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Album Review: MNNQNS – Body Negativity

Hailing from Rouen, France, post-punk quartet MNNQNS are following up their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘Advertisement’ with their first full-length album, ‘Body Negativity’. The band claim to “hate rock ‘n’…

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Album Review: Low Hums – Zzyzx

There’s a happening taking place in Seattle, helmed by Low Hums’ “band-guru” Jonas Haskins. Or is it Sanoj Snikhas? Before the references to Manson Family occur though (who are back…

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Album Review: DZ Deathrays – Positive Rising: Part 1

It would appear some of my fondest memories of Auckland (New Zealand, Aotearoa) have managed to follow me to Backseat Mafia. I recall there was a buzz about a band…

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Album Review: Pixies – Beneath The Eyrie

How many subsequent releases after hiatus subjugate the lineage of a band? Is it one? Two? Three? Should they even reform and create new material anyway? What if it’s bad?…

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Album Review: Cassels – The Perfect Ending

Cassels are woke. That’s at least what the media surrounding their new album, The Perfect Ending, centres on. Climate change, victim-blaming, the far-right, millenial liberalism, sexual assault. These are all…

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Album Review: Ezra Furman – Twelve Nudes

So, if you’re going into this, you need to prepare yourselves. You need to brace yourselves for the rawness, the thunder, the desperation, the tenderness, the rage, the love, the…

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Album Review: Meatraffle – Bastard Music

Nearly four years after their 2015 debut ‘HiFi Classics’, South London indie gang Meatraffle are finally releasing its follow-up, ‘Bastard Music’. It features the band making various left-wing yet parochial…

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Album Review: Press Club – Wasted Energy

Australian Garage Rock/Punk band Press club are set to release there 2nd studio album via Hassle Records on August 16th. Originating in Melbourne they have built up a reputation for…

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Classic Compilation: Various Artists – Step Right Up: The Songs of Tom Waits

As an example of the Tribute Album sub-genre, it's fair to say that Step Right Up is easily one of the best.

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Album Review: Lizzo – Cuz I Love You

I’m not a Lizzo fan. For starters I’m too white, too male, too middle aged, too cis to appreciate Lizzo on absolutely every level that she deserves to be appreciated…

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