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Album Review: We are given ‘The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop’ by the ever glorious the black watch and it’s another outrageous delight.

the black watch, steered with a delicate and melodious craft by the prestigious and proliferate John Andrew Fredrick, are back to delight our senses with the cutely titled album ‘The…

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Album Review: Helen – ‘Linda’s Head’: So much more than a retro reminder, Grouper and co refresh the shoegazing soundscape.

It may be over a decade since dream-pop shoegazers Helen first shimmered into view with ‘The Original Faces’ but their follow-up, ‘Linda’s Head’, shouldn’t be seen as a come-back album.…

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Album Review: Josefin Öhrn’s ‘Cherry’ is a sensual, sun-dappled second adolescence that shimmers with beauty.

Josefin Öhrn has made an album about falling headlong into desire again, and she isn’t the least bit coy about it. ‘Cherry’, her solo debut, was written during a period…

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Track: New Zealand’s Echomatica release the dream-noir cinematic epic ‘Atomic Girl’

Manchester has always been good at exporting its melancholy. It has travelled in record collections, in accents, and occasionally in whole people, and two of them have landed in Tāmaki…

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Track: ‘This Ain’t How It Ends’ – Crystal Set return with a little jingle jangle sweetness ahead of tour.

Still recovering from the sonic onslaught of their recent single ‘Pretty Schemes’ that we premiered a few weeks ago (see here), the magnificent Crystal Set are back again with ‘This…

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Track: ‘I Know What This Is’ – it’s the luminescent Kat Greta with another pop masterclass.

Kat Greta has long been a favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, and her new single ‘I Know What This Is’ is a reminder of exactly why.…

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Track: ‘Strange Lights’ herald the return of Sand Brothers with a dreamy shimmering soundscape and a new album in the wings.

Last year’s EP ‘Shadows in the Square’ from Sand Brothers was described by Backseat Mafia as being an unique and thrilling series of anthemic delights, and it is good news…

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Live Review: she’s green – Deaf Institute, Lodge. Manchester 02.09.26

Minneapolis' she's green thrilled the crowd in Manchester's Deaf Insitute

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Track: The Somedays debut with Shimmering Jangle-Pop on Double A-Side Singles ‘If I Could Start This Year Again’ and ‘Always On My Mind’

There’s a particular kind of confidence in a debut single that doesn’t sound like a debut single, and The Somedays have arrived with exactly that. The Queensland four-piece kick off…

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News: The luminescent Juice Webster announces new album ‘Kind of Fantasy’ and sends us into orbit with the enigmatic and shimmering title track.

Juice Webster has long enthralled us here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia with her immersive velvet vocals and epic songwriting. It’s been a while since she released her…

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