Backseat Mafia

Sundance Review: I Didn’t See You There

It’s impossible to appreciate the challenges being in a wheelchair presents to carrying-out everyday tasks, let alone anything a little more ambitious. The things those of us who are able-bodied…

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Track: The Halo Effect – Feel What I Believe

The Halo Effect are Jesper Strömblad, Peter Iwers, Daniel Svensson, Niclas Engelin of In Flames and Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity. After sharing their first single ‘Shadowminds’, the band return with the…

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Live Review: Washed Out / Brijean – The Observatory North Park, San Diego 18.01.22 (Gallery)

American singer, songwriter and record producer Ernest Greene Jr who goes under the name Washed Out is currently on a tour of America. Taking his blend of layered synths, quietly…

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Sundance Review: Happening

As the US Supreme Court continues to push back women’s rights in Texas by decades, it’s worth remembering that abortion has only been legal in the country for less than…

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Sundance Review: Dual

I think everyone is afraid, at one time or another, of becoming terminally ill. It’s only natural to fear for the worst every time you’re waiting for results from medical…

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Album review: Beirut – ‘Artifacts’: a masterful and beautiful voyage through Zach Condon’s early years in EPs, Bs and offcuts

MISSION CREEP. One of those pseudo-economic terms that make the decent among us go “eeep”, defined in dictionary terms as “a gradual shift in objectives, often resulting in an unplanned…

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Sundance Review: Klondike

Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand for the last few weeks, you’ll have read about the growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia in the news. While the…

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Album review: Group Listening – ‘Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 2’: essential ambient reworkings with a real sense of place

GROUP LISTENING is a pairing of two very fine Welsh musicians: Cardiff’s Paul Jones, a deft jazz and experimental pianist and arranger who first worked with his partner on this…

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Film Review: Parallel Mothers

There are few more colourful events in the film calendar than a new offering from Pedro Almodóvar. The Spanish master has a flair for the theatrical and an eye for…

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Album review: Claude Cooper – ‘Myriad Sounds’: taut, essential Bristol jazz breaks and cinematic LSD groove

CLAUDE COOPER: a jazz breaks legend in his own lifetime, should he even exist; for who CC is remains a complete mystery. Certainly to me. Certainly to you. One physical…

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Sundance Review: I Didn’t See You There

Track: The Halo Effect – Feel What I Believe

Live Review: Washed Out / Brijean – The Observatory North Park, San Diego 18.01.22 (Gallery)

Sundance Review: Happening

Sundance Review: Dual

Album review: Beirut – ‘Artifacts’: a masterful and beautiful voyage through Zach Condon’s early years in EPs, Bs and offcuts

Sundance Review: Klondike

Film Review: Parallel Mothers

Album review: Claude Cooper – ‘Myriad Sounds’: taut, essential Bristol jazz breaks and cinematic LSD groove