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Chris Sawle

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Sometime scribe and inveterate crate-digger, adoring all things C86, psych, soundtrack, breakbeat, electronica and post-rock from the toe of West Cornwall.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Lee Fields & The Expressions – ‘Big Crown Vaults Vol.1 – Lee Fields & The Expressions’

  • November 30, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
BIG CROWN. Big. Crown. Roll that collocation of words around your mouth; if you’re a real music lover, you know these guys, Leon Michels and Danny Akalepse, are indeed proper…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Skinshape – ‘Arrogance Is The Death Of Men’: chilled guitar odysseys

  • November 30, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
Arrogance Is The Death Of Men is such a different creature to Skinshape's last, Umoja. It's got that guitar thing going that Will does so wonderfully; lyrically, you can hear the catharsis of this year, the trials and tribulations. It's a lovely record full of emotion and guitar that helps usher in the end of this year. Win.
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TRACK: Sturle Dagsland – ‘Harajuku’: the new prince of intense, avant-garde pop

  • November 29, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
DO YOU remember the first time you heard The Sugarcubes, Sigur Rós? How music seemed to have subtly recombined in weird and exciting new ways that spoke of another direction?…
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TRACK: Bastian Benjamin – ‘Threshold’: bright, organic ‘tronica

  • November 29, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
EXPERIMENTAL audio-visual producer Bastian Benjamin, born and based in the small city of Deventer, in the Netherlands, some 100km east towards the German border, has just dropped the bright, organic,…
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SEE: Busty and the Bass – ‘Eddie’; cool Canadian jazzers also announce live stream

  • November 29, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
MONTREAL’S crisp, sprawling (there’s eight of ’em) soul-jazz outfit Busty and the Bass have just released the video for the title track from their August album, “Eddie”. We reviewed the…
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TRACK: Mandrake Handshake – ‘Gonkulator’: Oxford dectet debut the new acid

  • November 28, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
THEY may be one of the most populous bands you’ve seen this side of My Life Story and The Polyphonic Spree in their pomp – but Oxford psych dectet Mandrake…
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NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’

  • November 28, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their…
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NEWS: M. Ward announces Billie Holiday covers album; hear ‘For Heaven’s Sake’

  • November 28, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
YOUR humble scribe has loved Portland’s M. Ward since right back in the days of The Transfiguration of St Vincent – his beautiful 2003 album full of his mellifluous voice,…
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PREMIERE: Modern Hinterland – ‘California (August 16th 1998)’: some much-needed Americana sun

  • November 27, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
CHRIS HORNSBY’S Americana outfit Modern Hinterland are all set to release their new album, Diving Bell, on January 29th – almost a year to the day since their last, The…
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SEE: Adam Beattie – ‘Lovers Old & Lovers New’: a sweet yearn for lost nightspots

  • November 27, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
ADAM BEATTIE is a musician with a deep, noir romance beating in his chest, a romance tinged with the sadness of what we have lost; and this is particularly illustrated…
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