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Premiere: Brisbane’s loulou’s ‘Depend On Me’ is a scuzzy low-fi shining gem filled with an antipodean garage charm

We are delighted to premiere the new track by Brisbane (or to be precise, Naarm/Meanjin) band loulou entitled ‘Depend On Me’. This is a scuzzy, shambling treasure of a song…

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Track: Melbourne’s Maple Glider releases the fragile and beautiful ‘Baby Tiger’ and announces news of debut album ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’

Melbournian Maple Glider ( the artist Tori Zietsch) has announced the release of her debut album ‘To Enjoy is The Only Thing’ out on 25 June 2021 through Partisan Records…

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Track: BC Camplight – ‘I’m Alright In The World’: Brian returns with a melodic mantra to guard against the dark and announces an extensive UK tour

HE’S BACK, with new melodies to entice, following last year’s Manchester trilogy-concluding album Shortly After Takeoff – an album embraced and drawn close by British music lovers; BC Camplight has…

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Track: Pastel Coast – ‘Distance’: summery dream pop from the Calais coasts

HAILING from the shores of Boulogne-sur-mer, on the French north coast, Pastel Coast are on land, looking out over the waves; as the Cocteau Twins once said with dreamy ecstasy,…

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Track: Catbells – ‘Fade – Rainy Day Demo’: a bright new talent from rural New England with a feline mask and dreampop delight

WE DON’T know who it is that figuratively and physically dons the mask of Catbells; but we do know that she is rather lovely. Born and raised in New England,…

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Track: Bandicoot have the ‘Worried Blues’: another excessively brilliant single from the entertaining Welsh band.

Bandicoot have an attitude and an impeccable sense of theatre and drama that make their releases utterly cathartic and completely mesmerising. We premiered the video for their last single ‘Fuzzy’…

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Premiere: Alice Mary releases a live video for the funky art rock of ‘Too Much’

EAST London musician Alice Mary has returned with a new song, “Too Much”, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere the accompanying live video right here on Backseat Mafia…

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News: Lottery Winners announce massive British tour; see the video for ‘Times Are Changing’

OK, OK, the timing wasn’t absolutely spot on, but lovers of anthemic pure pop were surely tickled of tastebud when The Lottery Winners released their self-titled first album right as…

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Album review: Lou Barlow – ‘Reason To Live’: a crisp Americana homecoming that reveals its beauties slowly

NOTHING less than absolute royalty of the US alt.rock scene, Lou Barlow, formerly of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Sentridoh, The Folk Implosion, is set to grace our ears with his…

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Track: Atlas Genius unveil an elegant serving of indie pop with the shimmering single ‘Elegant Stranger’

The smooth and indelible melodies that feature in Adelaide’s Atlas Genius‘ single ‘Elegant Stranger’ has a shimmering eighties feel: an anthemic chorus and a bubbling undertow serving the layered harmonies.…

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