Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: The Lost Highway Tapes – ‘Something To Say’: stripped-down funky blues with The Infadels

THE LOST Highway Tapes is the project of a serendipitous encounter for Fabyl Records’ Nick Faber, who was out on a crate-diggin’ exploration of the American South. He was in…

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TRACK: Surprise Chef – ‘New Ferrari’: blaxploitation funk outta Melbourne heralds new LP

SURPRISE CHEF are a Melbourne collective cookin’ up a fine spread of secret instrumental grooves and sketches, and they’re laying the table to invite you over for their second outing…

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TRACK: The Native – ‘Chasing Highs’: a soaring guitar melody debut from Devon

PLYMOUTH, the city that gave us Sir Francis Drake playing bowls before nipping off to defeat the Spanish Armada, is launching a shot at our jack in the shape of…

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SEE: Wax Machine’s ‘Truth’: Brighton deep psych travellers announce tour dates

WAX MACHINE are a name you really ought to scribe on your albums wants list if you like your guitars, pyrotechnic; your spectrum, fully rainbow; your flutes, trilling. They released…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Various Artists – ‘Long Division: New Addition Vol.2’: ten of the Wakefield fest’s best

WAKEFIELD’S Long Division Festival – now that’s a lovely little (and these days, really not so little) event in the West Yorkshire musical calendar. It was founded back in 2011…

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TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘Vasto’: first album for 20 years in November

AS UNEXPECTED developments in the world of eerie electronica go, the announcement of a new album for winter 2020 by Sheffield game-changers Cabaret Voltaire has to be up there. And…

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SEE: Eels drop surprise new cut, ‘Baby Let’s Make It Real’

FULL of surprises, Mark Everitt’s Eels have just dropped an unexpected new single entitled “Baby Let’s Make It Real”, the result of recent sessions at the band’s studio in Los…

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SEE: Beth Hirsch – ‘All I Need’ (ELIOT’s Cosmic Remix): Moon Safari classic stripped back and still gorgeous

IT’S entirely conceivable, I suppose, that you won’t know Beth Hirsch by name, but if you were at any kind of laidback all-back-to-mine or small hours session or summer blissout…

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MEET: Psych-folkster Jeremy Tuplin talks surrealism, lockdown and Italy

JEREMY TUPLIN is a London-based singer-songwriter who, after a clutch of self-released EPs, first hoved into the wider collective psychedelic-folk eye on the back of last year’s whimsical, introspective and…

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NEWS: Doves tease track from ‘The Universal Want’ – as sheet music!

YOU have to admit, it’s pretty much a stroke of genius. Just weeks before the release of Doves’ fifth album, The Universal Want, the Manchester trio has shared the album’s closing track, “Forest House”,…

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