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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: another marvellous shoegaze rush from Citrus Clouds with ‘Honey’

  • September 9, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
CITRUS CLOUDS, the excellent Arizonan shoegaze trio who are inspired by those big, big skies above their home city of Phoenix, have just released a second single from their forthcoming…
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TRACK: Landshapes – ‘The Ring’: first single teases November album

  • September 9, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
LANDSHAPES, the London four-piece with a nifty line in synth-driven indie psychedelia, have readied the third long-playing instalment of their recording career for your delectation after five years away. Following…
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NEWS: Arab Strap return: watch the lyric video for ‘The Turning Of Our Bones’

  • September 8, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
CRIKEY, eh? If ever a band there ever there was could reap the crop of a life in 2020 and use it as the richest, most fertile, dystopian source material,…
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NEWS: Hot Chip announce ‘LateNightTales’ mix, release Velvets cover

  • September 8, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
HOT CHIP. I can’t think of any other British band since New Order who have so straddled the indie-dance divide so successfully; and with such love from us listeners. They have…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Ambassadeurs – ‘Human Stranger’: majorly uplifting, humanist floor-fillers

  • September 7, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
AMBASSADEURS is the project of Sussex producer Mark Dobson, a man who’s approach to music is deeply personal, involved. He doesn’t churn it out because he has the means; he…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sam Prekop – ‘Comma’: further into wordless ‘tronica melodies

  • September 7, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
EMERGING from that Chicago scene so ripe with cross-fertilisation and ideas around the turn of the century, Sam Prekop was part of that fountain of creativity that brought us Tortoise,…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Sally Anne Morgan – ‘Thread’: homespun Appalachian warmth from Black Twig Pickers’ player

  • September 7, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
QUIETLY collaborating away in some of the finer, truest to tradition acts of the Americana movement such as the Black Twig Pickers, the time is now ripe for multi-instrumentalist Sally…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Matt Costa – ‘Yellow Coat’: an affair of a decade made song

  • September 7, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
TO BREATHE a little life into an old cliche, I bet my bottom dollar you’d find Matt Costa in the kitchen at parties. He’s that kinda guy. (And this is,…
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NEWS: Super Cool Drawing Machine: with no gigs, musicians are touring art instead

  • September 6, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
NO GIGS. No. Gigs. Now imagine pulling a random aside in the corridor at some New Year’s party at say, ooh, 1.34am, as the beer can fortresses advance across every…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Susanna – ‘Baudelaire & Piano’: recasting the poet in solo dusk

  • September 6, 2020
  • Chris Sawle
TWO things to note from the off about the Norwegian chanteuse fatale born Susanna Karolina Wallumrød: firstly, she is both a deep appreciator and fashioner of the arts – no…
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