Track: The Preatures “Better Than It Could Ever Be”
The Preatures are the latest indie darlings from Sydney, graced with the imprimatur of the very hard to please Pitchfork, which lauded their single “Is This How You Feel”,…
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Track: Screaming Maldini release new single, ‘Soweto’
Screaming Maldini are starting their year off in the best possible way by releasing their new single ‘Soweto’. It’s fair to say that we’re fans of Maldini at Backseat Mafia,…
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Album Review: Solander – Monochromatic Memories
Beautiful, tender heart-puncturing songs of loss, desperation, and deconstruction by love. Bravo. “Monochromatic Memories” is a tight record, atmospherically and lyrically coherent and consistent. In fact the only real issue…
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Live Review: Lloyd Cole & the Leopards, Holmfirth Picturedrome30.01.2014
Thursday night saw us carefully picking our way through dense fog along the old Manchester Road to Holmfirth. Destination, one of my all-time favourite venues, The Picturedrome, to see an…
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A buyers guide to The Hold Steady
It’s October 2007 and it’s a time of change for me. I’d recently come out of a medium-term relationship, my career was stagnating and I spent a Saturday evening with…
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Album Review: Quilt – Held In Splendor
As soon as Quilt’s new long player Held In Splendor begins playing you get the feeling you’ve been transported to 1968. The room is a little wobbly, the air is thick,…
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New: Reverend And The Makers anounce new album Thirty Two, plus tour dates
Reverend And The Makers, one of the more commercially successful bands to come out of Sheffield, release their fourth album ‘Thirty Two’ via Cooking Vinyl Records on 24th of February.…
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Video: Pixies – Magdalena
Look, I don’t want to say too much because you have to see this for yourself and if I really wrote a review I’d ruin any sort of genuine experience…
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Album Review: A Great Big World – ‘Is Anybody Out There’
Of all the albums coming out this first quarter, this has been the one I’ve been looking forward to most. When you listen to a lot of albums that try…
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Profile: Cat Bear Tree
Comfortable in each other’s company and confident in the development of their music, on the cusp of releasing their next single, this three-piece are enjoying the way things are going.…
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