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Track: Still Corners release the driving shimmering single ‘Heavy Days’ and announce massive EU/US tour.

Arun Kendall September 18, 2021

‘The Last Exit’ from UK duo Still Corners, released earlier this year (reviewed by me here), was a magnificent and evocative collection of glittering and sparkling songs filled with magic and mystery. Still Corners are back with a new single – ‘Heavy Days’ – and an announcement of a comprehensive tour of the EU and …

Backseat Downunder Music News Premiere Track / Video

Premiere: Brisbane artist Aren’t unveils debut single, the transfixing ‘The Black from the Dark ft McKisko’ and announces debut EP.

Arun Kendall September 16, 2021

Brisbane band Requin burned brightly but tragically briefly, leaving behind an impressive body of work (see our review of the single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ last year). All is not lost however – Fionn Richards from the band has formed the project Aren’t, and we are honoured to provide an exclusive listen to the …

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PREMIERE: My Son the Doctor play with pop-punk tropes on spiky new song ‘Bethany’

Gareth O Malley September 16, 2021

Subversions of popular songwriting tropes, if done well, can really speak to an artist’s strengths. In the case of Brooklynite new wave bunch My Son the Doctor, their new song skewers a classic pop-punk fallback: the mutually toxic relationship. Its subject? Er… we’ll let the band explain that one. “We genuinely love pop-punk and thought, …

Backseat Downunder Music News Premiere Track / Video

Premiere: Melbourne’s Skybelly unveils the chapter of an exotic space adventure in the dreamy track ‘Sapphire’, ahead of debut album.

Arun Kendall September 15, 2021

The vivid, sparkling and unbound imagination of Sara Nelson, working under the name Skybelly, creates a whole new universe in her forthcoming album ‘A Space Tramp Odyssey’, due out on 23 September 2021. As a taste of what’s to come, we are honoured to premiere the track ‘Sapphire’ which is due out on 17 September …

Backseat Downunder Music News Track / Video

Track: Brisbane’s dream pop queen Hatchie is back with another incandescent shimmering single ‘This Enchanted’ and news of singing with US label Secretly Canadian

Arun Kendall September 15, 2021

There’s a frisson of excitement in Backseat Mafia’s antipodean offices. It’s been two years since Brisbane’s dream pop queen Hatchie graced us with her presence with her album ‘Keepsake’ (see my review here), and while she has raised her head above the parapets with a few collaborations (including her duo on the stunning Rinse single …

Album Review: Calexico & Iron Wine – Years to Burn

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Track: Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – Almost Loved

Track: Soft Science – Undone/I Don’t Know Why I Love You (The House of Love)

Backseat Downunder: Favourite Releases from Australia/New Zealand in 2020

Premiere: Marveline – Savoury-Toothed Tiger

Track: Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep

News: Brix Smith Start releases statement following the death of Mark E Smith