Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Andy Shauf – ‘Clove Cigarette’: A Proustian moment captured in baroque pop; live stream news

ANTI-‘S lovely baroque-pop song sculptor Andy Shauf has just released the video for “Clove Cigarette”, one of the standout tracks from January’s The Neon Skyline. Watch with us; it’s 184…

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BRONSON announce a trio of remix EPs; hear the Cassian mix of ‘KNOW ME’

BRONSON, the epic, bass-shakin’ progressive house project of Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, of ODESZA, and producer Tom Stell of Golden Features, has announced a series of three remix EPs as an exciting…

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TRACK: Dope Body – ‘Mutant Being’: they’re ready to hurt those guitars, bwoy

BALTIMORE’S Dope Body are so back; they’re so ready for this and they need to make their guitars howwwwl. They’ve dropped anudda new track to usher you towards the noise…

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TRACK: Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto – ‘After After’: heady psych rock teases November album

WELL, there’s a proper getting together of headz, lads. This is gonna be fun, no doubt about that. Nottingham’s garage-psychesters Little Barrie have decided to get some infused-sugarcube groove on…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Compassion’: Chicago meets Tibet in exploratory fusion

Compassion is a complex, often beautiful and sometimes challenging work, exploring the interstices where Tibetan healing meets Chicago instrumentalism

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TRACK: Haiku Salut to release two short film scores – “Pattern Thinker” is out today

DERBYSHIRE’S brilliant post-folkrock trio Haiku Salut will be releasing two new ten-minute tracks over the next week, both in response to a commission by Live Cinema UK, in which the…

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TRACK: Samuel Sharp – ‘Fireworks From The Tower’: beautiful and dubby sax impressions

COMPOSER-saxophonist Samuel Sharp – an artist who has mostly up to this point released his work under the nom-de-musique Lossy, and whose collaborative curriculum vitae includes live work with artists…

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NEWS: The Gun Club’s classic ’82 set ‘Miami’ gets expanded reissue

WHEN Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Brian Tristan first got together to form a band in Los Angeles in 1979, they were both fans; mega-fans. Jeffrey headed up the LA branch…

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TRACKS: King Creosote – ‘Susie Mullen’ and ‘Walter de La Mare’ – Domino 7″ follows

IT’S BEEN four long years since we’ve heard from Fife’s Kenny Anderson, better known to us all as King Creosote. By my reckoning, that’s definitely four years too long. Which…

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TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘The Power (Of Their Knowledge)’: eerie and portentous tronica for our world today

SHEFFIELD’S Cabaret Voltaire, poised to release their first new album in more than a quarter-century for Mute next month, have dropped another chill, single-track postcard portent from the electronic edge…

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