Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: the sweet dreaminess of Tom Joshua’s ‘Undergrowth’

TOM JOSHUA, the singer who first broke into our collective consciousness with “Meteor Showers”, has just released a teaser single, the sweet pop harmonising of “Undergrowth” ahead of an EP…

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NEWS: The Maytals’ Toots Hibbert has died, aged 77

THERE’S sad news from the world of reggae today as it was announced that the singer and guiding light with legends Toots & The Maytals, “Toots” Hibbert, has died at…

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TRACK: Blue States’ latest slice of cinematic chill, ‘Archival’; 20th anniversary issue of ‘Nothing Changes …’

BLUE STATES, the gorgeous, cultish, chilled electronica pop project of Andy Dregazis, has dropped some new widescreen vibes in the shape of “Archival” – listen with us. It’s actually culled…

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SEE: the bliss of Lost Horizons’ ‘I Woke Up With An Open Heart’; new LP dropping in two parts

LOST HORIZONS, the guest artist-featuring, blissful musical project of Cocteau Twins bassist and Bella Union supremo Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, have announced their second LP, In Quiet Moments, which will…

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NEWS: RADIDAS’ ‘The Hits’ is next up for Austerity’s C60 Club: Balearic psych-synth cool

AUSTERITY Records of Brighton have announced the second release in their cute C60 Club – for all you lovers of the chromium oxide – and that accolade falls to the…

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EP REVIEW: The Illness – ‘Descending’/’Phrases Redacted’: alt rock gets the tronica feels on cassette

HERE at Backseat Mafia, we’re really quite fond of The Illness. No, god, not that one – not the year-destroying one; we’re talking the Transpennine band who’ve been something of…

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ALBUM REVIEW: King of the Slums – ‘Encrypted Contemporary Narratives’: the life we live now as we may not wish to see it

MANCHESTER: that great north-west city with, in the words of an idol very much on an unfortunate downward curve these days, so much to answer for. It’s given us some…

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SEE: Dope Body’s ‘Jer Bang’: Baltimore noiseniks are back atcha; be glad

BALTIMORE’S knife-sharp noise outfit Dope Body, who released a trio of salvos at yr head for Drag City in the first part of the decade in the shape of Natural…

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SEE: the rage of Stone’s ‘Stay Silent’, live from Liverpool

STONE: solid, unyielding, hard. It’s pretty much the perfect name for the Liverpudlian band that have picked up a dazzled DJ fan in the shape of Radio One’s Jack Saunders,…

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SEE: The video for A Certain Ratio’s ‘Berlin’: UK dates for 2021

MANCHESTER legends A Certain Ratio, whose brilliant new album ACR Loco will be with us on Mute come September 25th, have just dropped the video for the none-more-Mancunian effortless pop…

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