Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Josephine Foster’s take on Daniel Blumberg’s ‘On & On’: reinterpretations album next month

YOU HAVE to say, Daniel Blumberg is one of the absolutely most interesting, unconventional songwriters to emerge on the British scene in many a long year. His album from a…

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SEE: Andy Bell – ‘Cherry Cola (Pye Corner Audio remix)’

AS his GLOK side-project shows, Andy Bell is a shoegazing legend who really isn’t afraid to embrace the tronica; in the spirit of which, the latest single he’s released from…

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TRACK: Reid Willis – ‘Finger To Pulse’: dark tech from new Mesh soundscaper

MESH, the exploratory techno label run by the brilliant Max Cooper, has added another complex and textural talent to its roster with the signing of American soundscaper Reid Willis, who’s…

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TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘The Invention Of The Moon’: fragile wonder from Jóhann Jóhannsson collaborator

YOU MAY or may not be enough of an aficionado of modern composition to have come across Rutger Hoedemaekers, who’s recently signed to FatCat’s superb leftfield and experimental modern composition…

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SEE: Alex Jayne – ‘Pictures’: grand introspection about letting go

LONDON songstress Alex Jayne, who’s released a triptych of potent, observational pop nuggets this year, is drawing down the curtain on 2020 with one final single, “Pictures”, again penned from…

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NEWS: Neil Cowley announces solo album for February; hear ‘She Lives In Golden Sands’

BRITISH pianist Neil Cowley, who released a septet of albums sitting astride the point where jazz begins to shade into modern composition and tronica over a period of ten years…

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PREMIERE: Farmer Dave & The Wizards of the West – ‘Right Vibration’: Beachwood Sparks man right back in the psych saddle

FARMER DAVE SCHER may be better known to you from the string of excellent bands he’s both been in and collaborated with down the years. He was a member of…

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TRACK: Lizzie Reid announces debut EP; hear ‘Always Lovely’

YOU HAVE to say, rising Essex indie imprint Seven Four Seven Six can count its blessings in enticing emerging Glasgow songwriter Lizzie Reid to its ranks. She’s announced her debut…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Subp Yao – ‘Infra Aqual’: deep into the dark IDM ocean trenches

If you're a fan of the shearing and crushing end of the dance music spectrum - anything from (on-form) The Prodigy through Harthouse and Tresor styles - and fancy the idea of that real defleshed aesthetic spliced with some darker downbeatz interludes, this is a record you'd find rewarding to explore

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz – ‘FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word’: fragile, seductive experimenta for voice, tape and piano is

Ian William Craig & Daniel Lentz's FRKWYS Vol.16: In A Word is a fragile and beautiful work for classical voice, piano, and tape decay, roaming across a broad and brittle hinterland between Gorecki and Basinski

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