Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Edith Frost – ‘Little Sign’: a psych-country call for positive action

NOW THERE’S a singer from Drag City’s diverse and always lovable stable that we haven’t heard nearly enough from in recent years. San Antonio’s self-styled purveyor of “pensive, countrified psychedelia”,…

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SEE: King Hannah’s ‘Meal Deal’; they announce first EP for City Slang

LIVERPOOL’S Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle who, after working as musicians separately for years, met in a bar job, and decided to make beautiful music together as King Hannah, have…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Pole – ‘Fading’: an enveloping electronic palimpsest

Fading is a palimpsest, Stefan writing over and erasing, finessing and revisiting all the Poles which make up Pole. Think of Fading in terms of depth, of descending, and exploring what lies within. It'll envelop you.

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SEE: Caroline Polachek – ‘The Gate (Extended Mix) – ethereal bliss with stunning visuals

IN CELEBRATION of the first anniversary of her debut solo album, Pang, Caroline Polachek, former singer with the lovely Brooklyn lo-fi poppers Chairlift, has released a blissful extended mix of…

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SEE: Jarrel the Young – ‘Paris In The Fall’ – yearning modern R’n’B

YOU MAY not know him by name, but it’s pretty much a dead cert that you’ve heard Jarrel The Young’s work; the Toronto-based producer has been at the faders for…

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SEE: The animation for the bright electro groove of Myd feat. Mac DeMarco’s ‘Moving Men’

QUENTIN LEPOUTRE, better known to us out there in the world of Gallic grooves as Myd, has made what seems on paper an unlikely alliance with Canadian indie rock star…

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NEWS: Bing & Ruth release digital remix EP of ‘Species’: hear a harp-laden take on ‘Badwater Psalm’

AS WE approach the end of this accursed year and begin to summate the best of it – and more than any year as a species, thank the good lord…

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SEE: Jim Ghedi – ‘Beneath The Willow’; new album in January

MODERN fingerpicking scion Jim Ghedi has announced he’s releasing a new album in January; and he’s just released a video and short film for the first single to be taken…

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NEWS: Khruangbin next to offer us their ‘Late Night Tales’ – hear their Kool & The Gang cover

LATE NIGHT TALES, the long-running and superb compilation series curated so far by pretty much every cool band of our times, from Belle & Sebastian to Air, from Jon Hopkins…

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NEWS: Blue Note announce new series of vinyl-only remasters for 2021

BLUE NOTE, the jazz imprint absolutely without parallel since 1939, has announced a new series of vinyl-only remasters and reissues to run from December into the middle part of 2021.…

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