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‘Shout It To The Wind’ – The Lovetones return with a delicious, atmospheric intensity – Backseat Mafia
The ever dependable and utterly iconic The Lovetones are back to delicately entice our ears with their signatory jingle jangle auditory salve. Their new single ‘Shout It To The Wind’ positively shimmers like the light on a lake in mid-summer. What better way to launch 2025 is there than with this slow burning anthem where singer Matt Tow’s velvet baritone voice takes the front seat, with a crystalline 12-string guitar bed to luxuriate in. Dripping with a yearning melancholy, the track has a melodic flow that seethes with a burning intensity like a sparking fuse that ultimately explodes. There are hints of REM in the instrumentation with the delicate guitar…
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Brigitte Bardini is no ‘Fool’ as she unveils another ethereal track that positively glows with intensity. – Backseat Mafia
There’s almost an operatic gloss to singer/songwriter Brigitte Bardini‘s vocals in her dreamy new single ‘Fool’: a floating and ethereal delivery above an aquatic bubbling instrumental that is cool and urbane. There is a sixties laid back quality to the track with the arpeggiated strings that swell in the distance – a song to be played in a convertible E-type Jaguar driving through the Italian alps in the summertime. The aching melancholy is threaded throughout with Bardini describing the track as a captivating admission of loneliness in the face of abandonment. Bardini continues to distinguish herself from a crowded field – her songs have a distinctive feel infused with a…
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Nina Leo has a ‘Blind Spot’ and it is a delicious barbed wire-wrapped piece of cotton candy wool that burns with intensity. – Backseat Mafia
We are absolutely honoured to bring you a first listen to the new single from Naarm based, Ngambri (Canberra) born songwriter and musician Nina Leo, as well as the immersive video for the track. Leo (named after her middle name and star sign) has produced something that has a visceral and raw edge, a cotton wool vocal delivery wrapped in barbed-wire that prowls like a caged tiger – a slow burning fuse that explodes into something anthemic and statuesque. Her delivery has the force and impact of singers like P.J. Harvey or Sharon Van Etten with a cinematic production. Leo says of the track: I always write songs based on…
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‘Something I Do’ – YAGKI delivers a languid yearning song that burns with intensity and soul. – Backseat Mafia
YAGKI, the artist formerly known as Sarah Yagki (and no doubt still is by family and friends) is a firm favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, and she has just released another thrilling, visceral track ‘Something I Do’. ‘Something I Do’ confirms YAGKI as an important talent in the music scene: it has a languorous, luxurious sound augmented by YAGKI’s velvet vocals and dynamic presence. There is a blush of R&B, a little soul and a little indie pop. The catchy chorus enters the frame with an uplifting sweep and the track is steeped in yearning and desire, an inflection of melancholia. That delicate sense of vulnerability…
