Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Max Cooper – ‘Spike’: beautiful visuals for pulsing IDM

IN CASE you haven’t entered its fascinating, layered, granular, beautiful world yet, rest assured that Max Cooper’s Earth EP is one of the absolute highlights of IDM in 2020: what…

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SEE: Bastien Keb releases a video for the bone-chill beauty of ‘Rabbit Hole’

RIGHT. First things first, and full disclosure: we adore Bastien Keb over here at Backseat Mafia. His latest album, The Killing Of Eugene Peeps, is so brilliantly eclectic, multifaceted, genre-busting,…

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TRACK: Lanterns on the Lake tease for December EP with ‘Baddies’; tour news

NEWCASTLE’S soaring ‘gazers Lanterns on the Lake have announced news of a new five-track EP, The Realist, which Bella Union will release on December 11th. The EP will include four…

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SEE: The short film for Big Ideas’ ‘American Dream’: rolling with the punches as society is riven

TENNESSEE-born Nathan Nicholson and Londoner Adam Harrison may be better known to readers as members of widescreen alt.rock outfit The Boxer Rebellion, responsible for big-hearted tunes such as “Diamonds”. Now…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dope Body – ‘Crack A Light’: shriekin’ and howlin’ at the altar

Crack A Light really won't disappoint if you like guitars that shriek and howl in hardcore-stoner distress. A righteous noise purging

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SEE: Ailsa Tully’s ‘Drive’: sweet bass-driven folk-pop from the Welsh borders

DALLIANCE RECORDINGS, the boutique label that’s already garnered the loveliness of Gia Margaret and Common Holly to its hearthside, has hit a triple score on singer-songwriters by adding Welsh border…

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PREMIERE: Gefahrgeist’s ‘Graceless’ is a soaring, twinkling debut

WE LOVE new and upcoming bands here at Backseat Mafia. It keeps us going, looking for that next band or song that just stops you dead and totally rearranges both…

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SEE: XIXA – ‘May They Call Us Home’: where desert rock meets cumbia

COMING atcha suited and booted, dusty with the long ride in from Tucson, AZ, XIXA have released the second single from their forthcoming album, “May They Call Us Home”. You…

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Soundtracks of Our Lives: Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers

MAGIK MARKERS came hurtling at us from a Connecticut basement in 2001, full of fire and noise and dirt and excellence. Back then there were four of them: singer-guitarist Elisa…

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NEWS: Braids to play live-streamed ‘world tour’ shows today

MONTREAL’S excellent electronica explorers Braids will embark on their second 24HRWWWORLD TOUR today, October 29th, live streaming from their studio in Montreal, playing six concerts in six different time zones in…

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