Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

Album review: David Christian & The Pinecone Orchestra – ‘For Those We Met On The Way’: Comet Gain man sends a folk-rock postcard, looking back with sadness but without anger

THIS record begins not in the virus, lockdown, careers suddenly and virally iced, like the back story of so many records of recent times. Which in itself, may be a…

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News: Cambridge psych-folk explorers Fuzzy Lights announce UK dates for February

WITH their album Burials having been in out in the world a while now and receiving deserved praise for its exploratory shifts out of the genre from all quarters –…

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See: Austin ‘gazers Letting Up Despite Great Faults drop the easy glide of ‘Corners Pressed’ – come see the lyric video

HAILING from Austin, that Texas city which is the home of SXSW, shoegaze four-piece Letting Up Despite Great Faults have stretched, arisen and are back in the game with gusto…

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Track: Senior Citizen x Tim Walker share the electro ode ‘The Foreign’

FREDRICTON, New Brunswick musician Bob Deveau, who you’ll find jaunting out and about in synthy surroundings as Senior Citizen away from the drum stool he usually occupies with bands like…

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See: Casper Skulls join hands for the evocative, mysterious roots rock of ‘Ouija’

WITH their first album since 2017’s The Mercy Works out yesterday, Casper Skulls have shared a video for the mysterious and evocative roots rock of “Ouija”, which sees them connect…

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See: With their ‘Fish & Chips’ EP out now, Average Life Complaints share a video for the wiry rage of ‘Answers’

WITH that crisp, declamatory and wiry, post-punk, post-Speedy Wunderground sound, sweeping songcraft and such judicious revival of the chorus pedal, last heard in such mistily evocative effect in early Killing…

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See: The Self Esteem-collaborating Soft Lad steps out on her own with the leftfield pop glow of ‘Singapore’

SOPHIE GALPIN? Another of those musicians doing god’s work in bringing the tunes to us, hiding her light under a bushel in support of others, crafting the songs of others…

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Live review: Billy Bragg, Exeter University, November 11th, 2021: our favourite troubadour of the heart and the people returns to the stage

A PILGRIMAGE of sorts, to see the Bard of Barking, Billy Bragg (although these days it’s the Bard of Bridport, not so many miles east along the Dorset coast); who’s…

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News: Thomas Leer and Robert Rental’s cult punk-electro classic ‘The Bridge’ gets a reissue in January; hear ‘Monochrome Days’

NO LESSER a cultural vulture (and someone you’d love to go on an Edinburgh pub crawl with) Ian Rankin says of Thomas Leer and Robert Rental’s cult ’79 album The…

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Track: Cousin Kula bring the chillwave jazz of ‘Something So Sweet’ from the banks of the Avon, with a debut album and dates soon

BRISTOL quintet Cousin Kula ply a line in woozy, chillwave jazz to bliss you out with sophistication, talent and a lazy groove – doubt them not and check out “Something…

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