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TRACK: Suburban Living – ‘Indigo Kids’: halcyon dreampop uplift

WITH an album in the can for EggHunt Records, the Virginia label best known for bringing Lucy Dacus to the attention of the music world, Philly’s dreampoppers Suburban Living look…

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Track: Eep – Hogar

It seems shoegaze/dream pop bands are flourishing in the south of the US at the moment. We were highly impressed by Tan Cologne from New Mexico, and now Eep, from…

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Track: Border. – Double Rainbow

Here at Backseat Mafia we have written a number of times about the creative petri dish in Italy over the last few years, and this phenomena shows no sign of…

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SEE: The Orielles’ ‘7th Dynamic Goo’ gets animated

HALIFAX’S finest, indie-funksters The Orielles, have released a brilliant animation to accompany “7th Dynamic Goo”, from their second LP, Disco Volador. The video was directed by Berlin-based Stacie Ant. The…

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TRACK: Wheelup’s ‘Ndebele’ is full of polyrhythmic goodness

DANNY WHEELER, who creates fine broken beatz for Brighton’s ever-cracking Tru Thoughts as WheelUp, has released a new digital-only four-tracker, The Ndebele EP. Underpinned on a fine jazzy keys vamp,…

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Her Songs’ ‘Lost A Little’ is a graceful, global soul cut

HER SONGS is a worldwide female collective working across the creative disciplines. The collective consists of London-based Dane Marie Dahlstrom, Brooklyn-based Colombian Dani Murcia,New Zealand-based Emily C Browning, French Londoner…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan reveals ‘Pigeons’ from new album

IT TURNS out he wasn’t joking. Last week’s announcement of a new Bill Callahan record in September included a cryptic passage, chatty and hyperbolic, stating: “Ten Whole Weeks until Gold…

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TRACK: GANG OF FOUR – ‘Day Turns to Night’: in tribute to Andy

LOOKING back, perhaps the first real portent of the way this year would unfold more sourly than most was our loss of that architect of the scratchy, jagged riff and…

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TRACK: Jaga Jazzist’s “Spiral Era” remix is heading for other galaxies

GRADUALLY and cultishly, Norwegian octet Jaga Jazzist have been building probably the most interesting and wide-ranging catalogue in the modern jazz sphere; wholly unafraid of leaping genre fences, taking and…

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TRACK: Race Banyon’s ‘Pressure Off’ drinks from the deep house well

EDDIE JOHNSTON, who is carving out something of a name for himself in his native New Zealand with a brace of contrasting musical identities, has released a rather tasty little…

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