Jim F, Author at Backseat Mafia

Soundtrack of our Lives: We Were Promised Jetpacks

Out this week is the new album from Edinburgh five piece We Were Promised Jetpacks, called Unravelling. Sometimes dour, sometimes uplifting, sometimes epic sometimes understated but certainly all Scottish, its…

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Track: Bryan Ferry – Loop De Li, plus album news

Sometimes age isn’t kind. Judgement becomes cloudy, and previously unsullied back catalogues become minefields. So there’s always a bit of baited breath when artists such as Bryan Ferry (69 as…

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See: Canterbury announce split after December shows

Always one of the more interesting metal bands on the scene, it appears that sadly the Basingstoke quartet are calling time on their seven year career, making this years ‘Dark…

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New Music: Melanie De Biasio – I feel you (Eels Remix)

Taking Mark Hollis as inspiration is one thing, producing an album of the quality of No Deal is quite another, wearing its jazz influences proudly on its sleeve, stripped back…

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Premiere: Nervous Nellie release video for Cat Like Figure

Swedish quartet Nervous Nellie have a dream. Several actually, and a few nightmares thrown in as well. The two sets of brothers have documented them, as best they can, in…

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Track: Communions – So Long Sun

What is it with Denmark at the moment. Everything it touches, musically at least, seems to turn to gold. Communions – comprised of brothers Martin and Mads Rehof, Jacob van…

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New Music: 18+ – All the Time

Out on 10th November via the Houndstooth label comes the debut album from 18+, aka Boy and Sis. It follows on from the track Crow, who’s dribbling RnB/electronica caused many…

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New Music: RÖYKSOPP – Skulls

It coming to the end of an era, for Norwegian duo Röyksopp, aka Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge.Their forthcoming fifth album, the appropriately titled The Inevitable End drops on November…

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Meet: Mercury Nominees GoGo Penguin interview

Its been quite a few weeks for Manchester Jazz Trio GoGo Penguin. Fired skywards by their recent Mercury Barclaycard Album of the Year nomination, they followed it up with a…

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News: Nick Mulvey announces new Uk Tour Dates for March 2015

I’d say me and Nick Mulvey know each other well, but thats not quite true. Me and Nick Mulveys debut album First Mind know each other very well indeed. We’ve…

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