Backseat Mafia

Track: The Allergies – ‘Move On Baby’: Let the Bristol sunshine in with this Latin-inflected banger

HIGH SUMMER, nearly solstice time already – and bringing the necessary hip swing to the longest days are The Allergies, the ever-dependable Brizzle groovers, who today drop two phials of…

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Track: Carpet brings the Malkmus instant fuzz anthem dynamic to ‘Terror Tear’

BRINGING the vibe of Malkmus over the ocean to bear on only his second single, Rob Slater, the Leeds musician who’s set up in business as Carpet, has produced a…

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Album Review: Bright Light Bright Light – ‘So Gay, So Dramatic’

It’s been a busy twelve months for New York dwelling Welsh man Rod Thomas, AKA Bright Light Bright Light. It was only September last year when he released his forth…

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Tracks: The abidingly brilliant Patrick Watson shares the luscious three-part movement, ‘A Mermaid In Lisbon’

MONTREALAIS singer-songwriter Patrick Watson, the talent behind Cinematic Orchestra’s astonishing ballad “To Build A Home” and whose Adventures In Your Own Backyard is baroque pop album of the century so…

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Exclusive: Scott Matthews records Wait in the Car live in session for Backseat Mafia

Singer-songwriter Scott Matthews is the latest to join us for our At Home Sessions with this acoustic performance of Wait In The Car. Matthews shows off his impressive vocal range…

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Track: The Slow Summits – ‘Then Again’: a blast of properly cute C86 indie from Sweden

INDIEPOP KIDS, north and south, east and west: if C86, early Creation, Sarah Records and taking the subway to your suburb raise gladness in your heart, then you need to…

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News: The luscious, genre-defying electronica pop trio Afternoon Bike Ride announce a debut album for September; hear a first single, ‘Dog Years’, feat. Middle School

A MEETING of delicate pop like minds: musician-producers David Tanton (aka Rhoda/Tender Spring), Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette (aka Thomas White), and Lia Kurihara (aka LIA) met on the fertile Montréalais music…

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News: Swiss punk popsters Chin Chin’s brilliant ‘Stop Your Crying’ and The Siddeleys’ ‘Sunshine Thuggery’ EP are the latest indiepop nuggets in Optic Nerve’s singles club – and not forgetting Girls At Our Best …

OPTIC NERVE, the Preston label which is repressing indie 7″s with love and care in its singles series, version 3.0 of which is with us now, is poised to release…

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Track: Bryan Away – ‘Dreams And Circumstance’: glorious baroque-psych from Chicago songsmith

SPURNING a promising career in acting is beginning to look like a good move for Chicago baroque-pop artist Bryan Away. With his third single, “Dreams And Circumstance”, out now, followed…

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Film Review: Treasure City

Whilst Hungary might not seem, on the face of it, to be a hotbed of filmmaking talent, over the years it has produced a number of exciting directors. The likes…

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