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Album Review: Editors – The Weight of your Love Track By Track

Birmingham based five piece Editors have just released their fourth album, The Weight of your love. Not a great deal to talk about then except for that their looking for…

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Album Review: Dead Leaf Echo – Thought & Language

Technically it’s not new out, but it’s pretty new to us. Brooklyn quartet Dead Leaf Echo released Thought and Language back in the spring, but we were only alerted to…

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Album Review – The Orb (feat. Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry) – More Tales from the Orbservatory

The Orb are very reminiscent of a time in my life when, it is fair to say, I did a lot of chillin’. I was a research student but, unlike…

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Album Review: Deerhunter-Monomania

I’ve been sitting with this new Deerhunter record for well over a month now. I thought like all of their past records there were layers that took time to reveal…

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Album Review: Camera Obscura – Desire Lines

My falling for Camera Obscura was a whirlwind romance, some years ago. I heard them on John Peel on the Tuesday (Disclaimer: before we go any further, these dates may…

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EP: Ty – A Kick Snare and an Idea part. 2

We like Ty here on Backseat Mafia. We loved A kick snare and an idea part.1, and he was an entertaining and engaging subject when we interviewed him earlier in…

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Album Review: Boards of Canada-Tomorrow’s Harvest

From the opening horns of “Gemini” to the fading strands of album closer “Semena Mertvykh” there isn’t a moment on Boards of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest where you wonder whose album this is.…

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Album Review: Curry Quiche – One Seed, No Leeches

Coming out of nearby Rotherham, which is just about as close to Sheffield as you can get, are alt-rockers Curry Quiche The band, Steve Fidler on Vocals & Guitar, Shaun…

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New Music: Braxton Hicks – The Bench EP

Yeah, I know, you’ve heard the name. I’m not saying we don’t have history, or at least I don’t have history with Braxton Hicks. I’ve known lead singer Joe Hovis…

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Album Review: Deafheaven-Sunbather

Deafheaven’s Sunbather is one of those anomalies that happens every so often in metal music where you’re moved to your core listening to the aural violence. Singer George Clark sounds…

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