Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return

New England noiseniks' full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they're back

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SEE: The Twilite Tone – ‘Do It Properly’: dancing through the Windy City with future breaks

CHICAGO’S enlightened future breaks producer The Twilite Tone has just unveiled the video for “Do It Properly”, one of the standout tracks from his diaristic debut album for Stones Throw,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper

Re: confirms SHHE as a great Scottish talent whose musics lend to steaming and bending into pretty new shapes. There’s a couple of artists working out in the sound forges where she is; but there’s a lot of room for music this good.

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NEWS: The Lathums announce Blackpool Tower live stream

WIGAN’S current chosen indiepop few, The Lathums, have announced a return to live performance for the first time since their sold-out February tour when they play the historic Blackpool Tower, just…

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SEE: The video for Julia Jacklin’s ‘to Perth, before the border closes’ from her new Sub Pop 7″

IN MID-March, superb Australian alt.folk singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin was just one show from finishing a 12-month world tour for her second album, Crushing, when Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, announced the country would…

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TRACK: The Kinks announce 50th anniversary reissue of ‘Lola vs. Powerman …’ – hear new track, ‘Any Time 2020’

THE KINKS’ eighth studio album, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, is just celebrating its half-century … a scary thought. A concept album without the twiddly bits, but…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Snowdrops – ‘Volutes’: chamber duo expand the post-classical palette with true beauty

Snowdrops have taken the post-classical palette to another place again with their use of two of the more overlooked pioneering electronic instruments, and produced a work that at its least, is intensely transporting; and in its two twin peaks, “Comma (variation 1)” and “Ultraviolet”, close to too beautiful, heartbreakingly so.

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TRACK: Mndsgn covers Sofie’s ‘Truth Of The Matter’ – chilled Stones Throw soul funk

LA’S Mndsgn, the musician and producer who drops glimmering and floaty future funk soul for Stones Throw, has just shared a cover of “Truth Of The Matter” by stablemate Sofie.…

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TRACK: Lizzie Reid – ‘Seamless’: a sweet tale of heartbreak from Glasgow

LIZZIE REID is a Glaswegian singer-songwriter with an unflinching eye for detailing the rawer side of our emotional lives. She’s just signed for Essex indie Seven Four Seven Six and…

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TRACK: Bronx Slang tease for next year’s album with a new mixtape

OLLIE MIGGS and Jerry Beeks, the B-boy lyrical scientists better known to us as Bronx Slang, are teasing for a new album in ’21 with 19 minutes of hard-hitting, conscious…

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