Matt H, Author at Backseat Mafia

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See: Battery Operated Orchestra – Perfect Wreck

Ahead of finishing a new album later in the year, classy Brighton-based vintage synthpoppers Battery Operated Orchestra have a new video out for Perfect Wreck. You can also pick it…

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EP: Dorian- Just What Is It That Makes Dorian So Different, So Appealing?

Dorian is Mr Cox, the former guitarist with the Long Blondes, now in Manchester and making a return to releasing music. A warning though, the Long Blondes this ain’t. It’s…

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Album Review: Zed Penguin – A Ghost, A Beast

Edinburgh seems to be a bit of a breeding ground for slightly ravaged art rock eccentrics toting cellos. Zed Penguin have been around a while, ploughing not a dissimilar furrow…

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Not Forgotten: Chu Ishikawa – Tetsuo: Complete Box

Right at the end of 2017 came the news that Japanese industrial composer Chu Ishikawa had died aged 51. I wouldn’t want to attempt any kind of obituary – I’m…

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The Lovely Eggs – This Is Eggland

Eggland then. A place where the Lovely Eggs have got a producer in (Dave Fridmann no less) and gone full Hawkwind. Which means that my friend Julie, though she doesn’t…

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Album Review: Meursault – Fuck Off Back To Art School & other stories

Having returned to releasing as Meursault last year with the often downbeat but lovely I WIll Kill Again, Neil Pennycook hasn’t been resting on his laurels. The new year has…

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Robert Forster – Grant and I (Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens)

It wouldn’t be a surprise to learn that Grant and I took its title from the phrase that recurs most in the book. It describes perfectly what you get within.…

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Mammoth Penguins and Friends – John Doe

This is a bit unexpected. Mammoth Penguins’ first album, while with its own style, picked up not a million miles away from where Emma Kupa’s first band, Standard Fare, left…

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The Jesus and Mary Chain – The Foundry, Sheffield 25.09.2017

I’d been a bit reluctant to head out and see the Mary Chain. Bad experiences with other heroes from the 80s stumbling on unnecessarily with nothing new to offer (and…

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Two new albums from Emma Kupa

Right from her time with Sheffield-based indiepop favourites Standard Fare, Emma Kupa has been of the most distinctive voices in the country. Both literally, with her plaintive teetering-on-the-edge vocals, and…

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