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See: New project from flautist Gina Izzo brings the listener “into what is wanted”

For many classically-trained musicians, performing at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Jazz Standard are the pinnacle of career success. Having achieved this before the age of 35, Gina Izzo…

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See: The lyric video for the tumbling odd-folk of Yves Jarvis’ ‘Body Of Work’

YVES JARVIS is the artist and autodidact Jean-Sébastien Audet who, in a pseudo-Bill Callahanesque move, came out from behind his Un Blonde facemask after 2016’s excellent Good Will Come To You (according…

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See: Josh Halper – ‘Honest Feeling’: Dear Life’s alt.country troubadour’s gone fishin’

FOLLOWING last year’s rather lovely album for Dear Life, Alrightnik, Nashville’s guitar essayist Josh Halper has decided to reprise the closing track visually. He’s released a brilliantly conceived and funny…

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See: Årabrot’s “Kinks Of The Heart” on display with new clip. [NSFW]

Industrialized post-punk duo Årabrot are certainly having a productive 2021. Ahead of the release of Norwegian Gothic, due out through Pelagic Records on April 9th, the combined direction of Kjetil…

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See: METZ become Kings of the Road with “Sugar Pill.”

Say what you will about METZ, the noisy Canadian post-punk three-piece currently signed to Sub Pop Records, but they are consistent. They have been across four studio albums now –…

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SEE: Gary, Indiana game break with Alien 3

Manchester electronic post-punk outfit Gary, Indiana seem very much attuned to the habits of many bored-at-home UK residents, with the release of “Alien 3“, out now through Fire Talk Records.…

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SEE: BLACK (W)HOLE – THE SHIFT

Austrian experimentalist Black (W)hole is already getting the leftfield brigade here at Backseat Mafia excited – the release of their forthcoming album Strange Worlds on March 5th has seen a…

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SEE: CHAOS E.T. SEXUAL – TOMORROW, PRUDENCE

2020 was, for want of better words, a real piece of work. Despite everything though, musically there were a few bright spots – one of which in his writer’s humble…

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SEE: The animation for Kratos Himself’s ‘Shift’: complex beatz atmospheres

KRATOS HIMSELF is the singular musical vision of Jethro Kratos Hopmans, whose mission is to meld icy electronics, potent cinematic beats and an expansive library of sound recordings in order…

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SEE: The animation for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s ‘If Not Now, When?’

TWO THINGS about New Zealand’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: one. They’re immense, ass ‘n’ tousled locks-shaking fun. Two. Christ, they’re prolific. Their cup of creativity runneth o’er. Twenty-three…

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