Backseat Mafia

Track: Mdou Moctar release new track, ‘Chismiten’; announce new album

In more ways than one Mdou Moctar has come along way since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread beyond Niger across west Africa via the…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Willie Green

Paul “Willie Green” Womack is a producer, musician and sound engineer who has worked with a wide variety of artists, including Wiz Khalifa, The Roots, Open Mike Eagle, billy woods,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Daniel O’Sullivan – ‘Electric Māyā: Dream Flotsam and Astral Hinterlands’: transporting and dazzling shortform art

Electric Māyā is a collection of short stories; of microfiction. Take your time and don’t breeze through; you’ll be peering through windows into 18 other little spheres. Dazzling shortform

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Green Child – ‘Shimmering Basset’: curious and mysterious psych synth-pop second

A clever, engaging pop album, in which The Green Child's Raven and Mikey hold up a mirror to baroque-psych and synth pop history, smash it with glee, and use the shards to scry it over their shoulders

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ALBUM REVIEW: Henrik Lindstrand – ‘Nordhem’: absolute piano grace, recorded beautifully

Nordhem is a love letter to the piano with the lightest touches of other ambience, the slightest nuances and textures; like salted caramel, that tiny sprinkle brings so much richness. It's a delight.

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Film Review: Mafia Inc.

The Cosa Nostra, or the Sicilian mafia, can trace their routes back to the 19th century. From those shoots have sprouted numerous crime families, or syndicates. These early organisations were…

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Track: Death By Unga Bunga – Live Until I Die

Norwegian rockers Death By Unga Bunga have announced the release of their new album ‘Heavy Male Insecurity’, out on 12th February via Jansen Records. They have now shared ‘Live Until I Die’, the…

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LIVE REVIEW: The Divine Comedy, Barbican, London

TWO GIGS in one calendar week in 2020; this is unprecedented. Both live streams, maybe, but that’s just fine by me in a world which looks to have decided its…

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TRACK: Jimi Tenor – ‘Afroeuropean’: rousing Afro grooves

FINNISH groovemeister Jimi Tenor, who’s all set to release his second album for Berlin’s Philophon imprint, has been out in Ghana getting deep into the Afro thang for new album…

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SEE: The video for Folk Devils’ ‘Forever’ – London noiseniks are back on fine form

SPINNING out of all the gnarl and edginess of West London’s Ladbroke Grove in the mid-1980s, Folk Devils were an outfit that were never appreciated as much as they perhaps…

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Track: Mdou Moctar release new track, ‘Chismiten’; announce new album

Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Willie Green

ALBUM REVIEW: Daniel O’Sullivan – ‘Electric Māyā: Dream Flotsam and Astral Hinterlands’: transporting and dazzling shortform art

ALBUM REVIEW: The Green Child – ‘Shimmering Basset’: curious and mysterious psych synth-pop second

ALBUM REVIEW: Henrik Lindstrand – ‘Nordhem’: absolute piano grace, recorded beautifully

Film Review: Mafia Inc.

Track: Death By Unga Bunga – Live Until I Die

LIVE REVIEW: The Divine Comedy, Barbican, London

TRACK: Jimi Tenor – ‘Afroeuropean’: rousing Afro grooves

SEE: The video for Folk Devils’ ‘Forever’ – London noiseniks are back on fine form