Briandroid, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album review: Michel Moers – ‘As Is’. Long-awaited second solo album from Telex frontman.

It’s been thirty three years since Telex frontman Michel Moers released a solo album, with 1991’s ‘Fishing Le Kiss’. During that time he’s been consumed by photography and architecture but…

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Album Review: Richard Wileman – The Forked Road

There’s a moment in Woodstock the Movie, during the Country Joe and the Fish tune, ‘Section 43’, where the camera zooms in on a soft-focus blurred psychedelic lightwheel slowly turning.…

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Parisian pop trio Alexandr release debut album – Aloners to the world

The trouble with reinventing the wheel is it usually means a bumpy ride for someone. Sometimes it’s better to just hit cruise control and concentrate on a smooth well-executed ride.…

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Album Review: Kavus Torabi and Richard Wileman release collaborative album – Heaven’s Sun.

This new release on Believers Roast is a collaboration between label creator Kavus Torabi (Gong, Knifeworld, Cardiacs) and Richard Wileman (Karda Estra), consisting of two lengthy pieces that float and…

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Album Review: Ottus – Ghost Travellers

Homerecords is a Belgian label with an emphasis towards acoustic music, and they describe this recent release as “adventurous yet gentle indie pop folk, halfway between electric and acoustic”. Ottus…

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The Dowling Poole – Refuse

The Dowling Poole have released a brace of albums over the past few years, and this one is a compilation of tracks that have only previously existed in a digital…

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Album Review: Arthur Brown – Long Long Road

I’d like to think that everybody knows the song 1967 hit ‘Fire’ (but then again we now live in a world where Paul McCartney is bafflingly seen by some as…

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Album Review: Frank Zappa – Zappa/Erie

From the extensive archive, Zappa vault-meister Joe Travers (Dweezil’s drummer) investigated some shows performed in his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, and quickly deemed them too good not to release. The…

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LIVE REVIEW: Sparks – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels 22/04/2022

After over twenty albums and fifty years in the business, the Mael brothers have weathered everything from adulation to ridicule and indifference, yet resolutely ploughed their own idiosyncratic furrow. Long…

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Not Forgotten: Gong – Camembert Electrique

Released in 1971 on French label BYG Actuel, Gong’s second album resurfaced on Virgin Records in 1974 at the special price of 59p, by which time the teapot was in…

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