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Live Review: Anna Meredith and the LCO – Barbican, London 30.4.22

Anna Meredith’s electronic pop music has always been orchestral in scale, layered, interconnected, harmonically complex and structured like a tight stack of circuit boards, wired for glorious sound. So the…

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NEWS: One man’s trash is Fulu Miziki’s treasure as they share pulsating new cut ‘OK Seke Bien’ and announce new EP

Currently mid-way through a European tour – no UK dates quite yet, though that could change, with festival appearances booked for the autumn – the Congolese sextet Fulu Miziki‘s first…

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News: Falle Nioke and sir Was announce joint EP; hear ‘Rain’

FORWARD-thinking indie labels are fast beginning to celebrate the soulful connection between dancefloor-slanted electronica and the rhythmic foundations of anything dubbed ‘world’ music. So right on cue Moshi Moshi offshoot…

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Track: Callum Easter releases new song – Tell em Boy

Scottish singer-songwriter Callum Easter has followed up news of his new album – Green Door Sessions, out on 21st August on Moshi Moshi, with a new track taken from it…

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Track: The Nix – All is Well (Feat. Laetitia Sadier)

Out now on Moshi Moshi Records is ‘Until Now, All is Well’ by Nix, a collective of musicians, headed by Nick McCarthy, formerly of Franz Ferdinand. ‘All is Well’ is based…

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Meet: Doomshakalaka aka Paul Rafferty ahead of his album release

One of our favourite tracks of the year here on Backseat Mafia has been ex-Hot Club De Paris bassist / singer Paul Rafferty’s tracks One Last Saturday Night in his…

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See: Doomshakalaka releases new video for ‘One Last Saturday Night

Doomshakalak is, essentially, Paul Rafferty – former vocalist and bassist for much missed Liverpool indie band Hot Club De Paris, in his new guise. Ahead of his debut Self-titled album,…

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Track / Video

Track: The Wave Pictures – Jim

They don’t know this of course (well, not till they read this) but I’m sort of very proud of The Wave Pictures. Before landing in Sheffield I lived in a…

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See: Sweet Baboo reveals new video for Swallows

Taken from his recent Wild Imagination album that dropped in June via Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo (aka Stephen Black) has released a new video for the track Swallows. As is…

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See: Sweet Baboo reveals new video for Walking in the Rain, plus UK tour dates

He’s been busy, that Steven Black, aka Sweet Baboo. The Welsh troubadour has just released his new album, The Boombox Ballads, and recently played no less than five times at…

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