Backseat Mafia

Sheff Doc/Fest Review: Who We Were

On Earth at least, human beings are the only sentient lifeforms who spend a large proportion of their lives thinking about the bigger picture. Contemplating those pressing questions around life…

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News: Tangents continue to explore beyond jazz and go double or quits with new album ‘Timeslips & Chimeras’; hear the propulsive electronica fusion of ‘Lilliputian’

WITH their last album release, last year’s Timeslips, finding itself somewhat hobbled by – c’mon, you know, it made us all stay in for months on end – the enigmatic…

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See: The spectacular, cellular-level abstractions accompanying the slow beauty of amiina’s ‘Beacon’

WITH music this beautiful, it’s so very good to see them back: the Icelandic quartet amiina, who’ve been away for half a decade, have returned to the fray with the…

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See: Laura Masotto and Roger Goula – ‘Refugees’: highlighting the daily tragedies playing out in the Mediterranean in modern compositional evocation

AT THE beginning of last year, the supremely talented Italian violinist and composer Laura Masotto had just began a residency at the former textile mill turned centre for the arts…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Lift Like A Girl

One of the ways in which many societies has changed over the last few decades is in the relationship between women/girls and traditionally macho sports. Whilst there was an initial…

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Track: Dope Lemon sinks its teeth into sweet soul on new single ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’

Following on from recent single Kids Fallin In Love and Every Day Is A Holiday (with Winston Surfshirt) come more cruisy coastal sounds from Dope Lemon, in the form of…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Splinters

Memories are precarious things. They can be elusive and fragmentary, especially when up against the sands of time. Our minds are tricksters, constantly finding new and imaginative ways to pull…

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IFFR Review: Homeless

The ‘developed world’ is in the middle of a housing crisis. With populations on the rise, increasing migration and jobs becoming increasingly centralised in large cities, the pressure on available…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Charm Circle

As the sayings go, blood is thicker than water and you can choose your friends but not your family. Whilst we might consider ourselves to be enlightened and evolved creatures,…

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News: Derbyshire’s lovely Haiku Salut announce a spectrally concerned new album for August; watch a short making-of doc

MOVING away from their recent investigations of the film score, which includes their last full album proper, 2019’s The General, a score for Buster Keaton’s 1926 early slapstick comedy classic,…

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