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EP REVIEW: The Illness – ‘Descending’/’Phrases Redacted’: alt rock gets the tronica feels on cassette

HERE at Backseat Mafia, we’re really quite fond of The Illness. No, god, not that one – not the year-destroying one; we’re talking the Transpennine band who’ve been something of…

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EP Review: Semisonic Release Their New EP – You’re Not Alone

After 2 decades away Semisonic have returned with a five track EP entitled ‘You’re Not Alone’ via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. Due September 18th, the EP was recorded on and off…

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EP REVIEW: Max Cooper – ‘Earth’: cutting-edge IDM for our life on it

IN FORMER times, he’s what you would call a renaissance man, a polymath, Max Cooper: active and proficient in so many fields of creativity and science; jack of all trades,…

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EP: Johnny Hunter – Early Trauma plus tour news

‘Early Trauma’, the new EP from Sydney’s Johnny Hunter is quite simply brilliant. It is a sweeping, cinematic and statuesque release filled with five close to perfect pop songs that…

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EP REVIEW: Wye Oak – ‘No Horizon’: boundless folk-rock choral vistas

WYE OAK have never been a band to stand still; to let the silt of being typecast, the ploughing of the same groove, hem them in. Debuting for Merge back…

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EP REVIEW: Hanya – ‘Sea Shoes’

BRIGHTON’S small but perfectedly formed indie label Austerity Records, the brainchild of industry gentlemen and label co-owners Garry Saunders and Jamie Windless, has gone all chromium oxide on us with…

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EP Review: Moscow Apartment – Better Daughter

The delicate fragility of the music and the achingly beautiful melodies that permeate ‘Better Daughter’ by Toronto duo Moscow Apartment plays a fundamental part in why this EP is so…

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EP: BARBE ROUSSE – FACTORY SETTINGS

DESCRIBING themselves as “psychedelic slop-pop”, Edinburgh’s Barbe Rousse (it’s French for ‘ginger beard’) are to these ears, conversely, a rather neat proposition. Their digitally released five-tracker, the Factory Settings EP,…

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