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Track: TeenCanteen – ‘How We Met (Cherry Pie)’: Glasgow indiepoppers dust down their early recordings and find treasure

WITH five years passed now – what? It’s really that long? – since Glasgow’s sweet indiepop quartet TeenCanteen released their debut album, Say It All With A Kiss, the band have…

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See: Charlie Clark releases a poignant, elegiac tribute to his father in the shimmering track ‘A Bridge To Your Idol’

There is no doubt that Charlie Clark is a prodigious talent – ‘A Bridge To Your Idol’ is his second solo single over the last twelve months and both singles…

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NEWS: wojtek the bear release new single ‘ferme la bouche’ and detail second album

Glaswegian five-piece wojtek the bear make their return today, more than a year after releasing most recent EP old names for new shapes, and they’ve certainly been busy. They announced…

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Track: Jeshua – ‘IDK’: another dreampop cracker from the Glasgow school

DUNDONIAN Joshua Gray transposes into the musical sphere as Jeshua, and as such, plies a delightful, lo-fi yet soaring line in dreamy, gliding guitar pop which could easily have come…

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TRACK: Western Column – ‘Hear Not Say’: spiralling shoegaze sunshine

CHRISTOPHER DEVINE has been a-shakin’ and a-movin’ on the Glasgow music scene for a fair old while now, as part of Dutch Wine and Stock Manager; but he’s changed costumes…

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Album Review: Josh Thorpe’s album ‘Love & Weather’ is a blistering delight.

We proudly premiered the video of ‘Down to the Ground’ last week by Glaswegian-based artist and musician Josh Thorpe, and the excitement caused by this single is only exceeded by…

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See: Charlie Clark releases hilarious and charming video for the jangling single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man’.

Charlie Clark‘s brilliant single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man’ (reviewed by me here) still resonates strongly after numerous listens – I described it as ‘a pulse quickening bell that rings…

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Premiere: Josh Thorpe releases low-fi lockdown video for the smoldering track Down to the Ground

The visceral, raw reverb-soaked guitars of Josh Thorpe‘s ‘Down to the Ground’ form a perfect bedrock for his deep and quietly thundering vocals – a song that burns slowly and…

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Track: Charlie Clark releases the glorious and chiming single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man!’ and announces solo album for 2021

With an impressive CV behind him, Scottish musician Charlie Clark has struck out on his own with the most brilliant, chiming single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man!’. This is a…

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PREMIERE: Gefahrgeist’s ‘Graceless’ is a soaring, twinkling debut

WE LOVE new and upcoming bands here at Backseat Mafia. It keeps us going, looking for that next band or song that just stops you dead and totally rearranges both…

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