Gareth O Malley, Author at Backseat Mafia

Premiere: JD Pinkus and Tall Tall Trees share psychedelic bluegrass odyssey ‘Fungal Mountain Breakdown’ and announce album

This one scratches a very specific itch, so if you’re in the mood for instrumental, warped, spacey bluegrass, then you’ve come to the right place. JD Pinkus of the Butthole…

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Premiere: dayaway lament the one they can’t have on ‘i wish’ and announce new EP

You may know New Yorker Amber Renee as a member of CLAAVS, but she also makes music with Graham Marsh as dayaway, under which name they released a self-titled debut…

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Premiere: Sean McVerry’s TELECOMS take ‘Two Steps’ forward on exhilarating new single

The whole ‘deconstructed live performance as a music video’ idea lives and dies on how well you can pull it off, and pairing it with a song this good is…

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News: FORAGER release kaleidoscopic pop offering ‘Fuji or a Trek’ from forthcoming debut album

There’s a lot going on here and it’s all fantastic. Say hello to New York trio FORAGER, who make knotty, complicated pop songs which pull influences in from jazz, Indian…

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Premiere: The Mortal Prophets return with title track from new album ‘Deeley Plaza Blues’

Toward the end of last year, the John Beckmann-fronted New York band The Mortal Prophets released their debut album Me and the Devil, and you would have expected them to…

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Premiere: Bliss out with LARAAJI and KRAMER’s new album opener ‘Submersion’

OK, look: we’re well aware a 21-minute slow-building ambient piece is a hard sell if you’re not specifically into that kind of thing, but LARAAJI and KRAMER have made some…

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Premiere: MIDNIGHTCHOIR are fired up on explosive new single ‘Molotov’

Patrick Bobilin has been through some shit since we last heard from his project MIDNIGHTCHOIR. He ran for office in New York, was arrested not once but several times in…

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Premiere: Kit Major embarks on new era with two new singles and a video for ‘Break Up Again’

She’s not been off radar for long, but it’s clear from her new material that Los Angeles-based Kit Major is gearing up for a big year. Last we heard from…

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Premiere: Watch Thee Oh Sees riff on ‘Block of Ice’ at Austin Psych Fest in new-old live video

Back in 2008, the John Dwyer-led Thee Oh Sees/Oh Sees/Osees/Orinoka Crash Suite etc. released what was then their seventh album, The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In. If…

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Premiere: Stream Matt Costa’s soaring ‘Katabatic Flight’ score to coincide with film’s release today

Matt Costa likes to keep busy. He’s working on a new record at the moment, the proper follow-up to 2020’s Yellow Coat, which is expected to surface before the end…

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