See: Sir Was releases new video for Revoke
With his track ‘In the midst’ all over the airwaves right now, and his debut album ‘Digging a tunnel’ due to drop via City Slang on March 10th, Joel Wästberg…
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Say Psych: Premiere, Flöjttjola & Death 1 by Hills
I know that there are a lot of you out there who are just mad for Swedish band Hills. You (we) love the band’s amazing sound and a string of…
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Say Psych: Premiere, Fyre Balls by Ball
A few weeks ago I did a playlist of great Swedish psych music (here). Had I known about this new single from new band Ball I’m pretty sure I would…
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Say Psych: Playlist 19/2016
Reviewing a couple of Swedish-related albums over the last week (Drakkar Nowhere and Centralstödet) reminded me of how many great bands have come from that country in the past. Here are fifteen…
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Say Psych: Album Review, Hjärndimma by Centralstödet
Centralstödet is yet another band that is new to me, and yet another band from Sweden that has just blown me away as soon as I heard it. Hailing from Gothenburg it…
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Track: I am Karate – Swayze
Here at Backseat Mafia we’re not the sort of people to be duped by what’s supposedly cutting edge and fashionable right now – you know, the sort of icy, cool…
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See: Goat release new video for I sing in silence – plus new European tour dates
Mysterious Swedish psych rockers Goat have released a new video for their forthcoming single, I sing in Silence, which is out via Rocket Recordings on May 27th. Turning away from…
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Say Psych: Meet, Flowers Must Die
It is almost a standard opening paragraph about how strong the Swedish ‘psych’ music scene is at the moment, but when you have a list of bands that includes Hills,…
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Say Psych: Album Review, ‘Horse Stories’ by Josefin Ohrn + The Liberation
The vast majority music that I listen to is, for want of a better word, dirty. It usually has lots of fuzzed up guitar and other effects: sonics that are…
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Track: Sudakistan – Concrete Djungle
We’re big fans of Stockholm-based latin psych rockers Sudakistan here Backseat Mafia, and so we’re eagerly anticipating the bands forthcoming debut album Caballo Negro, which drops on November 20th via…
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