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Backseat Downunder

New releases from Australia and New Zealand

Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne Twin Sisters, Idol Minds, Enchant with ‘Needed You’ – A Mystical Odyssey Through the Intricacies of Love

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Live Gallery: Warpaint at the Oxford Art Factory 23.10.2023

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Live Gallery: Barkaa at SXSW Sydney 20.10.2023

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The video for Perth rockers Sky Cave‘s single ‘Fall’ is, to make no bones about it, confronting. Dealing with the sensitive issue of mental health challenges, it has, however, an important message about resilience and strength that is empowering and euphoric as the track itself: promoting positivity and compassion in an era that seems often …

The magnificent DARLING. return with another slice of Antarctic indie dream pop with their new single ‘Midnight’. Atmospheric and frosty, ‘Midnight’ is an elegant smooth ride moving with a liquidity and velvet sheen with distant, layered vocals weaving in and out of the crystalline synths and guitars. The instrumentation cuts through the hazy drifting movements …

Sydney’s Maia Marsh has an impressive form, having been a session musician (lead guitar, bass, vocals) for a number of artists including Huck Hastings who has graced our pages before and Ainsley Farrell, Georgia Mulligan, Georgia Fair and Gloomie. In addition, she was a founding member of dream pop outfit Goodside as well as being …

I Know Leopard

I Know Leopard Release New Track & Announce Headline Tour PLUS Gallery From Their Sydney Show Supporting Spacey Jane.

Kaeda Daze is the nome de plume of Kendra Fewster, a former member of WA folk/pop band ‘The Hunting Birds’, and her new solo work is sublime. Showcasing Fewster’s velvet soft expressive vocals, her debut solo track ‘Running From Something’ is a warm enveloping track that seems to magically float like clouds: billowing, soft and …

Noiseworks are a cultural pop rock Australian phenomena and emblematic of a particular home-grown and enigmatic stadium rock in the eighties – even us indie kids respected the fact that Noisework produced the most magnificent power rock anthems of the era, with an indelible ear for melody and a thunderous guitar attack and dynamism that …

Nipaluna/Hobart musician Abe Parsons, working under the moniker Caelo, is continuing a stunning upwards trajectory with his third single ‘Tongue Tied’: a raw and visceral folk-inflected piece of indie pop that creates a guitar-laced web that enraptures and captivates. The complex crystalline guitars form the spine to this song: melodic and intricate, while Parson’s voice, …