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News: Apparat to release limited ‘Soundtracks’ vinyl box set mid-April; hear ‘Joel’

SASCHA RING, the German electronica artist who plies his trade as Apparat, is set to release a limited edition four-album box set through Mute in mid-April collecting together a quartet…

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Track: The Drive – ‘Can You Feel It?’: South African sunshine funk nugget reissued

CANADIAN label We Are Busy Bodies has unearthed a proper dose of jazz-funk sunshine, South African outfit The Drive’s 1975 set Can You Feel It?; and the label has dropped…

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See: Kyle Edward Connolly – ‘Get Me Tomorrow’: springtime country rock from Toronto

TAKING that particularly Canadian spin on the alt.country sound, as espoused by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, particularly as he moved through the ranks of Buffalo Springfield – that seems…

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Track: White Void – The Shovel And The Cross

With only three weeks left until their debut album ‘Anti’. Norwegian hard rock band White Void have shared their new single, ‘The Shovel And The Cross’. Anti will be released on March 12th 2021. Front…

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EP: Elle Músa’s gorgeous ‘sun, sun,sun’ is filled with dappled filtered sunshine and hints of melancholia

Brisbane’s Elle Músa has released an EP that literally sparkles and shines like the sun on the Queensland coast. A bucolic and sleepy air hangs over the EP – but…

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Track: Flyying Colours release the shimmering ‘OK’ on the eve of new album ‘Fantasy Country’

Anticipation is building for the new album ‘Fantasy Country’ by Australian shoegaze exponents Flyying Colours, heightened by the release of the track ‘OK’. This shimmering, glowing track offers a tantalizing…

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Track: Marveline returns with ‘Our Parade’ – another smashing power pop track

Last year, Marveline, the solo work of Sydney artist Pete Marley, released the debut album ‘Savoury-toothed Tiger’, premiered on Backseat Mafia. It was a pop powered package of good humour…

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Track: Mulini releases the bubbling R&B/electro of Keep Moving

Alternative artist and producer, Mulini’s new track ‘Keep Moving’, articulates a self-deprecating mental state that many of us have had to drag themselves through over the past 12-months. This record…

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EP Review: Of Mice & Men – Timeless

Of Mice & Men’s latest offering Timeless marks the start of their new relationship with Sharptone Records and gives us a concise three track taste of what we can expect…

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Premiere: The Brackets Release New Single

Here at Backseat Mafia we’d usually begin a single review by telling you what the band had done recently, but thanks to the ongoing global pandemic the answer to that…

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News: Apparat to release limited ‘Soundtracks’ vinyl box set mid-April; hear ‘Joel’

Track: The Drive – ‘Can You Feel It?’: South African sunshine funk nugget reissued

See: Kyle Edward Connolly – ‘Get Me Tomorrow’: springtime country rock from Toronto

Track: White Void – The Shovel And The Cross

EP: Elle Músa’s gorgeous ‘sun, sun,sun’ is filled with dappled filtered sunshine and hints of melancholia

Track: Flyying Colours release the shimmering ‘OK’ on the eve of new album ‘Fantasy Country’

Track: Marveline returns with ‘Our Parade’ – another smashing power pop track

Track: Mulini releases the bubbling R&B/electro of Keep Moving

EP Review: Of Mice & Men – Timeless

Premiere: The Brackets Release New Single