtepoti and the other kicking gleefully at the future. On their second album ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’, the New…

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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne’s Hannah Potter finds her way home in the haunting ‘Judith’s House’

Back in April we wrapped ourselves up in the warm melancholic embrace of Hannah Potter‘s debut single ‘Snow Day’, a song so assured it barely felt like a first outing…

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Premiere: After a challenging year, Kat Greta is back and showing a little ‘Audacity’

It’s been said before but I’ll say it again: Kat Greta is a prodigious, seriously underrated talent whose releases are like golden rays of sunshine when all else around is…

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