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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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SEE: Slow Pulp – ‘At It Again’: a Chicago fuzzpop cracker

  • September 19, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
SLOW PULP are a band who’ve been around the block – in a really, dreadfully short space of time. Don’t wish for the kinda year singer Emily Massey’s had. No,…
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NEWS: Slowdive back in the studio for their fifth, Insta photos reveal

  • September 19, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
NOW here’s some news to cheer any autumnally affected, guitar-lovin’ heart: Rachel Goswell of first-generation shoegaze luminaries has published a couple of pictures over on her Instagram account strongly suggesting…
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SEE: The Green Child’s ‘Fashion Light’: woozy and intelligent psych-synth melodies

  • September 19, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
RAVEN MAHON and Mikey Young began making beautiful music together after a chance encounter at a gig in her home state of California; at the time they were both in…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Big Bill Broonzy – ‘The Midnight Special: Live In Nottingham 1957’: music of truth delivered with power

  • September 18, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
BIG BILL BROONZY – he’s one of those names you hear in hallowed tones, whispered and discussed on forums and in the music press, alongside such company as Robert Johnson, Mahalia…
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TRACK: Steph Richards – ‘Underbelly’: marvellous free jazz trails LP – with accompanying scents …

  • September 18, 2020
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STEPH RICHARDS – the composer, free jazz trumpeter and bandleader who’s worked with artists as diverse as St Vincent, Yoko Ono and Anthony Braxton, knows a thing or two about…
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SEE: the video for Kinbote’s ‘Hiemalis’: pretty, sampledelic glitch-pop teases December debut

  • September 18, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
A PRETTY, chopping, sampled sound source lays the foundation stone; a soft shuffle of percussion dovetails, and we see Matt Gibb, aka Kinbote, walking wistfully through the dunes; he’s very…
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SEE: the video for Adam Beattie’s ‘Somewhere Round The Bend’: dark songwriting for witching-hour whisky

  • September 18, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
ADAM BEATTIE is an Aberdeenshire balladeer with a dark, twangy musical beauty and an unflinching way with a starkly observed lyric.  You may not know him as a solo artist,…
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NEWS: The Lathums cover ‘The Snake’ – there’s only one vinyl copy!

  • September 17, 2020
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WIGAN’S upcoming indie popsters The Lathums, who reached no.14 in the UK Album Chart in July with their yellow-vinyl compilation The Memories We Make, have decided to give something back…
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TRACK: HMS Morris – ‘Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol’: intelligent artpop asks we all look outwards

  • September 17, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
HMS MORRIS are a rather fine art-rock collective operating out of the Welsh capital; the project of former Emmy the Great bassist Heledd Watkins, they’ve since developed a whole ethos,…
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PREMIERE: Free Country – ‘The Life Of Riley’: wistful, essential lofi from his hometown basement

  • September 17, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
FREE COUNTRY is the indie pop project of LA’s Jason Ribadeneyra, a man with an ear for a wistful, low-key melody delivered with weary truth in his voice. Tomorrow he…
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