Meet: An interview with New Model Army
New Model Army are back on the road (including a stop-off in beautiful Sheffield on Saturday 11 May, playing Plug with a series of UK and European dates (including a…
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Nick Pett
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Meet: Altadore Interview
As soon as I heard Altadore’s “Golden Hills” I knew it would be a colossal missed opportunity to review the record but not try to get an interview and find…
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Album Review: Altadore – Golden Hills
Wow. I haven’t been this excited about a new artist for a very long time. Wow. I’m not claiming that this band is doing something that is going to break…
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Paper Crows – White Noise: New Music
There was a time when my enjoyment of electronic pop was maimed by La Roux. It was a combination of finding her hectoring voice irritating, and the music being a…
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New Music: Josef Salvat – Hustler
I started writing this thinking that maybe Josef Salvat sounded a bit like James Blake but then i realised that the only time I had heard James Blake was on…
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Kodaline – Love Like This: Single Review
You can’t fault the timing of Kodaline’s record company. RCA presumably have a bank of eggheads working in a basement somewhere under their New York Headquarters running complex predictive algorithms…
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Listen: Sam Pinkerton – Calling You Out
Late evening sun on Portland stone against a background of only sky blue. Who knew this would ever come to London again ? But it did, and seeing that sight…
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Album Review: Daniel Johnston – Space Ducks
I think I might have had my mind melted. I was just checking out some of the comic book for which this album is the soundtrack and the combined experience…
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Album Review: Vinyl Floor – Peninsula
A lot of what we listen to and write about on Backseat Mafia has one thing in common: potential. And that’s what I feel in this album from Denmark’s…
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Video: Low release new video for ‘Just Make It Stop’
What’s the point of a music video ? Boosting the appeal and reach of the song, yes ? By shock, by scale, by comedy, by dance move, by stunning artistic…
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