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Album Review: Yello – Toy
Electronic pioneers Yello release their thirteenth album ‘Toy‘ Recorded at Yello Studios (Zurich). Toy features guests Fifi Rong (vocals on Kiss the Cloud, Dark Side) Malia (vocals on Cold Flame, Starlight Scene, Give You The World) Heidi Happy (vocals on Dialectical Kid), Jeremy Baer (all guitars). Yello are a Swiss electronic band formed in 1979, who (minus a …
Album review: Collected Works – John Foxx – Cathedral Oceans I – II – III: 5 vinyl LPs in album-style deluxe 12 X 12 book set
Edsel records have released The Complete Cathedral Oceans – all three editions of John Foxx’s ambient classic.This marks the first ever vinyl release for the trilogy of Cathedral Oceans (1997), Cathedral Oceans II (2003) and Cathedral Oceans III (2005). The music is spread over five 12”s and is accompanied by 12 X 12” art print …
Album Review: Big Top Heartbreak – Deadbeat Ballads
Opening with a brief stacked choral and minimal piano number like “Dogs Can’t Play Cards” displays a certain amount of confidence. Do Big Top Heartbreak deserve this level of self-asurdness on a debut album? Is this even a debut album? To be honest I don’t know, because sometimes it’s just fun to plunge yourself into …
Not Forgotten: Rick Wakeman – Journey to the Centre of the Earth
It can’t be easy having been the interesting member of Yes. While the rest of that most hilariously pompous prog-rock act had their heads firmly jammed up their own derrieres, keyboard twiddling cape fancier Rick Wakeman alone was responsible for ‘keeping it real’. Or as real as things can be when your vocalist sounds like …
See: The Raveonettes release video for This Is Where It Ends
As part of their ongoing rolling monthly commitment for a new track a month, or as they call it “RAVE-SOUND-OF-THE-MONTH”, comes the latest from The Raveonettes “This Is Where It Ends” (#10 in the series). This one is paired with a video: It starts with their typical drum kicks and fuzz before maybe a touch …
Meet: Hannah Peel on her new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’, plus new show details
Hannah Peel, 2/3rds of Magnetic North and acclaimed singer songwriter, has released one of the years most lovely, intimate, emotional and beautiful records of the year in Awake but always dreaming, which came out late last month. Busy recording and performing in her own right and collaborating with an array of artists, she’s just announced …
LIVE: Of Mice And Men, Crown The Empire and Hands Like Houses, Manchester Apollo, 1.10.16
This tour sees Of Mice And Men take on their biggest UK venues to date, fresh from supporting none other than Marilyn Manson and Slipknot over in the states. They’re joined by Crown The Empire, who graced Warped Tour with their presence throughout the summer, and Canberra’s very own Hands Like Houses. Tonight they play …
Say Psych: Premiere, Fyre Balls by Ball
A few weeks ago I did a playlist of great Swedish psych music (here). Had I known about this new single from new band Ball I’m pretty sure I would have included it on there. It’s a great piece of fuzzy funky trippy psych that will have you grooving along to the beat and wishing …
Album Review: Videodrones – Mondo Ferox
“It’s pretty late, yet I still have a couple videotapes left to watch. I burned through some Argento, Fulci, Carpenter; now its time to jump into a stack of Gorgon Videos that I found tucked away in the back room of Video World. Faces of Death, A Night To Dismember, and Evil Dead Trap seem …
Premiere: Stop Drop Robot – For the Day
One of the first ever articles we ever wrote on Backseat Mafia was about Sheffield proto-indie rock group Stop Drop Robot, so when they announced it was the end of their particular road back in March, we mourned with the rest of the steel city (as well as people who had witnessed the bands extraordinary …