James Kilkenny, Author at Backseat Mafia

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Premiere: See the mesmeric visuals for ‘Outsides’ by J. Zunz

Today, Rocket Recordings and J. Zunz share the video for her latest track ‘Outsides’, available for avant-garde electronic pop lovers (and beyond) exclusively on Backseat Mafia first. The eerily glitchy,…

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Album Review: Rubber Oh – Strange Craft

During lockdown, Sam Grant – part of the godlike (or more appropriately, hellish), Sabbathian riff-age of Pigs x7, and also studio engineer at Newcastle’s Blank Studios – gave birth to Rubber…

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News: La Luz share new single ‘Endless Afternoon’ and announce UK tour dates

Hazy psychedelia received a further rejuvenation last year with the release of the myriad, uber-melodic, luscious, harmony-laden self-titled La Luz album. The band’s fourth studio album received vast amounts of…

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LIVE REVIEW: TEKE::TEKE/islandman – Manchester, 08.05.2022

Two exceptional, unmissable psych exports play Manchester's YES

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News: Rubber Oh share the mercury-like ooze and electronic hum of ‘Nothing’, and reveal debut album details

Sam Grant, guitarist and producer of the Sabbath-infused, sludgy rockers Pigs x7, first announced the arrival of his solo project Rubber Oh with the fuzz-tinged ‘Little Demon’ earlier this year.…

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Live Review: Snapped Ankles – Huddersfield

Snapped Ankles’ first gig at Huddersfield’s Parish not only brought the group’s viscerally energetic heat to the cold West Yorkshire streets, but also featured literal usage of their environment in…

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Premiere: See an enthralling live session from Paisiel

The duo of João Pais Filipe and Julius Gabriel – Portuguese drummer and German saxophonist respectively – released their second album as Paisiel last year, Unconscious Death Wishes: a single-track…

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Album Review: Land Trance & Aging produce utter cinematic-sonic immersion with ‘Embassy Nocturnes’

Very rarely does a record manage to capture a spectrum of cinematic detail in it’s profoundly illustrative composition, spinning yarns across it’s runtime like neighbouring scenes. However – with far…

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News: CAN’s next live instalment gets release date

Earlier this year, the grand archives of Can’s long dormant live bootlegs were reopened to the public, with the series started by the band’s legendary 1975 performance in Stuttgart. Irmin…

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See: Empath return with psychedelic trip ‘Born 100 Times’

Though Philadelphia’s Empath have been championed in The Guardian for the wantonly freewheeling verve of their gigs, and celebrated across numerous other publications, it remains that the part-psych, part-punk quartet…

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