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News: Brisbane’s dream pop weaver Hatchie announces new album ‘Giving The World Away’, an Australian/ North American tour and casts a spell with her new single ‘Quicksand’.

The sun always shines brighter when Brisbane dream pop shoegaze queen Hatchie releases another sonic gemstone, and she strikes again with new single ‘Quicksand’. Hatchie, the moniker of Harriette Pilbeam,…

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Album Review: Pretty City sign out for now with a magnificent and brilliant album ‘Out The Inside’

Years of touring and personal demons rent Melbourne band Pretty City and tore them apart, but despite the trauma and challenges, the band collectively agreed to release their final collection…

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Track: Revolution Above Disorder unveil ‘Scream Quietly’: a haunting, enigmatic cover of the ethereal Television Personalities track.

Revolution Above Disorder is the work of Dubliner Stephen Nicholas White (The Orange Kyte, House of Dolls, The Subterranean Satellite Band, Magic Shoppe), who is currently based in Vancouver. We reviewed…

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Live Review: Nothing / Bambara / Midwife – Mercy Lounge, Nashville – 12.12.2021

This was my first experience shooting for Backseat Mafia and I was pretty excited to shoot for them. It was also my first time getting my photo pass for a…

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Backseat Downunder: A Personal Top Fifty List of Favourite Australian/New Zealand Albums and Singles from 2021

This has been another extraordinary year which has seen musicians reach peak creativity locked away in their bedrooms, recording studios, recording studios in their bedrooms and all manner of locations…

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Track: New Zealand’s enigmatic T.G. Shand gifts us with an exquisite new track ‘Seats’ for the festive season and announces new album for 2022

Ōtautahi/Christchurch resident Annemarie Duff, formerly of the legendary Melbourne shoegaze band Miniatures (on the iconic Saint Marie Records label) is T.G. Shand: the producer of some of the most dreamy velvet textured shoegaze dream…

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Album Review: End Scene’s debut album ‘All My Ghosts’ is a masterpiece that jangles with a dark pop intent and an indelible shimmer.

There is a recognisable antipodean jingle jangle thrum in Sydney band End Scene‘s debut album ‘All My Ghosts’. Essentially, End Scene is James Jennings and Tom Dufficy and together they have…

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Track: bdrmm’s ‘Port’ gets some loving electro remix action from Working Men’s Club – come trance out

IT’S AN excellent, mouthwatering battle of two very cred, very excellent Yorkshire bands, duking it out. In the left corner, grapple fans, we have Hull’s bdrmm, the premier next now…

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News: New Zealand’s Mild Orange, purveyors of shimmering dream pop magic, announce new album and release double singles ‘What’s Your Fire?’ and ‘Hollywood Dreams’ as a tasty aperitif

There is nothing balmy or equable about Mild Orange‘s musical output. This year has seen a stream of the most sparkling, dreamy pop magic from one of New Zealand’s most…

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Track: Terra Pines ‘Harp On’: a dreamy and celestial wander through the clouds

After pleasantly assaulting us with their thumping track ‘Downbeat’ (see my review here) , Brisbane band Terra Pines have pressed ever so gently on the brakes and released the dreamy…

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