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Album Review: Sessa –‘Pequena Vertigem de Amor’: Uncanny magic and lush funkiness from the rising São Paulo songsmith.

Sergio Sayeg (aka Sessa) is an artist who travels through distances and circumstances with his music. Coming from São Paulo his first pull was towards the psychedelic pop-toned Tropicalia mash-up…

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Track: Devendra Banhart releases new song, Nun, taken from forthcoming Flying Wig album; plus World Tour dates

In the run up to his Flying Wig album, due out on September 22nd on one of our favourite labels here at Backseat Mafia, Mexican Summer, Devendra Banhart has released…

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Album Review: Sessa – ‘Estrela Acesa’ : re-imagining Tropicalia with seductive Brazilian pop.

You would be wrong to lazily pass off Sessa’s music as laid back or simply chilled. For sure his sound-world is luxurious and something to recline into but drifting off…

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Track/Video: Sessa previews new album ‘Estrela Acesa’ with ‘Gostar do Mundo’, a shimmering slice of Brazilian pop from Tropicalia’s new frontier

You would be wrong to pass off Sessa’s music as laid back. The Sao Paulo born singer – songwriter has already demanded much more than casual attention with his sultry…

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Track: duendita reveals the incredible Open Eyes as part of Mexican Summer’s Looking Glass series

Released as part of Mexican Summer’s ongoing Looking Glass series, which focuses on the human condition and is bathed in collaboration, discovery and diversity, Open Eyes is the new single…

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News: Iceage announce fifth album, ‘Seek Shelter’, with ‘Vendetta’

A SIMMERING, fervid forge of modern post-punk, Copenhagen’s Iceage have unravelled in unexpected and thrilling fashion since their 2011 iconic debut. Forthcoming album Seek Shelter, as glimpsed previously with Holding…

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SEE: The video for the souljazz noir of Madison McFerrin’s ‘Hindsight’

COOL-AS Brooklyn imprint Mexican Summer, which has played host to artists such as Oneohtrix Point Never and Best Coast, has been running a lovely diversion from all the nutsness this…

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TRACK: Ariel Pink – ‘She’s Gone’: garage-punk cover announces next reissue cycle

LA’S hallucinatory pop explorer Ariel Pink is revving up for the next phase of his reissue programme, delving right back to the beginning of Haunted Graffiti days with the third…

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Track: Ariel Pink – Iron Worrier

Mexican Summer last week launched a new digital singles project under the title of Looking Glass, looking At familiar names on its label to celebrate discovery, diversity and collaboration. To…

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Album Review: CMON – Confusing mix of Nations

“When I moved to New York, a lot of people were making really interesting electronic music and manipulating sounds, and I was really kind of bummed—there were no songs. And…

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