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ALBUM REVIEW: Osees – ‘Protean Threat’: John Dwyer trips us further into prog-tinged fuzz garage

JOHN DWYER’S Osees. I mean, they’re an absolute force of nature; a vivacious, fiery, disciplined, fun, piledriving force. If you’ve never seen them, by jiminy you need to: kinda meh…

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TRACK: hear Mort Garson’s ‘Ode To An African Violet’: spacey, deconstructed Moog funk for your flowers

YOU’VE never really heard Mort Garson, you say; heard the name, never quite caught up with any of his stuff; anyway, it’s rock hard to get hold of, isn’t it?…

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TRACK: Summer Heart’s ‘Good Together’: pristine dreampop announces new label home

SUMMER HEART, the dreampop recording alias of Swede David Alexander, has announced his signing for Icons Creating Evil Art with the release of a sweet and soaring new synthpop tune,…

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TRACK: Edwin Arzu – ‘Over’: a pristine soul torchsong

IF YOU have a penchant for pristine R’n’B pop songwriting of a very fine order, here’s an upcoming name for you: NYC-born, LA-resident Edwin Arzu. Born and raised in the…

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TRACK: Ana Roxanne’s ‘Suite Pour L’invisible’: haunting and lush

KRANKY. It’s a label that this unerring step with beautiful and complex ambient music, one which it’s been plying now for a quarter-century and more. The Texan imprint has just…

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EP REVIEW: The Illness – ‘Descending’/’Phrases Redacted’: alt rock gets the tronica feels on cassette

HERE at Backseat Mafia, we’re really quite fond of The Illness. No, god, not that one – not the year-destroying one; we’re talking the Transpennine band who’ve been something of…

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SEE: the cute-as guitar pop of Fever’s ‘Honesty’; rescheduled dates confirmed

HULL’S Fever usher in the end of the summer with a guitar pop choon soaring for the sky in a simple plea for “Honesty”. It’s proper sweet. Have a listen…

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TRACK: Landshapes – ‘The Ring’: first single teases November album

LANDSHAPES, the London four-piece with a nifty line in synth-driven indie psychedelia, have readied the third long-playing instalment of their recording career for your delectation after five years away. Following…

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NEWS: Hot Chip announce ‘LateNightTales’ mix, release Velvets cover

HOT CHIP. I can’t think of any other British band since New Order who have so straddled the indie-dance divide so successfully; and with such love from us listeners. They have…

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TRACK: Garcia Peoples – ‘Crown of Thought’: an Airplane-style psych jam

NEW JERSEY’S Garcia Peoples, who’s latest long-playing foray Nightcap At Wit’s End is out on October 9th, have just released the second single to be lifted from that LP in…

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