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Album Review: Oh crap! There’s a new Evil Blizzard album

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Album Review: GNOD – La Mort Du Sens

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Album review: TEKE::TEKE – ‘Shirushi’: a deliciously wonky, delectably trippy psych debut

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USER have been together around six years and ‘Mira Imposta’ is their third album. Their oeuvre is a fascinating mix of throbbing Euro disco with pure pop sensibilities and an electronic snakiness that shimmers and slithers through the ears like a delicious unguent. And in this album, there is a heart of brooding gothic darkness …

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8.9Album ReviewsBackseat DownunderMusicNewsPremiere

Not to be confused with Brisbane surfgaze band The Double Happiness, Double Happiness is the work of Naarm/Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist Sam Jemsek and we are ever so pleased to be able to premiere the debut album ‘Derealisation’. ‘Derealisation’ is a dark gothic delight that hums over a throbbing electronica that courses through its sonic veins. …

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Trentemøller Returns with a Dream and a Scream

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In exciting news, one of Australia’s greatest music exports, The Church, has just announced an Australian tour that will feature all their singles: a stunning retrospective of their storied career. We have covered this band extensively here at Backseat Mafia and can attest that in their current form, they have never played better. The creativity …

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Oxford Art Factory’s main room is no stranger to swallowing revelers and spitting them back out in sweaty, chaotic tangles. Low ceilings, packed-in bodies, and just enough space for a proper melty mosh. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets know exactly how to wield that energy, and their set at OAF felt like a swirling, neon-lit vortex of …

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Words: Jim F / Photos: Huw Williams / Jim FAfter working taxing six-hour Sunday (yes, Sunday) that left me drained and irritable, the prospect of attending a gig seemed daunting. Yet, the allure of Melin Melyn performing at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club was irresistible; had it been any other band, I might have opted for …

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For over fifteen years, Night Beats—helmed by Texas native Danny Lee Blackwell—has been channeling a hypnotic fusion of vintage R&B, psych, and garage rock. His latest single, Behind The Green Door, feels like a continuation of that lineage, yet also marks a new chapter. Released today as the A-side of a forthcoming 7” due out …

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Fronted by Mary Shannon of Meres, Launceston band Dvrkworld deliver an icy, glacial form of shoegaze that seems intrinsically linked to the wild terrain and the weather in the southern isle at the very edge of the world. Formed in early 2023 by Mary Shannon and Drew Farrant-Jayet and later joined by Shawn Arnold and Ryan …

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Backseat DownunderMusicNewsTrack / Video

I can’t believe it’s been over a year since Psychedelic Porn Crumpets’ ‘Fronzoli’ ruled over the speakers of this house. The last album from Australia’s favourite psychedelic garage rock group felt like it barely left rotation, like a constant background noise pushing us through the grind of summer 2023 and definitely impressing the neighbours. The …

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BB Sabina’s latest single, ‘Multitude,’ is a track that lingers. It’s nearly seven minutes long, and honestly, it might not be long enough. Moving through trip-hop’s shadowy corners, it picks up the tension of post-rock and absolutely glows with hypnotism. Beth Uhe’s voice drifts through like a lone ballerina, upstaged by nothing else. It’s layered …

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