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TRACK: Lizzie Reid announces debut EP; hear ‘Always Lovely’

YOU HAVE to say, rising Essex indie imprint Seven Four Seven Six can count its blessings in enticing emerging Glasgow songwriter Lizzie Reid to its ranks. She’s announced her debut…

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Blu-ray Review: La Haine

Paris, the City of Lights. The most romantic place in the world. When you visit the French capital you mostly see the dream. Travel out of the city into some…

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Track: Thomas Keating – Cold Night

Sydney singer Thomas Keating has just released an absolutely gorgeous track ‘Cold Night’ and a dazzling accompanying video for the song. Inspired by time spent in Melbourne, the song is…

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Track: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio release new single Call Your Mom ahead of new album

Seattle based Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio have announced details of their sophomore album. ‘I told you so’ is out on Colemine Records on January 29th next year, and ahead of…

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Track: Bradford release new single ‘Down-Faced Doll’ ahead of first album in 30 years

In amongst the misery of 2020, some bright shoots of hope were provided for us here at Backseat Mafia by the reformation Of criminally overlooked 80s/90s indie band Bradford. Ahead…

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Live Review: SEED Ensemble & Guests- Celebrating Pharoah Sanders 14 /11/20 London Barbican

‘Jazz is cool’ must have been the mantra that the London Jazz Festival organisers offered up many times over the past few turbulent months as they tried maintain calm and…

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Track: James Yorkston- Upcoming album ‘The Wide,Wide River’ + preview track ‘Struggle’

Warm, natural, humorous, gentle, empathic ….all words that justifiably get bandied about in the scrabble to describe James Yorkston’s music. What is often overlooked is his calm navigation of different…

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Tallinn Black Nights Review: Enfant Terrible

As the saying goes, the flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. That was certainly the case with one of Germany’s greatest film directors. Rainer Werner Fassbinder…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Subp Yao – ‘Infra Aqual’: deep into the dark IDM ocean trenches

If you're a fan of the shearing and crushing end of the dance music spectrum - anything from (on-form) The Prodigy through Harthouse and Tresor styles - and fancy the idea of that real defleshed aesthetic spliced with some darker downbeatz interludes, this is a record you'd find rewarding to explore

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – ‘FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word’: fragile, seductive experimenta for voice, tape and piano is

Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz's FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word is a fragile and beautiful work for classical voice, piano, and tape decay, roaming across a broad and brittle hinterland between Gorecki and Basinski

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TRACK: Lizzie Reid announces debut EP; hear ‘Always Lovely’

Blu-ray Review: La Haine

Track: Thomas Keating – Cold Night

Track: Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio release new single Call Your Mom ahead of new album

Track: Bradford release new single ‘Down-Faced Doll’ ahead of first album in 30 years

Live Review: SEED Ensemble & Guests- Celebrating Pharoah Sanders 14 /11/20 London Barbican

Track: James Yorkston- Upcoming album ‘The Wide,Wide River’ + preview track ‘Struggle’

Tallinn Black Nights Review: Enfant Terrible

ALBUM REVIEW: Subp Yao – ‘Infra Aqual’: deep into the dark IDM ocean trenches

ALBUM REVIEW: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – ‘FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word’: fragile, seductive experimenta for voice, tape and piano is