Album Review: Yelka – Krieg & Ferien
*From pointed pates hats fly into the blue / All winds resound as so with muffled cries. / Steeplejacks fall from roofs and break in two / And on the…
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Album News: Emily Jean Flack Shares Debut Album ‘How You Love Me’
Making a unique blend of alternative-pop and traditional folk, Emily Jean Flack has found a space of her own. The daughter of Leahy band member Denise Flack, shines as a…
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Album Review: Flamingods – Head of Pomegranate; London based psych indie quartet return with a delicious slice of fuzzy, summery fun
Bahrain born but London based psych infused quartet Flamingods return with their sixth album, ‘Head of Pomegranate’ out now on the Liquid Lable. It takes the listener on a euphonic world…
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Premiere: Coyle Girelli offers us an exclusive first listen to his magnificent new album ‘Museum Day’.
We here at Backseat Mafia hyperventilate every time there is a new release from UK-born US resident Coyle Girelli with unseemingly scraps over who gets to review his songs. The…
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EP Review: Sarah Buckley – Wind Chimes EP
Irish Indie-Folk artist Sarah Buckley returns with the much-anticipated sophomore EP, Wind Chimes. blending gentle, emotive folk with an indie undertone, Sarah invites listeners on an introspective journey through warming…
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Album Review: The Summertimes unleash a radiant blinding glow in their glorious debut self-titled album.
The debut self-titled album from The Summertimes is an iridescent ray of light, replete with soaring choruses, horn fringes and an overwhelming collection of jingle jangle-encased anthems that shimmer and…
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EP Review: Of Concrete Gods – HurtPeopleHurtPeople
Of Concrete Gods have overcome many an obstacle to get this EP out to the world. The COVID pandemic, coupled with an illness in the band, forced the band to…
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Album Review: It’s ‘A Beautiful Waste of Time’ for the Italian troubadour An Early Bird – a veritable triumph in ethereal majesty.
You know exactly what to expect from Italian troubadour An Early Bird – the work of auteur pop folkster Stefano Di Stefano whose career Backseat Mafia has followed with close…
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Album Review: Rinehearts are in ‘Full Bloom’ with their twelve string jangle and blinding radiance.
The shimmering, jangling guitars and harmonies of Perth band Rinehearts seemingly captures the brilliant bright Western Australian sunshine in their sound, and temper it with just a shake of yearning and melancholia.…
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Album Review: Sophie Hunger – Cinéma (Edition Dur)
Celebrated Swiss musician and composer Sophie Hunger unveils her mesmerizing soundtrack for the Oscar-winning stop-motion film „Ma vie de Courgette“ and a selection of her compositions for other movies from the last…
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