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Track: A pop punk blast from Sydney’s SoSo delivers the ultimate laconic message: ‘Yeah, Nah’

SoSo aren’t very happy and you can’t really blame them. The News South Wales Government shut down an entire night time subculture in Sydney’s erstwhile good time suburb Kings Cross…

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Track: Tyne-James Organ’s mellifluous voice graces shimmering track ‘Sunday Suit’ off his newly announced debut album ‘Necessary Evil’

New single ‘Sunday Suit’ has a frenetic racing pace that is energising and buoyant, augmented by Tyne-James Organ‘s mellifluous tones that somehow combine a silk softness with after effects of…

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Track: Bob Evans’s new single ‘Concrete Heart’ is a charming, jangling and melodic riposte to the unkind

Bob Evans is the nom de plume of Kevin Mitchell, front man for the Australian indie legends Jebediah who has gone solo for a number of years now. His new…

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EP: Barley Passable’s new EP ‘Hindsight’ is a collection of auditory delights wrapped in gorgeous melodies

Australian duo Barley Passable‘s new EP ‘Hindsight’ is a crystal clear bubbling stream – cool electronic riffs gurgle and flow with surprising twists and turns with vocal melodies skimming across…

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Premiere: Dumb Whales unleash effervescent new single Pollen

The Dumb Whales‘ proficiency in producing epic melodic indie standards continues unabated with their new track ‘Pollen’, which we are very pleased to premiere today in advance of its release…

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Track: Dominic Breen’s honey-gold vocals adorn the beautiful, shimmering track ‘James Street Tonight’

‘James Street Tonight’ by Sydney musician Dominic Breen is an absolutely exquisite delight, draped in chiming guitars and melancholia and lifted skywards by Breen’s gorgeous vocals. This immediately takes its…

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Album Review: Jessica’s ‘The Space Between’ is an immersive masterpiece of haunting dream pop

Backseat Mafia had the pleasure of premiering the track ‘Silence’ from Sydney artist Jessica last week which lead inexorably to listening to the source album ‘The Space Between’. And what…

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News: New Zealand’s Merk announces new album and releases gorgeous, yearning single Laps Around the Sun

Merk’s new single ‘Laps Around the Sun’ is a gorgeous reflective piece, infused with a sense of yearning and constructed around a deceptively simple synth-based framework. Merk is the work…

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Album Review: Flyying Colours’ new album ‘Fantasy Country’ is a smashing and cathartic dose of shoegaze sparkle

The anthemic and statuesque ‘Goodtimes’ kicks opens the doors of the new and blistering album ‘Fantasy Country’ by Melbourne band Flyying Colours. And what you get at the beginning is…

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See: Heligoland release an arctic chill with gorgeous new video for ‘Hera’ off album ‘This Quiet Fire’

The track ‘Hera’ perfectly encapsulates the overall shimmering beauty of Heligoland‘s album ‘This Quiet Fire’ (reviewed by me recently), and the band has released an enchanting video that is the…

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