James Kilkenny, Author at Backseat Mafia

Meet: Land Trance talk of their debut album, the places that informed it, and more

ALTHOUGH their debut album, First Séance, was only released via Rocket Recordings last week, and originally through Forest Swords’ Dense Truth label in May 2020, the duo behind the Land…

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Album review: DC’s Dark Nights – ‘Death Metal’: a raw, ravaging soundtrack

THE NEW soundtrack album is an ambitious and extraordinary ‘first’; the musical accompaniment to the recent DC Comics event, helmed by writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo. Based upon…

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Album Review: Land Trance – ‘First Séance’: dazzlingly cinematic and truly exploratory

A cinematic vista of an album, stitched seamlessly through each siphoning of emphatic, elevating, melancholic elation.

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News: The Limiñanas and Laurent Garnier unveil details of new album and share ‘Que Calor’

FRENCH psych purveyors The Limiñanas and producer and DJ Laurent Garnier are set to release a collaborative album entitled Pelicula, splicing the trio’s affections for psychedelia with their equal fondness…

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News: J. Zunz announces EU/UK tour dates for the winter

J. ZUNZ, the solo alias of Lorelle and The Obsolete’s Lorena Quintanilla, released her highly-praised second album Hibiscus on Rocket Recordings last year (also appearing on our list of 2020’s…

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Album review: Yoo Doo Right – ‘Don’t Think You Can Escape Your Purpose’: fiendishly enthralling and focused

BEGINNING in 2016, Montréal’s Yoo Doo Right have strewn the experimental music world lavishly with fervent, heavenly jams: heavily akin to their eponymous krautrock forefathers, also stirring in a heady…

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Meet: LYR on their new music, post-pandemic life, working with Simon Armitage, and more

THE genre-splicing LYR, comprised of Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, musician and vocalist Richard Walters, and producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick J Pearson, fuse their three distinct but complimentary musical selves into…

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Track: LYR share ‘Redwings’: unique and profound

LYR, an acronym of Land Yacht Regatta, have recently shared their latest emotionally evocative musical amalgamation Redwings, following the recent release of their collaborative track with Prefab Sprout’s Wendy Smith,…

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Track: Matt Berry – ‘Summer Sun’: barnstorming and exuberant

THE EVER-prolific Matt Berry has shared another track from his upcoming album, The Blue Elephant. Berry’s latest is not only, as ever, an elaborate and seemingly seamless stretching of his…

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Track: LYR share ‘Winter Solstice’ featuring Prefab Sprout’s Wendy Smith, and announce UK tour dates

Formed through a passionate creative drive and mutual appreciation of each other’s work, LYR is a musical machine that reverberates an incredibly singular effusion; the triumvirate of Sigur Rós-like ambient…

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