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Album Review: The Ghost of Helags unveil the shimmering and impressingly beautiful album ‘We Came From the Stars’

Here at Backseat Mafia HQ we have been following synth pop duo The Ghost of Helags for a while – covering a series of extraordinary beautiful dreamy singles and even…

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EP: Sydney’s Silky Roads lets slip a smooth and ultra cool EP ‘Granada’

What’s on the label is certainly in the box – Sydney-based band Silky Roads has just released an EP entitled ‘Granada’ and it is one silky smooth piece of cool.…

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Track: Exanimis – Throne Of Thorns

French symphonic death-metal band Exanimis have shared a lyric video for their new song ‘Throne Of Thorns’ taken from their forthcoming debut album ‘Marionnettiste’, due out this Friday March 5th via Klonosphere Records/Season of Mist. Classical notes,…

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Premiere: Ski Lift release new video for the exuberant indie pop of ‘Portal’

South London trio Ski Lift are gearing up for the release of their new single ‘Portal’, out tomorrow (12th March) and the follow up to their 2019 debut ‘Comfortable Here’,…

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Track: Fresh – Girl Clout

London punks Fresh return with new track ‘Girl Clout’ via Specialist Subject records. ‘Girl Clout’ is a musical embodiment of frustration and pure visceral anger. “I wrote it in two…

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Premiere: Morningside Lane reveal new video for Home Crowd

Out tomorrow is the new single from New Jersey alt-pop/rock band Morningside Lane ‘Home Crowd’, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today.…

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News: Falle Nioke and sir Was announce joint EP; hear ‘Rain’

FORWARD-thinking indie labels are fast beginning to celebrate the soulful connection between dancefloor-slanted electronica and the rhythmic foundations of anything dubbed ‘world’ music. So right on cue Moshi Moshi offshoot…

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Say Psych: Track Review: Veik – Political Apathy

French post-punk trio Veik have just released ‘Political Apathy’, the second single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album, Surrounding Structures, due out 30 April on Fuzz Club Records.…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Urdog – Long Shadows 2003-2006

Long Shadows is a retrospective of Urdog, the work of a mercurial band whose music may have been summoned from fog and ghosts yet possesses considerable staying power beyond their…

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Track: The Fuzzy Nerds – ‘Grasshopper’: Greek post-rock nugget gets a new video

WHAT do we know of The Fuzzy Nerds. the band whose excellently quietLOUDquiet song, “Grasshopper”, we’re taking a look at herein? Not absolutely loads, we’ll freely admit, but a scour…

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