Staff Writers, Author at Backseat Mafia

Live: Years & Years, 02 Apollo Manchester – 2/4/16

Through bright red beams, Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Türkmen make their way to the stage and flamboyantly eccentric frontman Olly Alexander is soon so follow as Foundation rings out around…

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News

News: Troye Sivan To Tour UK This Month

Coming to fame as a successful YouTuber after starting his channel back in 2007, electro pop talent Troye Sivan used his current fame and 4 million strong followers to make…

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Live: Trivium, Savage Messiah & As Lions, York Barbican – 29.3.16

As Lions prove unfazed by the lack of people inside the Barbican by the time they take to the stage, of what seems like a smaller version of Leeds Arena,…

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Track / Video

Track: Goat – I sing in silenc, plus Tour Dates

By Ryan J Weaver Goat announces new 7″: I Sing In Silence, they are here again with a more tempered and drawn out sound. This is them cooled off from…

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Live Review: The Neighbourhood, O2 Ritz Manchester – 20.3.16

After dropping their new album Wiped Out! Last year, this is the first chance to fully exhibit the album to the UK fanbase and the wonderfully picturesque O2 Ritz in…

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Album Reviews

Album Review: Cullen Omori – New Misery

By Ryan Jameson Weaver And just like that, former Smith Westerns front man Cullen Omori has proven his right. He has proven not only that he can endure, but that…

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Album Review: Amon Amarth – Jomsviking

Pillaging its way through your speakers comes Amon Amarth’s latest album Jomsviking, written by big beardy blokes for big beardy blokes. While their past two efforts were still of reasonably…

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Say Psych: One Unique Signal Interviewed

Like a debilitating onslaught of necrotizing fasciitis, One Unique Signal have been carving away complicated lesions on the traumatised skin of the psychedelic music scene for around fourteen years now. Their distinctive take…

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Album Review: Crashing into things – To Consume, and To Be Consumed

In a world of music that tends to insult our intelligence it’s refreshing to hear a band that actually challenges us intellectually. Crashing Into Things prove to be highly creative…

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Album Review: Galerie Stratique – Rêves de Béton

It is unclear whether Quebec’s Galerie Stratique (Charles-Émile Beullac) is presenting us with a vision of the future or his interpretation of the modern desensitized world. Either way the outlook…

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