Backseat Mafia

TRACK: 79.5 – ‘My Dream’: timeless, crate-diggin’ retro-soul gem

IT’S absolutely fair to say that Big Crown Records, which has been down in the crates bringing you some incredibly fine cuts out of its Brooklyn base for the past…

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Exclusive: Fake Turin’s record At Home Session of ‘Legs’ for Backseat Mafia

A while ago we premiered Leg’s, Fake Turins latest single. We were enamoured by the indie rock of the backing over this intelligent spoken word poetry over the top, and…

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Track: Pardon Band – Eliza M

One man wonder John Cornwell, who had been delighting audiences whilst part of Little Mirrors, now goes under a couple of monikers of Pale White Dot and Pardon Bank has…

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Film Review: Make-Up

Today, us Brits seem to have a love/hate relationship with our traditional seaside resorts. With the elemental power of the sea and beautiful coastal walks comes the faded and crumbling…

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TRACK: Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti – ‘Drifting’: out-classical, ISDN warmth

MONTREAL-based, Toulousain composer Olivier Alary and his Berlin-based compatriot Johannes Malfatti have been friends for many years – that kind of relationship so much easier to conduct in our modern…

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Album Review: The Wee Cherubs – The Merry Makers

The ever-reliable Optic Nerve label are shedding some light on this obscure gem of a band who featured Martin Cotter, later to resurface in The Bachelor Pad, (chiefly remembered for…

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Track: Jack Bratt – The Outsider

The last time we covered Jack Bratt, he had just been awarded the prestigious Grant McLennan Fellowship jointly funded by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Australian Performing…

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Track: Death Bells – Heavenly Bodies

At the core of Death Bells are an Australian duo who relocated to Los Angeles in 2018 and after an initial EP, signed on to Dais Records. They have just…

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Album Review: Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death

If there is one thing Fontaines D.C. have stressed on the eve of the release of their second album ‘A Hero’s Death’ it is that people should not simply expect…

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SEE: Ganser – ‘Projector’: a post-punk despatch from our dystopia

IT CHARGES at you on wiry guitar and rumbling tom-toms, a shadowy simmer. We’re in a lecture theatre, with vocalist and keyboard player Nadia Garafalo demure in a sweater: our…

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