Music
Album Review: Antlered Aunt Lord – Ostensibly Formerly Stunted (and on fire)
Sometime Tunabunny drummer Jesse Stinnard has recently released his first record under his Antlered Aunt Lord moniker. Titled Ostensibly Formerly Stunted and released on the HHBTM label, it’s a mixture of his own lo-fi and very much DIY recordings that Stinnard culled from a bank of almost 200. His reputation (locally) as something of eccentric …
Say Psych: Album Review, Lanes Oil, Dream Is Pry by Rollfast
Rollfast is a band that I’ve been following for a while (here for previous reviews); a five-piece from Bali, Indonesia it purveys a great line in blues drenched psych rock that, in the limited number of releases I’ve heard, has never disappointed. Now, after almost 5 years together, the band has put out an album with …
Live: We Came As Romans – The Key Club Leeds, 4.12.15
This six piece metalcore outfit are well versed in club shows so it’s no surprise how easy they make performing freely look on a stage as small as The Key Club’s. Regenerate is the perfect set opener, being both a fresh lease of life from the new self-titled album and having the combination of their …
Track The Wainwright Sisters – Lullaby
Montreal’s Martha Wainwright comes from Canadian musical royalty, being the daughter of Kate McGarrigle and sister of Rufus Wainwright. She and her American half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche have released an album of lullabies, some of them a little twisted. “Lullaby” is gentle and beautiful, but with lines like “Shut up and count some sheep/Do me …
Playlist: Say Psych End of year playlist 2015
Ok so the Psych Insight end of year list is in the bag , but there are a few things I still wanted to share. Here are 10 tracks that either escaped that list, or are from previous years, that have really rocked my rocket this year. I’m not going to say any more…just leave them here …
Say Psych: Album Review, At The Center Of All Infinity by Yuri Gagarin
Happens every year: I do my list of favourite albums and along comes one just after I’ve pressed send and totally blows me away. Having said that I’m not sure what I would have dropped to accommodate ‘At The Centre Of All Infinity’ by Gothenburg’s Yuri Gagarin, but there is absolutely no way that it would …
Album Review: MONEY – Suicide Songs
With Christmas just around the corner, the music on our radios is about joy, happiness and having a good time. But come January we are all fed up of the bells and the sparkle. The festive season behind us and the nights are dark and long. Nights out and Christmas parties turn to cheap nights …
Not Forgotten: Jethro Tull – Thick as a Brick
There are some albums that don’t just define an act’s career, or a moment in time, but a whole musical movement. It’s those albums where the act haven’t just pushed themselves creatively, but have comprehensively outsmarted each and every one of their contemporaries and produce a musical statement which the listener doesn’t just go ‘Wow, …
Meet: Gundogs – northern industrial post-punks
For me the best post-punk bands of the 80’s were a combination of bands who allowed their surroundings to influence their sound, bands such as Joy Division and early Human League (to name but two of many), always had a an industrial, urban feel to their music; and bands such as Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy …
Feature: Top 20 albums of the year – Backseat Mafia staff pick
How do you judge what were the best albums of the year? Well, here at Backseat Mafia its a collaborative affair, where everyone that writes for us has as much of a say as everyone else (how did I let that happen?). Happily, in line with the widely and wildly varied nature of our ethos …