James Kilkenny, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album Review: The Lemon Twigs – Songs For The General Public

Whether through the saccharine, nigh operatic heights of early track “Beautiful”, or the gruff bark of recent single “Moon”, The Lemon Twigs have frequently flung their vocal abilities to gratuitous…

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News: Fontaines D.C. announce further 2021 UK tour dates

The Dublin-based band, after receiving well-deserved praise for recently released A Hero’s Death, have announced another set of tour dates in Edinburgh, Nottingham, Bath and Liverpool. This follows the quintet’s…

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Track: beabadoobee reveals details of debut album, plus new single ‘Sorry’

After releasing massive single Care, which subsequently gathered upwards of a million streams, beabadoobee has released new track Sorry. This new single is as contemplative and provocative as her last,…

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EP: Squid – Natural Resources

Squid, the Brighton based, noisome post-punk band who recently released their Sludge/Broadcaster single, have today shared an EP of covers entitled Natural Resources. The EP includes Squid‘s take on the…

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News: Goat’s Commune gets special ‘Silver Edition’ vinyl

After the Swedish psychedelia influenced group’s first album World Music was given a ‘Sunburst’ Psych Limited Edition vinyl, their second album Commune has been given similarly worthy treatment. The new…

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See: Working Men’s Club release video for the bubbling indie dance of ‘Valleys’

Working Men’s Club have just released new single Valleys, which is set to be the opening from their self-titled debut album, following preceding singles A.A.A.A., White Rooms and People and…

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Track: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Mr. Prism

The restlessly creative, splendiferous Aussie psych-machine that is the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets recently released new single Mr.Prism. The track’s music and lyrics have a similar fanciful, spectral vision as the…

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Track: Pigs x7’s ‘Hell’s Teeth’ receives J.Zunz remix

THE typically fervid instrumentation of the Pigs x7 track “Hell’s Teeth”, which featured on their rapturously received 2020 album Viscerals, has been given a reworking by fellow Rocket Recordings artist…

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Not Forgotten: ‘wrinkle’, the early EP from 2/3 of ‘The Cribs’

Prior to forming The Cribs with younger brother Ross, Jarman twins Gary and Ryan made a smattering of noisy goodness as wrinkle. The EP was recorded in 2001 at Springtime…

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EP: !!! (chk chk chk)- Certified Heavy Kats

The new EP by the leviathans of the dance-punk genre, arriving nearly two decades after their self-titled debut, vents as much creativity and unrelenting magnetism to dance (or nod the…

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