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Track: Stella Donnelly releases new track ‘Flood’
Stella Donnelly releases new track ‘Flood’ off upcoming album.
Album Review: Akusmi – Fleeting Future : pulsating electro-acoustic conversations with Fourth World sensibilities.
‘I want the future now’ pronounced Peter Hammill on one of his late seventies solo outpourings. Scroll forward almost half a century and producer/electronic musician Pacsal Bideau has been exploring his own avenue of future thinking. If you put him in a room with the old prog-curmudgeon, he might quiz Pete about which version of …
Track: Ruoska – Silti Syntinen
Finnish Industrial Metal band Ruoska has released new song “Silti Syntinen”. This is the third single from their upcoming sixth full length album to be released in autumn 2022. The band backgrounds the single: “Ruoska presents a full-body-shaking Metal disco with their latest single. Lyrics are filled with humorous metaphors but actually the theme is quite serious …
Track: Peaks! – Black Guns / White Drugs
Italian rock duo Peaks! have just released their brand new E.P ‘Futurephobia’ via Antifragile Music. The E.P is accompanied by the single ‘Black Guns / White Drugs’. Regarding the EP Peaks! state: “The concept behind Futurephobia is the realisation of how a certain moment can influence life and determine the future. Highs and lows can …
Meet: Italian Alt Rock Duo Peaks!
Peaks! are an Alt Rock duo from Italy who started creating music back in 2020 releasing their jaw-dropping debut track ‚’Blackout‘. Backseat Mafia managed to put some questions to the duo to find out about them and what the future holds. Give us a potted history of the band We (Lorenzo and Luca) started playing …
Album Review: Sessa – ‘Estrela Acesa’ : re-imagining Tropicalia with seductive Brazilian pop.
You would be wrong to lazily pass off Sessa’s music as laid back or simply chilled. For sure his sound-world is luxurious and something to recline into but drifting off is not what’s intended here. As Sessa, Sergio Sayeg entwines the pulse and poetry of classic Brazilian pop with psychedelic fluidity and tight-hipped acoustic funk. …
Live Review: Tremonti / Hawxx – The Academy, Dublin 23,06,2022
American heavy metal crew Tremonti blew the roof off Dublin’s The Academy with support coming from London based Hawxx Hawxx were egger to get on stage as they were side of stage five minutes before stage time getting themselves hyped.Opening with Blunt from their Deadlands EP and then Hologram from their latest EP You’re Only …
Album Review: Johnny Hunter’s debut album ‘Want’ is a vibrant masterpiece of new wave post punk indie – dramatic, theatrical and full of joy.
Without doubt, to me, Johnny Hunter is one of the most exciting bands coming out of Australia at the moment and their debut album ‘Want’ is a masterpiece of new wave post punk indie imbued with a punk sensibility. The inherent muscularity of music and imagery is leavened by an erudite sensitivity and an indelible …
Track: The statuesque Caligula make a welcome end of the month return with the gothic balladry of ‘The Ghost of Yesterday’
In their second life, the magnificent Caligula are maintaining the creative rage with the release of a new single every month, and the quality never waivers. This month, it’s the semi-ballad ‘The Ghost of Yesterday’ – a poignant autobiographical track with writer/singer Ash Rothschild’s voice as close to tender as you can get. There is …
News: New Mexican dreamers Tan Cologne announce new album and unveil the gorgeously evocative and ethereal track ‘Floating Gardens’.
Long time favourites of Backseat Mafia, Tan Cologne, have almost single handedly invented an entire new branch of essential dream pop/shoegaze emanating from the mystical deserts of New Mexico – a sort of desert-gaze dream pop that shimmers with all the beauty and alien mysteries of the vast desert skies. It’s been over two years …