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Album Review: Tunnel Traffic’s elegiac ‘Take my Power’ is a shimmering and immersive work of art

Adam Hachey is a brilliant and underappreciated song writer whose talent has been lauded by Backseat Mafia since almost our inception when he emerged with the band Meesh, creating a…

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Album Review: Kim Wilde – Pop Don’t Stop (2 CD Greatest Hits & 7 Disc Collector’s Edition)

I first became aware of Kim Wilde on hearing her cover of The Supremes’ hit, You Keep Me Hanging On. I hadn’t actually heard the original, or, in fact, did…

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Track: LoneLady – Former Things

LoneLady has shared the title track of her forthcoming third album ‘Former Things’, out now via Warp Records. Alongside this LoneLady shares a cinematic video directed by Jon Edwards at…

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Premiere: Calista Kazuko releases the smart alt-pop of new single 内 Uchi

Following on from her 2019 debut album, Calista Kazuko has released a new single, 内 Uchi, and we’re delighted to be able to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia…

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Album review: Zoee releases new album ‘Flaw Flower’ and it’s a beautifully imperfect art-pop bouquet

Flaw Flower is the exciting debut LP from London-based musician Zoee, out now via Illegal Data. The new, solo record follows previous collaborations with Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and…

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Track: The Lottery Winners tickle your summertime taste buds with ‘Favourite Flavour’

FLOODED with pure catchiness aimed straight at your grin glands, the completely irrepressible Lottery Winners are straight outta Leigh with a song which summer itself might’ve designed, “Favourite Flavour”. Lyrically…

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Track: Elliot Lee – Drama Queen

Brooklyn based artist Elliot Lee (Photo Finish Records) has shared track ‘Drama Queen’ which is the second single from her forthcoming EP Queen of Nothing which tells the story of ‘Queendom’ and the rise…

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News: Red Rum Club announce an October album with the slick, brassy pop of ‘Nightcalling’

LIVERPOOL’S upbeat popsters Red Rum Club are gonna be swinging into autumn with a new album, in which the sextet are gonna unveil a dastardly plan couched in well-turned tunesmithery…

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News: New label Carrie launches with the Stevie Nicks elegance of Soft Focus’s ‘Easy For You’

MANCHESTER events site GigList is branching out from promoting music into giving it a specific platform of its own with the launch of a sister label, Carrie: an imprint that…

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Track: Wolves sings a sad leftfield pop of the relationship’s end on ‘The Dream That Woke’

WOLVES is how south-east Michigan’s Magdalen Fossum chooses to dress for the world of music, and from behind which lupine mask she brings a delicate, dreamy, chattering pop to the…

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