News: Mallrat embarks on European tour
Brisbane’s fabulous Mallrat has just finished her US tour with an incandescent performance of her song ‘Charlie‘ off her EP ‘Driving Music’ on the Late, Late Show with James Corden.…
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Track: BOB re-release Convenience in support of their final tour dates
All good things must come to an end, and largely unheralded but none the less brilliant 80s/90s indie merchants BOB have decided to end their reemergence with a flurry of…
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Track: Flogging a Dead One Horse Town – Flogging a Dead One Horse Town (EP)
I’ll be upfront: Flogging a Dead One Horse Town (FADOHT) are not the dreamy melodic popsters that often typify the kind of band I review. This eponymous EP is muscular,…
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Live: Honeyblood – QMU Glasgow 24.10.2019 Plus Gallery
Stina Tweeddale and band bewitch the Glasgow crowd with an intoxicating brew of beloved back catalogue tracks and box-fresh songs from her latest album. It’s appropriate that Honeyblood are returning…
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Track: Tan Cologne – Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico
Probably influenced by a recent revisit to the world of TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, my image of New Mexico is a bright, cloudless, surreal landscape of magic, bleached bones and…
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Album Review: Corridor – Junior
Corridor have the unique distinction of being legendary label Subpop‘s first francophone signing. Hailing from Montreal, their newly released album ‘Junior’ is utterly endearing and highly distinct. Guitar driven and…
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Track: rincs – Locked In
rincs are LA duo Rebecca Ramirez and Bjorn Winberg and their new single ‘Locked In’ is a gorgeously unassuming delight. Ramirez’s voice is hauntingly melancholic and expressive, the instrumentation unadorned…
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Not Forgotten: Super Furry Animals – Guerrilla
For years I felt that Guerrilla was Super Furry Animals‘ untidiest album by some distance, never quite really holding it as close to my heart as I have their other albums, despite SFA being…
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Track: Didirri – Blue Mood Rising
Didirri is at the forefront of a whole bunch of preciously talented youngsters producing some incredible guitar-based music across Australia (see also Hatchie and Chakra Efendi, recently reviewed by Backseat…
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Track: Chakra Efendi – Morphine/Body by the Water
Chakra Efendi is a rare and unique talent: a product of the talent factory that is Queensland and with a low-fi resonance that is haunting and melancholic. Efendi (uses they/them/their…
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