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Album review: Conrad Schnitzler – ‘Paracon: The Paragon Session Outtakes 1978-1979’ – more solid-state wizardry from the Kluster genius’s archives

  • March 21, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
Outtakes these nominally may be, but a decade on these tracks would have all seen a parallel life in the 12" and the like; a format which was only just starting to find its viability Stateside at this point in the Seventies. And remember not just that these ten tracks are culled from a year or more's intense creative fire, but that those sessions gave birth to three albums. It's an album for intense post-dusk savouring, soundscapes to fall sideways down the rabbit hole into, deep and otherworldly sonic immersion from one of the greatest electronic music brains.
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Album review: Mint Julep – ‘In A Deep and Dreamless Sleep’: kaleidoscopic and dreamy shoegaze pop

  • March 19, 2021
  • Jamie Garwood
FOLLOWING on from 2019’s sumptuous release Stray Fantasies, the duo of Hollie and Keith Kenniff return with a kaleidoscopic and dreamy shoegaze pop venture that is at times an extension of…
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Album review: Chad VanGaalen – ‘The World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener’: an excellent, multifaceted curio of psych and fun

  • March 15, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
YOU’VE gotta love Chad VanGaalen, the Albertan singer-songwriter who completely follows his own muse, sees the world his own goddam way, thank you very much; and who’s been delighting those…
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Album review: Deniz Cuylan – ‘No Such Thing As Free Will’: a pastoral instrumental guitar gem

  • March 14, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
No Such Thing As Free Will is a much prettier and more enveloping record than words can convey; it has a really nice poise between the disciplines of the leftfield, the guitar soli and that of bright folk melody. In this regard if you're a fan of early to mid-period James Blackshaw, but also very much the quartet of 'free folk' albums Stockholm's Andreas Söderström released as ASS in the decade from 2006, you'll find an awful lot to love. A bright, studious, harmonic, pastoral gem
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Album Review: The Paper Kites’ ‘Roses’, featuring stunning collaborations with global female guest singers, is a delicate and beautiful album

  • March 14, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
The Australian folk/indie pop band The Paper Kites are musical icons and in ‘Roses’, their fifth album, they have crafted a breathtakingly beautiful album that has an indelible sheen and…
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Album Review: The Ghost of Helags unveil the shimmering and impressingly beautiful album ‘We Came From the Stars’

  • March 12, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Here at Backseat Mafia HQ we have been following synth pop duo The Ghost of Helags for a while – covering a series of extraordinary beautiful dreamy singles and even…
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Album review: Sarah Haras – ‘Mirage’: deeply effective and affecting abstraction

  • March 8, 2021
  • John Parry
Often abstract albums come across like a loose series of random sketches; but not Mirage. It’s got a clear vision that binds it together and like the best electronic music suggests something different to every listener each time they tune in … and that is some achievement
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Album Review: Huck Hastings unveils a sparkling and gorgeous album ‘Cheers to Progress’, draped in love, loss, longing and optimism.

  • March 8, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Huck Hastings is a Sydney based singer/songwriter whose new album ‘Cheers to Progress’ is a cinematic sweep full of longing, love and loss – a vivid and beautifully expressed series…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter – ‘Anticipation’: excellent studies in twin guitar primitivism

  • March 7, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
We don't get to hear quite enough of the modern fingerpicking style this side of the Atlantic, so if you've drifted off from the form somewhat since Jack Rose passed, or wish to explore beyond William Tyler; then hell; start right here. A grand tour of two instruments and two musical minds woven together so tightly and also unravelling like fronds of a fern, seeking all the multiplicity of new directions in folk. An excellent record
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Album Review: Underground Lovers surprise again with career collection of B for brilliant B sides in ‘Others’

  • March 6, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Not that long after releasing a superb collection of remixes spanning their career (reviewed by me here), Melbournes Underground Lovers have sprung another surprise album on the public entitled ‘Others’.…
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