Track: Perth trio Ghost Care takes us on a bright and poptastic road trip with ‘Bussell Hwy’ and announces signing to Tiny Triumphs Management
The new single ‘Bussell Hwy’ by Perth trio Ghost Care is an effervescent indie pop delight that encapsulates the joy and sense of freedom in taking a road trip. The band has magically captured restless movement in the indelible melodies, the buoyant backing vocals and the hyper-kinetic instrumentation: it’s full of Western Australian sunshine. The …
Premiere: Late Night Therapy prescribe some smooth silky medicine in ‘Backseat Heartbeat’
‘Backseat Heartbeat’, from Yamba musician Late Night Therapy (the new musical project from Harry Suttor), is a smooth funky slice of sunshine that canters along at a high-stepping trot, tempered with an enthralling air of melancholy in the vocals . With a disco glittering pace, there is a layered synth bubble to the track with distant …
Album Review: EWAH & The Vision of Paradise release the stunning atmospheric chill of ‘The Warning Birds’: an epic reflection of a sense of time and place, beauty and pain.
Post punk new wave chill never sounded better than in the new release ‘The Warning Birds’ from Hobart band EWAH & The Vision of Paradise (EVoP). The much delayed album gestated over a period of disturbance in the ether. Emma Waters – EWAH – says of the development of the album: We’ve been sitting on …
News: Melbourne’s exquisite dream pop trio Dorsal Fins announce new album ‘Star of the Show’ and unveil the ethereal track ‘Sister’ as a taste of what’s to come.
The new single by Melbourne dream pop outfit Dorsal Fins is appropriately floating and ethereal with an aquatic, instistant sibilance about it. Co-lead singer Ella Thompson’s vocals are velvet soft, yearning and mesmerising as they glide along an undercurrent of sinewy instrumentation, bubbling along a clattering percussion. The result is something that has a dreamy, cloudy …
Premiere: New supergroup Victoria (with members from Youth Group, The Vines, Smudge and Songs) unveil the video for the indie pop gem ‘Creative Frenzy’, and announce launch date.
We are madly overjoyed to be able to bring you the premiere outing of the new track ‘Creative Frenzy’ from the newly formed Sydney band Victoria. You know you are in for something special when you have a combination of legendary producer Wayne Connolly’s label Scenic Drive Records, a band consisting of members of seminal …
Premiere: Alannah Russack (The Hummingbirds, Aerial Maps) invites you to ‘Tend Your Fire’: a slow burning southern-tinged paean to positivity and resilience. Catch her light the fuse live.
It is with the greatest pleasure that Backseat Mafia exclusively brings you the second solo single this year from the singer/guitarist Alannah Russack, an icon of the indie music scene with her role on the legendary The Hummingbirds and more recently The Aerial Maps. ‘Tend Your Fire’ is a languid, slow burning fuse of a song …
News: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise storm back with announcement of new album ‘The Warning Birds’ and unveil the haunting single ‘Hole In The Sky’.
There has been a very long build up to the release of EWAH and the Vision of Paradise‘s (EVoP) second album, ‘The Warning Birds’, delayed by births, deaths and of course the horrific pandemic. We have been buoyed, however, by a drip filter of brilliant singles from the band ever since the release of ‘Play …
Album Review: Christopher Coleman and the Great Escape releases the statuesque and breathtakingly beautiful album ‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’, and announces launch date in March.
‘The Great Tasmanian Escape’ can proudly take its place amongst the great Australian albums and songs that beautifully capture the landscapes, skies and very heart of the land. Albums from The Triffids’ ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ capturing the Western Australian coastlines and the sense of isolation, to The Go-Betweens’ ’16 Lovers Lane’ reflecting the urban ennuis …
Track: Sydney’s Flowertruck blossom brightly in their return with the effervescent, hyperactive ‘Crying Shame’, complete with album and tour news.
There seems to be a strange black hole in everyone’s calendar between 2020 and 2021 where nothing seemed to happen, and we all existed in a kind of void. Musically, while many bands lurked in studios and proliferated, some seemed to hibernate. However, like the light at the end of the tunnel signaling the end …
News: Australian institution Screamfeeder announces new album ‘Five Rooms’, tour and unveils the delicious pop fuzz single ‘Don’t Get Me Started’
Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have announced the release of their new album ‘Five Rooms’ on 6 May 2022, along with a tour of the East Coast capitals with fellow legend Adalita (Magic Dirt). …