Premiere: The Nethered’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ is a refreshing breeze of languid joy and comes ahead of album news.
With gentle background vocals and gentle guitars lapping at the shores, ‘The Long Goodbye’ from ollo’s Alex Crowfoot under the name The Nethered is a fifties-flavoured widescreen epic: easy and languid music that bursts with a melancholic ray of sunshine. We are honoured to premiere this luscious track on Backseat Mafia. ‘The Long Goodbye’ seems …
Album Review: Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird unveil the glorious and majestic ‘Smiles of Earth’, out through Double Drummer, on the eve of a national tour.
‘Smiles of Earth’ is quite simply a glorious album and, for me, immediately takes its place as one of my contenders for album of the year. The new album from Melbourne outfit Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird (CTBNF), out through the esteemed Double Drummer, is a perfect storm of incredible songwriting, magnificent instrumentation and an …
Premiere: Blair Jollands lends his enthralling vocals and style to the Billie Eilish track ‘Everything I Wanted’.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Everything I Wanted’ from New Zealand born, Europe/UK resident Blair Jollands. In a departure from my usual reviews, this is actually a cover of a Billie Eilish song and to my mind, covers are only interesting when they bring something new and unexpected to a track. …
Premiere: Melbourne’s INSTYNKT take us on a rocking, anthemic ‘Ride’ and announce single launch date.
We are pleased to premiere the video for the track ‘Ride’ from Melbourne band INSTYNKT. ‘Ride’ is a powerful guitar-driven track that resonates with a pop sensibility while setting a blistering pace. At heart is the kind of pure rock’n’roll filled with blood sweat and tears that used to form the mainstay of Australian pub …
Track: Western Australian power pop maestros Rinehearts release the electrifying chiming sounds of ‘Powerlines’ ahead of new album and live gigs.
Resplendent in a coat of many chimes, the new single ‘Powerlines’ from Western Australian band Rinehearts positively bursts through the speakers and showers you in sunshine and joy. With a chorus that’s as towering and awe inspiring as the trees in the Valley of the Giants and a wall of jangling shimmering guitars, there is …
Track: Sydney songwriter Laura Jean releases the pure pop exuberance of ‘Too Much To Do’ off forthcoming album ‘Amateurs’.
Visceral sweeping strings and piano droplets form the hyperkinetic base to the new single ‘Too Much To Do’ from Sydney songwriter Laura Jean. The track is organic and sprightly, trotting along with a pop verve and effervescence carried by a liquid, serpentine bass line – a glorious, shimmering delivery. Jean says of the track: This …
Premiere: Conrad Greenleaf ascends the elegant electronica of ‘Mount Analogue’ via an immersive, organic video, ahead of album release.
We are very pleased to premiere this morning the new video for artist Conrad Richters’s project Conrad Greenleaf whose single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a spaced out emission of electronica that gently ricochets inside your head and pulsates with a psychedelic thrum. Plonking raindrop pianos and natural sounds lead us gently into the track itself before …
Premiere: Prudence’s dark perspective says ‘It’s Useless’ – a rich textured piece of shimmering gold, preceding new album ‘Negatives’.
Crystalline, razor sharp guitars immediately focus attention on Prudence‘s stately anthemic single ‘It’s Useless’: they ring out like bells as the steady paced track commences with an euphoric, effortless march. With shades of The Verve in its psychedelic magnificence and singer Tom Crandles’s vocals, this is a shimmering track that we are honoured to premiere …
Track: The National release gorgeous new track ‘Weird Goodbyes’ featuring Bon Iver.
Indie legends The National have just released a gorgeous new single ‘Weird Goodbyes’ through 4AD/Remote Control Records featuring the vocals of Bon Iver (Justin Vernon). With the stately grace that typify the band’s distinctive sound, “Weird Goodbyes’ is a delicate yearning track with Vernon’s contribution adding a different, softer texture and strings augmenting the ethereal …
Track: The Good Love have ‘Too Much To Dream’, a harmony-laden ray of goodness, as they go out on tour.
Following up their earlier single ‘Sometime Sunshine’ premiered here on Backseat Mafia, NSW outfit The Good Love return with another serving of radiant sunshine in their new single ‘Too Much To Dream’. The track has all the sweetness of something by The Beach Boys, with layered harmonies and rousing melodies. The bucolic feelings are enhanced …