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Album review: UNKNOWN ME – ‘BISHINTAI’: a delightful, candy-coloured ambient trip

BISHINTAI is a delightful album, candy-colour bright, beamed from some offworld where fantastic cuboid furniture and hanging egg chairs are the norm; it will add a little brain-clearing wasabi to the most humdrum and dun day. If you've ever swooned for the Sushi 3003 and 4004 compilations; for Air at their most "Sexy Boy" cosmic and and most especially definitely, the bright retro-futurism of The Gentle People - then boy, is this album ever for you

Album review: Matt Robertson – ‘Enveleau’: analogue grandeur, ambience and acid

If old-skool British acid and ambient techno floats your boat, and let's face it, it's such a halcyon era for the genre, mostly never bettered; get yourself Enveleau. Maybe only the redoubtable Mr Hopkin is operating with this deliciousness in the field

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Album Review : Adam Moezinia’s ‘ Folk Element Trio’ – A Sonic Travelogue

New York based guitarist Adam Moezinia first debut album ,’Folk Element Trio’ is what we at Backseat Mafia have suspected it would be , after premiering its single ‘Celebration’ last month…

Album review: Conrad Clipper – ‘Heron’s Book Of Dreams’: a pseudonymous, textural ambient gem

Heron's Book of Dreams is glorious. It knows what to do, it knows what you need, and never aims for cheap and maximal when stripping back, excellent arrangement and contrast can do the job. Think a slightly more abrasively edged, more intimate A Winged Victory For The Sullen. A very beautiful record for people who love the interstices where 'flesh and blood' instrumentation gets it on with drones. Delightful.

Album: Unflesh – Inhumation

Blackened melodic death metallers Unflesh have released their second full-length, ‘Inhumation’. The band partnered with artist Junki Sakuraba (Seven Spires) once again to create the killer album art for Inhumation. The album was…

Album review: E.R. Jurken – ‘I Stand Corrected’: a psych-folk debut full of catharsis and melody

E.R. Jurken's first full missive into the world reveals quite the saddest tale at an angle, never telling, always hinting. It also shows an absolute grasp of songcraft, of melody, and an abiding love of British psych-pop and later American geniuses such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith

Album Review: Electro Indie beauty from R Zak ‘s ‘Dialetcs’

Review : 9/ 10 There’s a certain folkloric quality that’s embedded in your mind, as the music shifts from the nuanced beauty to the darker , more solemn places in…

Album review: Secret of Elements – ‘Chronos’: the worlds of classical and electronic pirouette

A decade in a life lived richly and well, presented on an album which straddles two worlds which are becoming ever better acquainted - modern classical and electronica; when Johann really hits home the two pirouette gloriously. At times worthy of a billing on Erased Tapes or the like, at times closer to J.Willgoose's warm analogue ambience as Late Night Final, if we can take one thing away, it's to endeavour to live as boldly, as clearly and as truly as Johann has

Album review: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: a psych-country triumph from Wand frontman

You might expect Pale Horse Rider to be a really good record; it's actually a great one. It's a record about LA written with all the perception and acuity of native. It takes the country-psych template and when it plays within it, it plays with grace and precision and blur; and when it shifts out beyond, it does with the dynamics of British exploratory rock. All points covered, no filler; perhaps its time to crown Cory the new Wolf King of LA. Buy.

Album review: Spirit of the Beehive ‘ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH’

New album from Spirit of the Beehive on new label, Saddle Creek, out April 9th this is Entertainment, Death. The shape shifting Philadelphia trio return with a new work for…

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