Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Dope Body – ‘Known Unknown’: gloriously messy highlight from ‘Crack A Light’ gets visuals

NEED a big, dirty, cathartic winter lift? No need to dial. Doctor Dope Body has just the prescription for you. They’ve pulled what’s arguably the standout track from their most…

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NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’

BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes…

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TRACKS: Erland Cooper – ‘Landform’: a digital companion to the Orkney trilogy

ORCADIAN soundscaper and composer Erland Cooper has today released one final digitally streamed companion piece to accompany his beautiful Orkney Triptych. Take a listen below. Its a seven-track, 35-minute ambient…

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TRACK: Late Night Final – ‘Thank You’: J. Willgoose steps out from his broadcasting role

YOU ALMOST certainly know J. Willgoose as one of the bespectacled whizzkids behind the ever brilliant Public Service Broadcasting. But now he’s decided to invest in a little extra-curricular activity…

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TRACK: Claude Cooper’s ‘Tangerine Dreams’ 7″ launches Friendly Recordings

OK, OK. Two things. Firstly, do you like a little jazziness to your grooves? Nah, scrub that. Do you like a lot? Do you like a double bass line so…

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NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’

ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New…

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TRACK: The Native – ‘Frontline’: airy third from Plymothian risers

THEY’RE barely into their twenties; with the ‘rona gobbling up all the live fun, they’ve yet to do any scale of national tour at all; yet with just a brace…

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NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics

BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for…

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TRACK: Rival Consoles – ‘Articulation (Midori Hano remix)’ preludes Erased Tapes EPs CD

RYAN LEE WEST, who creates beautiful and properly, actually intelligent dance music that folds softly across to pulsing ambience, isn’t someone to tarnish the bright beauty of his creations by…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Cheshire – ‘Fractal Future Plays’: a sweeping psych pop set

Fractal Future Plays sits in a fine line of albums which admit psych to their blend, admire its cosmic clear sight rather than its sensual flood; the romance, the seduction, the perfume of the other just behind the flimsiest curtain

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