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Track: Weval announce new EP “Changed for the Better” out 12 Nov via Technicolour: Lead single out now

Critically-acclaimed Amsterdam synth duo Weval (aka Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers) have arrived on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour imprint with news of forthcoming 4-track EP Changed For The Better. Having…

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See: Empath return with psychedelic trip ‘Born 100 Times’

Though Philadelphia’s Empath have been championed in The Guardian for the wantonly freewheeling verve of their gigs, and celebrated across numerous other publications, it remains that the part-psych, part-punk quartet…

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Album Review: King Of The Dead – The Summoning

Horror rockers, King OF The Dead have released their new EP titled ‘The Summoning’, which is accompanied by a full comic book the band had created a Kickstarter to raise…

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Film Review: Monstrum

Throughout history, evil and power-hungry men have created fictional monsters in order to control people. Religion is the most obvious example, which has been used for thousands of years as…

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Track: Overland Inn unveil the title track to their forthcoming album ‘Proxima’: a delicious bubbling slice of electronic heaven

Last month we premiered the fantastic new single ‘Les Mauvais Jours’ from Czech-based French duo Overland Inn following their signing to the brilliant Brisbane label False Peak Records. Overland Inn have…

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Track: Pluto Jonze releases another sparkling double single ‘New Morning High’/’Rumschpringe’ and announces new album ‘Awe’.

We were honored to premiere Pluto Jonze‘s earlier double single release ‘Moonmaking’ and ‘Dot’ last month, and Jonze has returned to the fray with another sparkling double ‘New Morning High’/’Rumschpringe’. Both…

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Album Review: Sydney’s Dominic Breen sets the controls for intergalactic with the glorious shimmering ‘Blue Volume’

Dominic Breen‘s new album ‘Blue Volume’, out today through Double Drummer, is certainly a cinematic experience – both in the sounds it creates and the visions it brings forth. And…

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Album review: ‘Ten Songs’ from T. Wilds is a soft and delicate wonderland.

Tania Bowers, operating under the nom de plume T. Wilds, has just released the album ‘Ten Songs’: a deceptively simple and unadorned collection of the sweetest sounds imaginable. This is…

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PREMIERE: My Son the Doctor find the sweet spot between jazz and punk on animated new single ‘Rubber Hands’

We’ve got a lot of time for Brooklynites My Son the Doctor here at Backseat Mafia. We premiered ‘Bethany’ a couple of weeks ago, and with the release of their…

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News: Wrongpop Records & Running Punks announce charity compilation

Wrongpop Records have announced a new charity compilation album in collaboration with Running Punks in aid of the Single Homeless Project, a London based charity that label founder Stephen Clarke works for. …

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