Music
Album Review: Almon Memela – Funky Africa : a South African soul-jazz classic revived.
Call off the search! The chroniclers at We Are Busy Bodies continue their significant excavation of the rich seams of seventies South African jazz with the release of Almon Memela’s ‘Funky Africa’ (remastered by Noah Mintz and available from May 6th). This classic slab of soul-jazz rare groove, hotly pursued by crate diggers, turntablists and …
Live Review: IST IST / Wax Heart Sodality – Independent, Sunderland 06.05.2022
By Hazel Littlemore It was my first time seeing wax heart sodality and as the show began with the lights down low the lead singer took the stage wearing a mask and a headscarf. The lights came up and the act began and he slowly removed his mask through the act to reveal who he was. I …
News: Gomez’s Ben Ottewell + Ian Ball set for an exciting run of downunder shows in May/June
Independent music collective Love Police have announced that old mates, Ian Ball and Ben Ottewell from Gomez, will be on Australian shores later this month to play a set of intimate live shows, making their downunder debut as a duo. With music spanning the last 20 years at least, fans will enjoy anything and everything …
News: “Heartbreak you can dance to”: Tove Lo drops new single for ‘No one Dies From Love’ – Performing at Listen Out 2022 – Launches Pretty Swede Records with mtheory
Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling Tove Lo returns with a brand-new track No One Dies From Love via her own, new label Pretty Swede Records/mtheory. The Swedish, LA-based artist has also announced a return to Australia in September and October for Listen Out Festival. Co-written with longtime collaborator Ludvig Söderberg, the uplifting disco of ‘No One …
Track: Everyone here loves Suzi!
Melburnian Suzi delivers scorching track ‘Everyone I’ve Met Hates Me’.
Album Review: Warpaint get intimate & transcendent with ‘Radiate Like This’
Album Review: Warpaint are back after six years with an exceptional album of radiant intimacy.
Album Review: Screamfeeder are back with ‘Five Rooms’ – a pulsating collection of harmony laden fuzz pop.
Screamfeeder have been a veritable indie institution in Australia for more than a remarkable thirty years, and following a return to the live scene recently, they have just released their new album ‘Five Rooms’: a sparkling return to the fray. At the heart of Screamfeeder’s music is pure melody: layered harmonies that are coated over a …
Track: These are not ‘Important Things’ – Marveline unleashes a glorious piece of charming and romantic whimsy.
Marveline – the inspiration of Pete Marley (The Nature Strip and a coterie of other bands) has opened the account for 2022 with a jaunty piece of whimsy with the new single ‘Important Things’. After a darker turn with last year’s ‘Evil Worm’, Marley is back to his ebullient self with a dappling rich luscious …
Premiere: Dadbod reveal new single, True Grit
Essentially the bedroom project of Daniel Host, Dadbod have revealed their/his new single True Grit – and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Sitting somewhere between The Beach Boys and Chris Rea, with a dose of Lloyd Cole thrown in for good measure as well as good slice of himself, …
Album Review: Lalalar – Bi Cinnete Bakar: Furious electro-techno-rock from the Istanbul trio.
Those fine sound selectors at Bongo Joe have really been ripping up the new post punk envelope recently. We’ve had Tout Bleu’s dark-folk electronica, Amami’s earnest Rai inventions and most recently Societe Etrange caused a stir with their free form, dub informed workouts. Now the label is delivering direct from Istanbul, Lalalar’s debut album ‘Bi …