Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: the animated video for the Appalachian loveliness of Sally Anne Morgan’s ‘Garden Song’

SOMETIME Black Twig Picker and half of leftfield roots reshapers House and Land, Sally Anne Morgan has just released the lovely and verdant animation to accompany her “Garden Song”, one…

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TRACK: Tanya Donnelly and the Parkington Sisters – ‘You Will Be Loved Again’: album release listening parties on Friday

TANYA DONELLY, who’s forged a career of alt.pop brilliance through Throwing Muses, Belly and just as Tanya herself, is set to release a seductive LP of close-harmony bluegrass covers with…

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SEE: Emma Swift – ‘You’re A Big Girl Now’: a Dylan tune comes of age in Emma’s hands

MY, BUT she knows how to get inside a song and bring out the emotional depth, the resonance, the beauty, does singer-songwriter Emma Swift. Coming out of Nashville, Tennessee, Emma…

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TRACK: Kelly Lee Owens feat John Cale – ‘Corner Of My Sky’: Welsh wizardry combined in genre-blurring techno

TAKE one absolute legend of experimental pop music, Carmarthenshire-born John Cale, who needs no introduction in these pages, a career of absolute wonder and collaboration under his belt, never content…

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SEE: Ólafur Arnalds returns with the beautiful noir of ‘Back To The Sky’

IF YOU like your music to come with an architecture of gorgeously constructed post-classicism, an experimental and conceptual edge, yet still have enough presence in the world of contemporary pop…

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SEE: Paul Molloy – ‘My Madonna’: ’68 psych-pop finery

THEY get absolutely bloody everywhere, these Coral boys. Turn your back for so much as a second and another one of them has stepped out from beneath the psychedelic skirts…

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PREMIERE: The Galaxy Electric – ‘Tomorrow Was Better Than Yesterday’: retrotronics to watch Earthrise

THE GALAXY ELECTRIC is American husband and wife duo Augustus and Jacqueline, who adore the music of the past of the future: that sweet, groovy as hell, jetpack-sporting and pristine…

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SEE: Mountain Goats – ‘As Many Candles As Possible’: monochrome prophecies from their second of the year

PRODIGIOUS and fiercely loved East Coaster indie-folk outfit The Mountain Goats have announced their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, an album which they describe as “ … perfect…

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TRACK: hear the retro yearn of Elvis Perkins’ ‘See Through’ – a world where people dance alone

A NEW YORK auteur with an eye for the beauty of a song steeped in the good stuff of muted bass-string riffs clicking away, a sturdy brass section and the…

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SEE: John Monkman – ‘Spectrum’: a grandiose and atmospheric tronica sweep

JOHN MONKMAN, the London-based tech-electronica producer who’s put intelligent grooves out on labels such as Crosstown Rebels and Kompakt, has unveiled the bewitching monochrome grids of the video for his…

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