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ALBUM REVIEW: Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight

After what seems like a lifetime since the album was delayed back in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Foo Fighters have finally unveiled their 10th studio album Medicine…

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Film Review: The Night

Iran has a long and glorious reputation for producing world-class cinema, regardless of the state censorship that has been an impediment for decades. Despite all this, the Middle-Eastern country has…

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Meet: We speak to Bradford ahead of their new album

Rather than the global recognition they so richly deserved, 90s indie band Bradford were relegated to corners of second hand record shops, names on old gig listings and, sadly, a…

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TRACK: Pictish Trail – ‘Dream Wall’: hushed loveliness from the dream state

JOHNNY LYNCH who, besides running the dependably excellent Lost Map Records (which, being based, for most of us, up there on the Hebridean island of Eigg, isn’t lost from the…

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Premiere: Lycio release the taut electronic rock of ‘I will take over’

SELF-recorded and self-produced, I will take over is the new single from UK electronic trio Lycio, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Stone – ‘Stone’: Maine psych-folk nugget sifted and reissued

Drag City dig deep, strike fortune: Bill Stone's album rings down the decades and it's really sweet. Sure it's a little rough 'round the edges, but that's absolutely part of the charm; you can hear these songs live and breathe, the actual moment of their realisation. Real and delightful

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ALBUM REVIEW: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘New Fragility’: raging at the state we’re in

On New Fragility, Alec Ounsworth looks at the state we're in and calls it like he sees it; rage and horror is articulated with poetry and precision and more often than not with you being able to sing along with abandon

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SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Lucky’: a timeless, folksy number tells of her time in grief

NUDE’S lovely singer-songwriter Juanita Stein has released a video for her new single, “Lucky”, which visuals which we gladly present for you here today. It’s taken from her latest album, last October’s Snapshot,…

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Film Review: Slalom

As we have seen on many occasions over the last few decades, the relationship between coach and athlete can readily be abused. Parents give their children into the hands of…

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Track: KAI CULT lights a fuse with ‘Cigarette Burns’

With a frenetic pace tilting along at full speed, Melbourne artist KAI CULT‘s new single ‘Cigarette Burns’ is energetic, unhinged and absolutely satisfying. Like a masked antagonist careering through the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Foo Fighters – Medicine at Midnight

Film Review: The Night

Meet: We speak to Bradford ahead of their new album

TRACK: Pictish Trail – ‘Dream Wall’: hushed loveliness from the dream state

Premiere: Lycio release the taut electronic rock of ‘I will take over’

ALBUM REVIEW: Bill Stone – ‘Stone’: Maine psych-folk nugget sifted and reissued

ALBUM REVIEW: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘New Fragility’: raging at the state we’re in

SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Lucky’: a timeless, folksy number tells of her time in grief

Film Review: Slalom

Track: KAI CULT lights a fuse with ‘Cigarette Burns’