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Album review: Neil Cowley – ‘Hall Of Mirrors’: A love letter to a city and an instrument

Neil Cowley has been on a journey away from, and returning to, the piano; Hall Of Mirrors is a striking love letter to the instrument, and also to his adopted city of Berlin. But all these conceptual asides fade away beneath the main thrust: it's a truly bloody great record. Buy.

Album review: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘The Age Of Oddities’: a breathtaking, humanistic debut for 130701

Stirring, seeking, wide-spectrum emotional,The Age Of Oddities is a stunning debut and part-tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson from a friend and collaborator; 130701 has the golden touch at present

Album Review: Jessica’s ‘The Space Between’ is an immersive masterpiece of haunting dream pop

Backseat Mafia had the pleasure of premiering the track ‘Silence’ from Sydney artist Jessica last week which lead inexorably to listening to the source album ‘The Space Between’. And what…

Album Review: Rising bassist Mauricio Morales releases debut long player, ‘Luna’

‘Luna’ is the debut album from rising jazz bassist and composer, Mauricio Morales. It’s a conceptual work that echoes with the sounds of spring, childhood innocence, and a beautiful tapestry…

EP: Clara Mann – ‘Consolations’ – Bristol newcomer’s exquisite debut EP

‘Soft, I will say it softly’, Clara Mann opens on ‘Thoughtless’. The lyric encapsulates this, her debut EP via Sad Club Records. Plaintive, classic “almost folk”, quiet, private and intimate,…

Album Review: Plague Weaver- Ascendant Blasphemy

Black metal and doom metal– as ruggedly different as these subgenres are, when combined correctly they can make for an articulate creation. Reigning among the metal community in Mississauga, Ontario…

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EP Review: H.B. Nielsen – It’s Today Again

Swedish singer-songwriter, rambler and travelling tattoo artist, H.B. Nielsen, follows up 2020’s debut album “Grand Opening” with his new EP, “It’s Today Again” which is out today. It’s a delicious…

Album Review: Infernalizer – The Ugly Truth

Goth metal band Infernalizer (ft. Claudio Ravinale of Disarmonia Mundi) have released their debut album ‘The Ugly Truth’ via Rockshots Records. The album is heavily influenced by 80’s metal acts such as Iron Maiden,…

Album Review: Randolph’s Leap – Spirit Level

Spirit Level is the new album from Scottish folk-pop collective Randolph’s Leap. The titular ‘spirit level’ is a steady reference point over what had been an unsettled spell writing the…

Album Review: Flyying Colours’ new album ‘Fantasy Country’ is a smashing and cathartic dose of shoegaze sparkle

The anthemic and statuesque ‘Goodtimes’ kicks opens the doors of the new and blistering album ‘Fantasy Country’ by Melbourne band Flyying Colours. And what you get at the beginning is…

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