Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Blue States – ‘Plain Sight’ feat. Rachael Dadd – a step into folktronica from Andy Dragazis ahead of his sixth album

BLUE STATES, the lovely downbeatz project of Sussex’s Andy Dragazis, is following last year’s necessary and expanded repressing of his classic album Nothing Changes Under The Sun with another peek…

View Post

View Post

Premiere: The Jazz Butcher – ‘Time’: RIP, Pat, but there’s one final album in store and a celebratory gig in Camden this weekend

THE JAZZ BUTCHER is one of those artists who make indiepop kids of a certain generation go misty eyed, and with good reason; Pat Fish, the man behind the jazz…

View Post

View Post

See: The ghostly soundtrackery of The Arteries of New York City’s ‘Capable’; the album’s on its way to a full release

NO, AND you’d be forgiven for thinking it with the name they trade under, but the experimental ambient duo The Arteries of New York City isn’t some semi-psychogeographical project arising…

View Post

View Post

Track: Spanish ambient explorers Suso Sáiz and Menhir combine for the deep, pristine drift of ‘Alike’ ahead of their album for Spirituals

HE MAY Not be quite as familiar a name on these shores, but in Spain Suso Sáiz is something of an Eno figure; a pioneer of ambient and minimalist music…

View Post

View Post

See: DITZ get fiery ‘n’ wiry on declamatory new single, ‘The Warden’, extend their tour into next year

BRIGHTON’S DITZ, who, on more than one occasion this year we’ve found the overwhelming urge to catapult into the perspiring throng to, only to find our living rooms sadly lacking…

View Post

View Post

See: Raveloe finds escape in the fine, rolling folk-rock of ‘Catkins’ – she’s so one to watch in ’22

IT’S THAT time of year when those of us who spill ink about music begin to look forward; the old year nearly done and captured and bottled barring end-of-year lists…

View Post

View Post

Track: Erin Rae glides into an album and tour in the new year on the psych-country of ‘Candy & Curry’

WITH a sweet, hook-laden but straighter country-pop number, “Modern Woman”, dropping last month, Nashville’s Erin Rae has revealed a more gossamer, delicate psych-folk side to her forthcoming third album in…

View Post

View Post

See: Diamondtown bring the chiming, ‘gazey ‘Dream All Day’ from the Nova Scotia waterside

DIAMONDTOWN come springing outta the fertile underground scene of Nova Scotia, where the scene has something of an Elephant 6 thing goin’ on, members freely interchanging and shifting between the…

View Post

View Post

See: Baltimore’s Tomato Flower unveil the woozy, utopian pop of ‘Red Machine’ ahead of their debut EP

BALTIMORE’S Tomato Flower – well, they’re pretty darn cute, truth be told, on the evidence of their debut single, just out now: the bright and woozy, retro-synth informed pop of…

View Post

View Post

EP review: Shida Shahabi – ‘Alvaret (Original Soundtrack)’: Stockholm composer soundtracks a short film of domestic tragedy with drone warmth and acuity

WE LAST encountered that Stockholm-based talent Shida Shahabi in these pages just over a year ago, when she released the soundtrack EP for Jennifer Rainsford’s subtle sci-fi short Lake On…

View Post

Pages