Benjii Jackson, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: Cassels – The Perfect Ending

Cassels are woke. That’s at least what the media surrounding their new album, The Perfect Ending, centres on. Climate change, victim-blaming, the far-right, millenial liberalism, sexual assault. These are all…

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Watch: Sir Was – Deployed (ft. Little Dragon) plus tour

What’s Joey Janela doing creating music instead of wrestling? Though they look quite similar (it’s the shades they both wear on this occasion), you are actually watching Joel Wästberg’s latest…

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Listen: Mark Lanegan Band – Letter Never Sent plus tour

Fewer voices in music are as recognisable as Mark Lanegan. The ex-Screaming Trees frontman has felt like a sought after collaborator with some of the big names across the decade.…

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Album Review: Shonen Knife – Sweet Candy Power.

I’m always incredibly happy when I hear that Shonen Knife are releasing a new album. What’s not to be happy about? Since their formation in Osaka back in 1991, the trio…

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Track: Penelope Trappes – Carry Me (Cosey Fanni Tutti remix)

Remix albums seem to fall into two different categories at times. There is the seemingly avaricious cash grab element where instead of releasing for free or pay-what-you-want on digital platforms…

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Track: Wasuremono – Self-Help plus tour dates

It’s been a busy few weeks for Bradford-on-Avon quartet WASUREMONO. Throughout this month, the group have played a handful of dates, including festivals Live at Leeds, Stag and Dagger and The…

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Track: Wildhoney – Naive Castle

Slumberland Records have been a mighty presence within the independent community since their formation 30 years ago. This is a label who have worked with such indie luminaries as The…

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Album Review: Lomea – Echoes In Bloom

It would be easy just to tell you that London producer Lomea creates beats that are emotive and cross a number of genres. I could do that, but Resident Advisor…

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Track: Farai – Rebirth Remixed

“Bankers are gangsters” – that was the immortal line that beckoned listeners to the works of Farai late last year, as Big Dada released the producers work, Rebirth, to critical acclaim. “National Gangsters”…

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TRACK: Chris Orrick – Funny Things

“… spiteful chants for the permanently scarred, death letters for the forgotten, surly hymns for charcoal lungs” Mello Music explain with regards to Michigan rapper Chris Orrick, whose latest single “Funny…

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