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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: Scrimshire – ‘Believers Vol.1’: eclectic soul-jazz bliss that’ll wash you clean

  • November 9, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
Among all the circumstantial dirt and viral grime and societal schisming of 2020, hearing Believers Vol. 1 is like having your brain washed and massaged
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ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – Selva Selects: Thunder Claps: a year in Quantic’s superb new imprint

  • November 9, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
Selva Selects: Thunder Claps wins big in touching on so many tangents in the world of music, da funk, da disco, Latin, electro: it's so eclectic, but it all works because Quantic is like a dowsing rod for a great tune. He's the constant, the overseer, the constant thread, and this compilation is the absolute mustard. Year-end podium position tackle.
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PREMIERE: Nancy Gaffield and The Drift – ‘Song Of The Shingle’: Kent’s High Weald evoked in music and poem

  • November 8, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
THERE’S been a little upswell in recent times of interesting and brilliantly evocative collaborations exploring the spoken word and the poetic, and how that plays against music. Slowly unfolding atmospheres,…
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TRACK: The Damn Straights – ‘The World’s On Fire (Let It Burn)’: new collab drops a fiery banger

  • November 7, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
THE DAMN STRAIGHTS is a transatlantic collaboration between Exeter’s Adam Gibbons, aka the connoisseur’s modern soul connoisseur, Lack of Afro, and Maryland rhymer Herbal T, who’d actually shared musical admiration…
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SEE: Sofie – ‘Try To Reach Me’: languid, cinematic, European pop

  • November 7, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
STONES THROW’s intelligent Viennese chanteuse Sofie, who released one of the cleverest albums of the year with the graceful, European pop of Cult Survivor back in June (read our review…
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TRACK: The Dawdler – ‘Sign Of Growth’: a sad, cruciverbalist shoegaze rush

  • November 6, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
THE DAWDLER is the low-key musical alias of Tyneside singer-songwriter John Edgar, who describes himself on his Twitter profile as “Ambient pop. Sad.” He’s more than made us sit up…
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CASSETTE REVIEWS: A trio of leftfield beauties from Fritz Pape, Stephen Molyneux, and Laura Luna Castillo

  • November 6, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
WHITED SEPULCHRE is one of those brilliant little labels nibbling away at, and fascinated by, what’s happening out on the margins. The artists driven less by adoring teens and the…
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PREMIERE: Kazumichi Komatsu – ‘Orca’: textural dreamstate IDM

  • November 6, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
KAZUMICHI KOMATSU is a Japanese electronicist and multi-media artist who you can place quite firmly in a grand tradition of sonic playfulness and interrogation that also includes microsound artist Ryoji…
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SEE: Sophie Jamieson – ‘Concrete’: a siren song of a road accident teases for her EP

  • November 5, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
THEY say write about what you know; and Sophie Jamieson is a returning artist with a captivating voice who is absolutely unafraid of such a prospect. She’s been preparing for…
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TRACK: Andy Cooper – ‘Heart’: grandstanding old-skool science

  • November 5, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
FORMER rhymes scientists in Californ-I-A’s favourite old-skool hip-hop trio Ugly Duckling, Andy Cooper has teamed back up with his former decks buddy Young Einstein for his latest single drop, “Heart”.…
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