Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Emma Kupa – ‘Nawlins’: indie-folk for The Big Easy and pop art dancing

YOU know what? She’s just a bit lovely, is Emma Kupa, Sheffield songstress bringing us warm observations across the indie-folk Venn overlap. Twas only a few weeks back she dazzled…

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TRACK: Garcia Peoples – ‘One At A Time’: cool, bluesy East Coast rock: new album in October

RUTHERFORD, New Jersey’s autumnal rock outfit Garcia Peoples are following up their live cassette from earlier in the year with a new album, Nightcap At Wits’ End, on October 9th;…

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FEATURE: Soundtracks of our Lives: Liela Moss

BEGINNING back in 2005 with the fine English psych-swamp rock charge of The Duke Spirit, Liela Moss has grown into being one of the UK’s most forthright and potent voices,…

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NEWS: Bob Mould announces definitive post-Hüsker Dü box sets

IF YOU’RE a fan of Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould and you fancy spending some big, definitive bucks, then lookee here: Demon Music have announced that on October 2nd, they’ll…

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PREMIERE: Demsky – ‘Cold Coffee’: a chilled drink and loose-limbed, ambient downbeat

IT’S BEEN a proper learning curve: I mean, we’ve all had to find our own ways of dealing with … this, haven’t we? Whatever gets you through. Personally I’ve got…

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DROPPIN’ KNOWLEDGE: TRACK: Mama Odé – ‘Creole Brothers’: crisp, whispered fraternal rhymes

BROTHERS Reginald Omas Mamode IV and Jeen Bassa have been out there carving beats explorations independent of each other for a few years now, so it makes sense that they…

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TRACK: Father John Misty drops ‘To S’ out of the blue

YOU know, just maybe he’s our saviour: Sub Pop’s microdosing piano auteur Father John Misty, whose 2017 track “Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution” and…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Cowboy’: whisky, water and whistlin’ our tired bones home

IT’S KINDA hard to believe that Bill has led us through the summer like an Americana pied piper, Monday by Monday, sprinkling the grey start of the week with a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Keys – ‘Home Schooling’: lo-fi Welsh powerpop gems

COMING at you out of the Welsh capital Cardiff, Keys are a quintet who, we can glean from their photograph, love a pair of shades. A listen to their new…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Siv Jakobsen – ‘A Temporary Soothing’: fashioning a gem of folk delicacy from the lived experience

SIV JAKOBSEN, who grew up on the south-western edge of the wider Oslo conurbation, is a folk artist who is really is singing from the heart. Hailing from the fjordside…

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