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Track: The Electorate release the single ‘Skeleton’ from their impressive debut album ‘You Don’t Have Time to Stay Lost’

‘You Don’t Have Time to Stay Lost’ is the outstanding debut album from Sydney outfit The Electorate – appearing in my list of favourite antipodean albums for 2020. I described…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jim Ghedi – ‘In The Furrows Of Common Place’: a bold, proud album of working class folk

In The Furrows Of Common Place is a bold and proud album of working class folk. It bears witness with an unflinching melodious anger - it's the first essential album of 2021

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ALBUM REVIEW: John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas and Greg Coates – ‘Witch Egg’

There's so many ideas in Witch Egg, from so many genres and eras: mod, krautrock, free jazz, even acid jazz; they're arrived at, explored at once, captured, moved on from. It speaks much of the restless creativity at the heart of this, John Dwyer. It's quite a journey for a fringe music head

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Track: Bryan Estepa: Trick of the Light

Sydney musician Bryan Estepa has impressive song-writing style that is certainly Beatlesesque in delivery, while maintaining his own distinctive delivery and style. His new single ‘Trick of the Light’ showcases…

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TRACK: Graywave – ‘Before’: shoegaze nocturne teases for EP

JUST before Christmas, Backseat Mafia had the absolute privilege of premiering “Like Heaven”, a brilliant surge of dream pop haze and melody from Graywave, the musical project of the West…

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TRACK: The Damn Straights – ‘Blow It Up’: one minute fifty-eight of lyrical fire

THE DAMN STRAIGHTS: who they? I hear you say. Well, as if proving gestalt theory – if you’ll allow me to don my professor specs a sec, that a transactional…

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TRACK: Renée Reed – ‘Fast One’: potent, dreamlike alt.folk from Louisiana

HAILING from Lafayette, Louisiana, Renée Reed has signed for Austin label Keeled Scales and released a single, the impressionistic, delightfully dreamy alt.folk of “Fast One”. Listen below. It’s a many-faceted thing…

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Lizzie Reid – ‘Been Thinking About You’: jazzy swing with real heart, soul and devil-may-care

LIZZIE REID, the young Glaswegian songwriter who is a massive, massive new talent – no dissent now at the back, this is just how it is – has been melting…

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Home Counties – ‘Modern Yuppies’: angular punk-funk takes on the consumerist dream

HOME COUNTIES who, despite the name, are a five-piece happy to gaze askance at all the weird doings of modernity from the safety of Bristol, release their third, three-minute dose…

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TRACK: Felid – ‘Midnight Lover’: Bristol producer brings languid piano grace – his debut EP’s out now

AFTER initially making his mark as exactly half of cool electropop duo Mauwe, Bristol-based, South African-born Felid, aka Jay Rodger, struck out on his own during 2020 with a clutch…

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