Say Psych: Album Review: Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz
’ Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. “I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at…
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ALBUM REVIEW – MATTHEW SWEET – CATSPAW.
Those of us around a certain age may fondly remember the college rock movement of the early-to-mid ‘90s. Lord knows I do. For a period of time, power-pop became fused…
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News: The classic albums ‘Submarine Bells’ and ‘Soft Bomb’ by The Chills are now re-issued through Flying Nun Records
It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of the New Zealand indie music scene ever since the heady days of the eighties, with the Dunedin music scene, spearheaded by the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West – ‘Farmer Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West’
Dave Scher & The Wizards Of The West is like a finely reduced sauce; it packs an awful lot of psychedelic flavour and fun into a fat half-hour. Afrobeat, surf rock, funk, straight psych, country psych, jazz, shoegaze, are all seep through a lovely record with three of four moments of proper excellence and a lot of red-eyed, 1am lava lamp big-grinned fun besides. It's good to see him back.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Jim Ghedi – ‘In The Furrows Of Common Place’: a bold, proud album of working class folk
In The Furrows Of Common Place is a bold and proud album of working class folk. It bears witness with an unflinching melodious anger - it's the first essential album of 2021
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ALBUM REVIEW: John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas and Greg Coates – ‘Witch Egg’
There's so many ideas in Witch Egg, from so many genres and eras: mod, krautrock, free jazz, even acid jazz; they're arrived at, explored at once, captured, moved on from. It speaks much of the restless creativity at the heart of this, John Dwyer. It's quite a journey for a fringe music head
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EP: VayFlor – Too Far Gone
From the relatively young dance label ‘Somma’, comes their next EP ‘Too Far Gone’, from producer VayFlor and features two original tracks and a remix. Deep, Melodic or Progressive House,…
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Album Review: Still Corners release the majestic album “The Last Exit”: a magical journey of mystery, romance and isolation.
In ‘The Last Exit’, Still Corners have perfectly captured a magical ethereal desert landscape in the spacious layers of their songs. Crystal sharp guitars, soaked in reverb and mystery, punctuate…
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Album Review: Buck Meek – Two Saviors
Big Thief guitarist presents a new album of (mostly) quiet Americana lullabies
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ALBUM REVIEW – POM POKO – CHEATER.
Pom Poko were first brought to Backseat Mafia’s attention early last year when they released their single “Praise” from their debut album Birthday released in 2019. Since then, they’ve been…
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