Interview: Sonic Jesus
On experiencing ‘It’s time to hear’ for the first time, the warm embrace of it’s sweeping grandeur and haunting imagery had me gladly and willingly sealing my “Faustian Pact” with Sonic…
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Album Review: Act – Love and Hate – A compact introduction to Act
One of the blink and you’ll miss it bands from the time of synth-pop revolution, Act flashed and burnt out, pretty much before anyone noticed. The duo, Thomas Leer and…
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News:Second ‘Beat:Cancer’ LIVE event set for November 2015
Fans of darker and harder sounds might want to clear their calendar for November as Beat:Cancer LIVE puts on a night of Industrial EBM Noise to remember in Manchester and…
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Album Review: Albert Hammond Jr – Momentary Masters
Albert Hammond Jr’s artistic work flows through his new material called Momentary Masters to be released in July 2015. The LA lead guitarist attended a Swiss boarding school during his…
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Track: Touch Sensitive – Pizza Guy / Show Me
You might recognise the title of the song Pizza Guy. Released by Touch Sensitive aka multi-instrumentalist / producer / synth freak Michael Di Francesco back in 2013 in his native…
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Track: Sextile – ‘Flesh’
We introduced you to LA post-punk-noir outfit Sextile a few weeks back (click here for interview) after we were instantly blown away by their debut release ‘Can’t Take It’. Well…
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News: Baby Godzilla forced into name change by Japanese Cinema Giant
One of our favourite new bands here on Backseat Mafia has been Nottingham noise rock / punks Baby Godzilla, following on from an amazing performance we caught them at at…
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Album Review: Gwenno – Y Dydd Olaf
It’s always tricky to review an album where the lyrics are primarily in an unknown language, especially in Gwenno’s Welsh mother tongue. Yet with ex-Pipette’s solo debut, Y Dydd Olaf,…
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Track: PiL – Double Trouble
Apparently Mr Lydon has been rowing with the missus about plumbing !?! Not quite sure what the issue was, but it lead to a discussion about relationships and concluded with…
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Blu-ray Review: 3 Women
Robert Altman got inspiration for 3 Women from a dream and the film itself has a dreamlike quality, feeling slightly otherworldly and obtuse. Having built up fearsome reputation as one…
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