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NEWS: The Coral announce album no.10, ‘Coral Island’; see ‘Faceless Angel’

ROLLOCKIN’ back in from their fastness on The Wirral, the inestimable The Coral, who’ve brought us so much off-kilter psych-pop joy in our lonely rooms since buccaneering into our world…

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TRACK: This Morn’ Omina release “1.000 Cuts (Lingh Chi)”

Belgian tribal industrial; three words that will undoubtedly pique your interest or have you wondering “what on earth is that?” But Belgian collective This Morn’ Omina rightfully summarise their output…

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NEWS: EUGENIUS’ “MIDLIFE” ISSUED ON CASSETTE.

I’ve admittedly slept on Ohio experimental hip-hop artist Eugenius when his album, Midlife, dropped in late 2020. Which is criminal given my appreciation of Death Grips, the sorely missed MF…

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NEWS: Cabaret Voltaire announce ‘Shadow Of Funk’ EP and longform drone sets; hear ‘Billion Dollar’

SHEFFIELD’S deep proto-industrialists Cabaret Voltaire still have so much to say, some 48 years on from first beginnings. Shadow Of Fear, released November gone, was the Cabs’ first new album…

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SEE: BLACK (W)HOLE – THE SHIFT

Austrian experimentalist Black (W)hole is already getting the leftfield brigade here at Backseat Mafia excited – the release of their forthcoming album Strange Worlds on March 5th has seen a…

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NEWS: Gearbox Records to release EP of Don Cherry rarities; hear ‘The Ambassador From Greenland’

LONDON’S Gearbox Recotds is carrying the torch and keeping the analogue fires burning from its own bespoke production facility in the capital, has unearthed some proper jazz treasure: a quartet…

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TRACK: Firestations – ‘The Circular’: bright as a button indiepop drop preludes March EP

LOST MAP’S quirkily lovely alt.popsters Firestations have released a really bright and moreish single, “The Circular”, ahead of their March EP, Melted Medium, which sings with a indiepop summeriness last…

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NEWS: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles announce April album; see the brilliant instrumental bluegrass of ‘Joy Ride’

BILL MACKAY, the Chicago-based guitarist, improviser of note and all-round scion of six strings, sure loves to enter into a two-way conversation with other artists with reliably beautiful results; witness…

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NEWS: Clark returns with March album for Deutsche Grammophon: hear ‘Small’

CLARK, the electronica voyager who came hurtling into our lives for Warp at the turn of the century and quickly decided his mission was to empty the bones of you…

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SEE: Nick Schofield – ‘Ambient Architect’: modular retro-futurism full of light and grace

NICK SCHOFIELD is a Montréalais composer in love with modular synths, and who has a new album, Glass Gallery, coming out early next month, composed entirely on the legendary Prophet…

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