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ALBUM REVIEW: The Flaming Lips – ‘American Head’: a trippy coming of age about coming of age

DEAR reader: let’s take it you need no introduction to the wayward, playful psychedelic brilliance of Oklahoma’s Flaming Lips. I can see a solitary hand raised at the back, there;…

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TRACK: A Lily – ‘Endless Jasmine’: bewitching minimalism laments troubled times

A LILY, the harmonious experimental project of artist James Vella (save, of course, his 2011, Japan-only dive towards a wonky pure pop form, Thunder Ate The Iron Tree) is set…

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Meet: We have a chat with Babybird’s Stephen Jones about that hit single, his creative process and the music industry. Plus we review his new album.

While Babybird will always be associated with the global hit ‘You’re Gorgeous‘, the prodigious talent behind the name, Stephen Jones, has never ceased creating sublime indie pop over the course…

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Track: Bitter Defeat – The Light That Shines

Bitter Defeat hails from Kirikiriroa/Hamilton in the North Island of New Zealand and their debut single ‘The Light That Shines’ is an effervescent slice of classic New Zealand indie pop…

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Album Review: St. Ove – County Show

St Ove hail from Aylesbury and the surrounding villages, Wendover and Quainton in England and yet a gentle, jangling air of Athens , Georgia can be detected in their sound. ‘County…

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Track: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise – Vultures

EWAH and the Vision of Paradise have the dubious honour of being the last band to be reviewed live on Backseat Mafia before the global lockdown, so it’s nice to…

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Track: Young Knives release ‘Swarm’, opening track from forthcoming album

Brothers Henry Dartnall and the House of Lords (one can’t help feeling one of the guys is operating under an alias), are back with another slice of their forthcoming album…

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See: Faithless reveal first new album in a decade and release new video for first single – Synthesizer

Ten years after their previous long player, the legendary Faithless have returned with a new album All Blessed, out on October 23rd and from it the band have released a…

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Say Psych: News: The Oscillation Re-Press Droneweapon and Share New Video

Following the tragic news last week that Tom Relleen of The Oscillation, Tomaga and most recently Autotelia had died, leaving behind him a wonderful and inspiring legacy of music, the…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – Rites of Lunacy

Porto’s dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album ‘Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music’, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone – or ‘Dream…

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Flaming Lips – ‘American Head’: a trippy coming of age about coming of age

TRACK: A Lily – ‘Endless Jasmine’: bewitching minimalism laments troubled times

Meet: We have a chat with Babybird’s Stephen Jones about that hit single, his creative process and the music industry. Plus we review his new album.

Track: Bitter Defeat – The Light That Shines

Album Review: St. Ove – County Show

Track: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise – Vultures

Track: Young Knives release ‘Swarm’, opening track from forthcoming album

See: Faithless reveal first new album in a decade and release new video for first single – Synthesizer

Say Psych: News: The Oscillation Re-Press Droneweapon and Share New Video

Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – Rites of Lunacy