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TRACK: {An} EeL, David Sait, Friendly Rich – ‘The Dainty Dandies’: hail the new princes of Nordine surreality

THE ABSURD and surreal is a strand of music that brings much joy and not a little brain-tickling to your humble correspondent here; and while there’s a grand old tradition…

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TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry

FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse,…

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TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series

FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines,…

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Track: ALA.NI And Adrian Younge – ‘Lament for Emmett Till’

Memorialising the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till’s death (August 28th), ALA.NI is releasing the Adrian Younge produced single ‘Lament for Emmett Till’. The song is a reimagined version of ALA.NI’s…

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Track: Ghostpoet – I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep

Along with announcing a much anticipated UK live tour, Ghostpoet has also unveiled the haunting video to the title track of his critically latest album, “I Grow Tired But Dare…

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Track: IDLES – Mr Motivator

IDLES lead the way in explosive passionate punk, and we here at Backseat Mafia have always closely followed their upward trajectory with the greatest of joy. Now, deep in the…

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INTERVIEW: One Day After School / Dead Sea Poems soundtrack

On September 30th West Yorkshire Post-Rock influenced band One Day, After School will perform their specially commissioned soundtrack to poet Simon Armitage’s The Dead Sea Poems. We caught up with…

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Track: Kojey Radical – Open Hand

We’ve long been fans of rising poet/rapper Kojey Radical, evidenced by the blistering stripped back session he did for us earlier in the year. After supporting Young Fathers on their…

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Video: Kojey Radical records an exclusive version of Bambu exclusively for Backseat Mafia

On tour with Young Fathers currently, we managed to catch up with Ghanaian-British poet Kojey Radical who recorded an exclusive version of his latest track Bambu (I Don’t Really Worry…

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