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Album Review: Bradford release ‘Bright Hours’: a magnificent follow-up to ‘Shouting Quietly’, 31 years on

SOME things change and some stay the same. Whereas before, with debut album Shouting Quietly, there was a car journey home from nearby Loughborough, Left-Legged Pineapple bag strewn on the…

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See: Florence Adooni releases new video for glorious new single ‘Mam Pe’ela Su’ure’

Need to raise those spirits? Here’s a gorgeous ray of Frafra gospel warmth to help you head for brighter days. Florence Adooni has been revered as one of the leading…

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SEE: The Native – ‘Lost On You’: first for the year from anthemic West Country risers

ANTHEMIC Plymothians The Native have just dropped their first single of 2021, the stirring guitar anthem “Lost On You”; watch the video with us, below. Still a new band by…

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Premiere: DISOUT release brand new track ‘All of Them’

Polish rock/metal outfit DISOUT are unveiling their brand new single ‘All of Them’ and we have the pleasure of revealing it here on Backseat Mafia. Taken from their debut album…

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Premiere: The Record Summer release the cathartic beauty of ‘Release’

Taken from his forthcoming album Lay It Bare, out on March 5th via Boden Kuma Recordings, Release is the new single from The Record Summer, aka songwriter Bret Rodysill, and…

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TRACK: Catch Prichard – ‘Lipstick And Fur’: 1am chamber pop … with a coronavirus baritone

CATCH PRICHARD are a chamber-pop orchestral project based in the San Francisco Bay city of Oakland, who have a delightfully nuanced, baritone way with their musical stylings, the like of…

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Blu-Ray Review: Demons 1 & 2

Dario Argento was hugely influential on Italian horror cinema throughout the 1970s and 1980s. As well as being responsible for some of the most iconic and exciting genre movies of…

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Album Review: Loathe – The Things They Believe

This is an album Loathe have been threatening to make for a while, something more conceptual, akin to that of a film score; less Meshuggah, more David Lynch. The heavy,…

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NEWS: Mute sign Sylph, with an EP in May; hear his debut vocal banger, ‘Braid’

DANIEL MILLER’S Mute has added yet another string to its bow with the signing of Sylph, whose debut EP for the legendary imprint, Silver As It Was Before, will be…

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See: METZ become Kings of the Road with “Sugar Pill.”

Say what you will about METZ, the noisy Canadian post-punk three-piece currently signed to Sub Pop Records, but they are consistent. They have been across four studio albums now –…

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Album Review: Bradford release ‘Bright Hours’: a magnificent follow-up to ‘Shouting Quietly’, 31 years on

See: Florence Adooni releases new video for glorious new single ‘Mam Pe’ela Su’ure’

SEE: The Native – ‘Lost On You’: first for the year from anthemic West Country risers

Premiere: DISOUT release brand new track ‘All of Them’

Premiere: The Record Summer release the cathartic beauty of ‘Release’

TRACK: Catch Prichard – ‘Lipstick And Fur’: 1am chamber pop … with a coronavirus baritone

Blu-Ray Review: Demons 1 & 2

Album Review: Loathe – The Things They Believe

NEWS: Mute sign Sylph, with an EP in May; hear his debut vocal banger, ‘Braid’

See: METZ become Kings of the Road with “Sugar Pill.”