Jon Bryan, Author at Backseat Mafia

Not Forgotten: Blonde Redhead – Masculin féminin

Seemingly permanently entrenched in the fringes of the independent scene, Blonde Redhead have been with us for 23 years now, releasing nine albums for four different record labels. On 30…

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Album Review: Matt Berry – The Small Hours

Matt Berry has is someone who has stealthily raised his reputation in the music industry in recent years without the wider world really noticing, slowly but surely increasing his audience…

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Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Mink Car

Having extracted themselves from the Elektra record label, They Might Be Giants spent the late 90s keeping relatively low key, with the live Severe Tyre Damage and the early internet…

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Not Forgotten: Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

I took the scenic route to being a Bruce Springsteen fan. Perhaps bizarrely I started with his critically acclaimed Tunnel of Love, before back tracking to the stadium-conquering Born in…

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Not Forgotten: William Shatner – Has Been

Can you imagine trying to pitch a William Shatner album to a record label in 2003? For decades he had been sniggered at for his various attempts at ‘singing’, with…

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Not Forgotten: Leaf Hound – Growers of Mushroom

Ah, 1971, a time when rock music was rapidly evolving and youth culture as a whole was still suffering from the hangover caused by the end of the hippy dream.…

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Album Review: Drugdealer – The End of Comedy

I really didn’t know what to expect when I was asked to review the new album by Mike Collins, the man who is Drugdealer, all I knew was that Collins…

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Not Forgotten: Ocean Colour Scene – Marchin’ Already

Anyone who has read more than a handful of my reviews will be familiar with my oddly conflicted attitude to the mid-90s Britpop movement. Seemingly a term coined by Stuart…

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Not Forgotten: Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat

Teaser And The Firecat is in many ways the twin of the superb Tea for the Tillerman, which has been one of my favourite albums since my early teens and…

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Not Forgotten: Wild Butter – Wild Butter

Every now and then, while perusing the racks at Record Collector, I’ll happen across an album that will demand to be purchased based on its artwork alone. Wild Butter’s eponymous…

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