Sydney
Premiere: The Nethered’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ is a refreshing breeze of languid joy and comes ahead of album news.
With gentle background vocals and gentle guitars lapping at the shores, ‘The Long Goodbye’ from ollo’s Alex Crowfoot under the name The Nethered is a fifties-flavoured widescreen epic: easy and languid music that bursts with a melancholic ray of sunshine. We are honoured to premiere this luscious track on Backseat Mafia. ‘The Long Goodbye’ seems …
Track: Sydney songwriter Laura Jean releases the pure pop exuberance of ‘Too Much To Do’ off forthcoming album ‘Amateurs’.
Visceral sweeping strings and piano droplets form the hyperkinetic base to the new single ‘Too Much To Do’ from Sydney songwriter Laura Jean. The track is organic and sprightly, trotting along with a pop verve and effervescence carried by a liquid, serpentine bass line – a glorious, shimmering delivery. Jean says of the track: This …
Track: FLOWERTRUCK are ‘Hopeless’ in happiness: a bright and sparkly ditty that skips with an irrepressible joy. They also become the first Australian band to offer a digital pressing ahead of album release.
On the eve of the release of their new album ‘Partly Cloudy’, out via Spunk! Records / Virgin Music Australia on 2 September 2022, the irrepressible FLOWERTUCK have dropped one more tasty morsel for our delectation in the single ‘Hopeless’. The laid back, dappled sunshine sound of ‘Hopeless’ sparkles with an edgy nervy pace – this is the sound …
Premiere: Maia Marsh’s ‘Big Deal’ is a mesmerising, enchanting single fusing a dream pop fugue with a folk ambience.
Sydney’s Maia Marsh has an impressive form, having been a session musician (lead guitar, bass, vocals) for a number of artists including Huck Hastings who has graced our pages before and Ainsley Farrell, Georgia Mulligan, Georgia Fair and Gloomie. In addition, she was a founding member of dream pop outfit Goodside as well as being …
Track: Eighties powerhouse Noiseworks return after 30 years with the anthemic and dynamic single ‘Heart And Soul’, and all is well with the world. A tour and album will follow.
Noiseworks are a cultural pop rock Australian phenomena and emblematic of a particular home-grown and enigmatic stadium rock in the eighties – even us indie kids respected the fact that Noisework produced the most magnificent power rock anthems of the era, with an indelible ear for melody and a thunderous guitar attack and dynamism that …
Track: Jet City Sports Club wish they had a ‘Green Thumb’ – a sparkling, glittering and delectable morsel of pop brilliance. Plus tour dates released.
Sydney’s Jet City Sports Club have graced our pages before with their delicate brand of jangling pop in ‘She Don’t Need No One’ (see review here) that reminded me of an antipodean version of The Sundays or The Cranberries. Their new single ‘Green Thumb’s continues their shimmering trajectory skywards with its melancholy-infused effervescent jangle and …
Premiere: Darcy Lane’s ‘Bored’: a soft and sultry observation on the ephemeral nature of modern life, plus single launch date and EP announced.
We are very honoured to premiere on Backseat Mafia the new single ‘Bored’ from Eora/Sydney-based alternative-pop artist Darcy Lane. This is a heavenly pop delight which assuages the temporal gloom we face these days with a silky soft and haunting refrain. It contrasts the sweetest pop delivery with an acerbic theme that acutely observes the …
Track: Beware – Sydney’s blistering post punksters Marilyn Maria are ‘Watching America’ as new EP is set for release.
Marilyn Maria supported one of Backseat Mafia’s beloved antipodean bands, the magnificent Infinity Broke, over the weekend and our spy in the crowd was highly impressed by them. It so happens that the band has just released a very explosive and cathartic single, ‘Watching America’, which we are happy to shine a light on. ‘Watching …
Track: Sydney’s Victoria emit another sublime ray of antipodean sunshine with ‘Favourite Teacher’ and announce live dates.
Sydney band Victoria have today released their second single ‘Favourite Teacher’ through legendary producer Wayne Connolly’s label Scenic Drive Records, and they maintain the upward trajectory set by their debut single ‘Creative Frenzy’ (reviewed here). The label supergroup is apt – this is a band consisting of members of seminal bands Youth Group, The Vines, Smudge and …
Track: Huck Hastings collaborates with Charlie Gradon for some harmonic and shimmering ‘Turbulence’, with a launch date cleared for take off.
We here at Backseat Mafia (downunder branch) have been massive fans of Huck Hastings – his 2021 album ‘Cheers To Progress’ (reviewed here) was described as being a cinematic sweep full of love, loss and longing. Having crossed paths on many occasions with fellow Sydney singer/songwriter Charlie Gradon, Hastings has just released a new collaboration …