Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Psymon Spine – ‘Confusion’: glimmering psych-disco heralds February album

IF YOU’RE absolutely beloved of that glimmering, du-jour intersection where hazy, technicolour psych meets sweeping synths with a healthy dose of funk – y’know out there deep in there, where…

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NEWS: The Orielles announce live stream show from Hebden Bridge

HALIFAX’s lovely, all-conquering The Orielles are determined to bring a little light into our pervading winter with the announcement that they’re putting on a live-stream show from The Trades Club,…

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PREMIERE: See Daisy Coburn’s ‘Fire’: A flamin’ hot tune from new Austerity signing

BRIGHTON’S Austerity Records, the up and coming label home already to the dark-edged dream pop stylings of the lovely Winter Gardens, is pleased to announce another worthy addition to its…

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TRACK: Hear the pastoral loveliness of Louis Philippe & The Night Mail’s ‘The Mighty Owl’; live-streamed performance announced!

MASTERFUL musician Louis Philippe, él Records aesthete and scribe of the beautiful game, has been away far, far too long; which is why here at Backseat Mafia we’re damn excited…

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PREMIERE: Disco Zombies – ‘Drums Over London’: see the video for a track from Optic Nerve’s forthcoming deluxe punk reissue

YOU’VE got to applaud Optic Nerve; the Preston label that reissues some of the most excellent lost cult classics of British punk and indie culture (am I alone in finding…

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TRACK: Fujiya & Miyagi – ‘Feeling The Effects (Of Saturday Night)’

BRIGHTON’S cool groovers Fujiya & Miyagi used what we can now refer to as period of history known as Lockdown One wisely, and kept on creating. They dug back into…

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SEE: Emma Miller – ‘Set Me Down’: piano-led lusciousness from Elgin

EMMA MILLER is a folk singer-songwriter with a very delicate and potent touch to her tunesmithery who, as so many of us do, left for the bright lights of London…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Tom Joshua

TOM JOSHUA is a young singer-songwriter from Stockton-on-Tees, who’s set a course to seduce us with sweet and emotive, well-sculpted guitar and piano-led songs such as the autumnal fragility of…

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SEE: Satoshi Kanno – ‘Elastic’: morphing IDM with enveloping visuals

A MULTI-media artist based in Tokyo, Satoshi Kanno has been splicing delicate skeins of noise with with tough beats since 2013. He’s appeared on a number of compilations, including Nenormalizm’s…

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SEE: The trippy visuals for Lost Horizons’ ‘One For Regret’; London date announced

LOST HORIZONS, the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, of former 4AD labelmates Dif Juz, are set to release their new ultra-collaborative double album, In Quiet Moments, on…

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