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Premiere: Balcony’s Paradise release laid back cover ‘It Must Be True Love’

Balcony’s Paradise are premiering their cover of the Toots and the Maytals song ‘It Must Be True Love’ – a version so laid back it’s almost supine. There is a…

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See: Half Waif reveals new video for Orange Blossoms

Half Waif (aka Nandi Rose) may have released an album only last year, but she is back with a new track and video “Orange Blossoms”. The A-side of a new…

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Album review: Samuel Sharp – ‘Patterns Various’: diaristic, timeless sax explorations

Patterns Various sits in a emerging tradition of very beautiful single-instrument essays; a very personal journey, and a very English one, captures its moments so well that people will be sure to revisit it for decades to come

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News: Andy Bell announces trio of EPs and a compilation; see the GLOK remix of ‘Indica’

RIDE guitarist, singer and sonic explorer Andy Bell has announced a series of three EPs and a compilation to keep you satiated with leftfield shoegazey pop supreme right the way…

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Track: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles – ‘I See God’: that old time religion beautifully recast for guitar and banjo

KEYS, the soon-come long-playing conversation between Chicago’s Bill MacKay on guitar and North Carolina’s Nathan Bowles at the banjo, ranges back and forth across the great bluegrass and guitar soli…

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Track: Mike Lazarev – ‘Finale’: Ukrainian composer drops the final curtain from next week’s delicious mini-album

THE IDEA of a soundtrack to an imaginary film is something we here at Backseat Mafia love straight off the bat, right back to when we fell for Barry Adamson’s…

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Premiere: Waxflower release previously unseen behind the scenes content from the recording of their EP

Waxflower are having an exciting year. Let’s all try not to be too jealous that as we’re rotting away on our couches, Waxflower are getting out there and making a…

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See: The Lottery Winners feat. Louise Wener – ‘Bad Things’: a sweet pop drop with sadness in its heart

LANCASHIRE’S Lottery Winners, who we last touched base with last month when they got it on with Frank Turner for the cans-aloft-in-a-field anthem in the making, “Start Again”, have got…

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Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Time Waits For No One’: a luxuriant, timeless and meditative return

Time Waits For No One is not without its darknesses, its sadnesses, but they're approached with the calm, supplicant grace that sits right in the heart of such feelings; and it is bloody beautiful. It's an amulet, a perfect prescription; you can use it to ward off the world. Really, do

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Track: Resplandor – ‘Adore’: exceptional shoegaze from the Netherlands, via Lima

IF YOU love the way shoegaze can really thrill, really transport, with that amazing combination of sweetly abrasive guitar and blurry, beautiful vocals – less the dream pop thing, for…

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Premiere: Balcony’s Paradise release laid back cover ‘It Must Be True Love’

See: Half Waif reveals new video for Orange Blossoms

Album review: Samuel Sharp – ‘Patterns Various’: diaristic, timeless sax explorations

News: Andy Bell announces trio of EPs and a compilation; see the GLOK remix of ‘Indica’

Track: Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles – ‘I See God’: that old time religion beautifully recast for guitar and banjo

Track: Mike Lazarev – ‘Finale’: Ukrainian composer drops the final curtain from next week’s delicious mini-album

Premiere: Waxflower release previously unseen behind the scenes content from the recording of their EP

See: The Lottery Winners feat. Louise Wener – ‘Bad Things’: a sweet pop drop with sadness in its heart

Album review: Cheval Sombre – ‘Time Waits For No One’: a luxuriant, timeless and meditative return

Track: Resplandor – ‘Adore’: exceptional shoegaze from the Netherlands, via Lima