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Album Review: Louie Short – Omw 4ev
Toronto / Los Angeles artist Louie Short has giving us an album where “The genre is songs” and where he is the sole creator on this collection of DIY aesthetics. An album about love and the glorious feeling of living in the moment, forever. Short comments: “People are drawn to beginnings and endings, whether it be …
See: Rainy Miller examines the small losses of our everyday in ‘Death At The TV Dinner’
PRESTON’S Rainy Miller roams the Ribbleside Lancashire city, with its proud modernist architecture seeking its tales and bringing them to life with a breakbeat-informed modern pop, full of atmosphere; a modern Alan Sillitoe of West Lancashire, he peers through the curtains at the real lives being lived. He’s just dropped a video for the future …
Track: New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma release the delightful melodic shimmery pop of ‘Mona Lisa’ and announce tour
New Zealand pop merchants extraordinaire Yumi Zouma have just released the absolutely shimmering track ‘Mona Lisa’: a sparkling, shining wonder that exudes a sort of melancholic ray of light across the skies like the elusive Aurora Australis. With hints of saxophone in the distance and a rousing chorus, this is pop mastery at its finest. …
Premiere: Overland Inn gives us an exclusive listen to their brilliant new single ‘Le Hibou’
Czech-based French duo Overland Inn have had a very productive couple of months (quite literally: they have just welcomed a new baby into the world this week – congratulations!) and the momentum and productivity continues unabated with the release later today of a new single through the inimitable Brisbane False Peaks label. We are very …
Premiere: Dela Paz releases new track Favorite Dress
Mexican-American singer-songwriter Dela Paz returns with a new single Favorite Dress , made in collaboration with beatmaker and producer Wolfgang Pander, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. Of the song, Dela Paz told us “Favorite Dress portrays a difficult stage in a relationship as a couple …
EP: Flowerkid’s ‘Everyone Has A Breaking Point’ charts a poignant journey of pain, growth and resilience over perfect pop structures.
The Sydney prodigy Flowerkid (twenty-year old singer, songwriter and producer Flynn Jorge Sant) has just released his debut EP ‘Everyone Has A Breaking Point’ and it is a stark reflection of a three year journey Sant has experienced coming out as transgender. Filled at times with a bleak vision of toxic masculinity, suicidal ideation and struggle, there is …
Track: Approachable Members Of Your Local Community suggest you ‘Just Say It’ in a luminescent burst of sunshine pop, while announcing an East Coast Australian tour
When writing my long planned magnum opus on the chemical formula for a jolly good pop song, due reference will be made to tunes such as ‘Just Say It’ from the wonderfully named Approachable Members Of Your Local Community. The present ingredients in this bubbly, effervescent track are a dash of sweetness (but not so …
Track: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss reimagine Bert Jansch’s ‘It Don’t Bother Me’
With the release of their second album together due this month, Plant and Krauss have shared the final taster from the album with their version of Bert Jansch’s ‘It Don’t Bother Me’. On the inclusion of “It Don’t Bother Me” on Raise The Roof, Robert Plant says: “I’ve been a big follower of Bert Jansch’s work …
Live Review: Anna Ash at Base Camp With Support From Elaine Palmer
First gig back, after the Covid nightmare, at one of my favourite venues Base Camp in Middlesbrough. A quaint venue with huge potential. The tables where laid out with candle burning for what is to be a special night of gentle country rock courtesy of local lass Elaine Palmer and American country girl Anna Ash. …
Album Review: Pluto Jonze releases a multicoloured universe of pop in his vibrant album ‘Awe’
The new album ‘Awe’ by esteemed Sydney-based artist Pluto Jonze (Hey Geronimo) is ten dollops of sweet ethereal goodness, filled with indelible melodies and dreamy, cloudy and hypnotic soundscapes. Jonze displays an ear for melody brushed with a degree of theatricality which makes for a thoroughly enjoyable listen. This is an ambitious album presented in widescreen with …