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Album Review: The Wombats – Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life

It’s a matter of fact that every budding indie fanatic was raised on a saccharine diet of The Wombats; the angst-ridden exuberance that pulsated from their debut album A Guide…

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Album Review: Field Music – Open Here

With the release of their sixth album proper, Open Here, Field Music have firmly established themselves as mainstays of the dermis of UK music, IE where all the interesting stuff…

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Album Review: Menagerie – The Arrow Of Time

Out today (February 9th_ on Freestyle Records is the new album from Menagerie, led by prolific Australian Lance Ferguson, the creative force behind projects such as The Bamboos, Cookin’ on…

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Album Review: Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus

As a rallying cry for a generation of music fans with a notoriously short attention span, ”Suck the Blood From my Wound” is an attention grabbing opener. Transangelic Exodus has…

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Album Review: Johnny Jewel – Digital Rain

Johnny Jewel is a musical Renaissance man: he owns a record label, he writes film scores, he collaborated with David Lynch on the recent Twin Peaks soundtrack and he’s a…

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Album Review: The Orielles – Silver Dollar Moment

Backseat Mafia recently interviewed Halifax band The Orielles following the release of a couple excellent singles in anticipation of their debut album, “Silver Dollar Moment” due out on 16 February…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – SOL

Rating: 8/10 Portugal’s Dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone…

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Album Review : The Soft Moon’s ‘Criminal’

Luis Vasquez seems like a guy with a lot of torment. He seems like a guy with a lot of existential turmoil to unpack. His work as The Soft Moon…

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Album Review: Joan as Police Woman – Damned Devotion

For her fifth album Damned Devotion Joan as Police Woman aka Joan Wasser has stripped the Motown-edged Soul stylings of 2014 The Classic for a smokier, simpler yet still Soulful…

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Not Forgotten: White Noise – An Electric Storm

“Many sounds have never been heard-by humans:some sound waves you don’t hear-but they reach you. “Storm Stereo” techniques combine singers, instrumentalists and complex electronic sound. The emotional intensity is at…

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