Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: Pennine baggy-psychesters waylay us again; album news

MOSSLEY – pronounced Mozzley – high up where the Pennines lurch high and wild, right out on the north-eastern fringes of Greater Manchester, has spawned a looming, mist-blurred collective known…

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SEE: the Suicide chop-up of $hit & $hine’s ‘Hillbilly Moonshine’ – album in October

WHEN the going gets tough … You know the rest. A summer that’s bust more than a few consciousnesses has proved the right conditions for Austin, Texas’s Craig Clouse, who…

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SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Back From the Dead’: Ziggyesque glam-psych call to live here, now

IT COMES grooving in on an early glam kinda riff, that hook-laden chug you got in Bowie’s “Suffragette City”, bluesy and low-slung, propelling along on a fuzz guitar. Jeremy himself…

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TOP TEN: Fair Mothers’ Kevin Allan picks the albums that made the difference

Aberdeenshire's Kevin Allan releases his second LP of this most universally fraught year today, August 7th. Valentine's Day brought us 'Separate Lives', which was necessarily championed by Stuart Maconie on his 6Music Freakzone. 'In Monochrome' is an absolute stunner, we find. Raw, chilled, unblinking in the face of life, Kevin makes promises no answers. But what he does do is communicate with you, proffer you emotional information; learn alongside him. 'In Monochrome' is unflinching and visionary; it's one of the essential albums of 2020, sayeth us here at BSM.

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SEE: Sing Leaf’s ‘Easy On You’: wrap y’self inside indie-folk bliss

“THIS is the best song I’ve written, I think; real simple and clean,” says Sing Leaf’s David Como of the single he’s just released, “Easy On You”. “I wrote it…

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NEWS: Hannah Peel releasing soundtrack for ‘The Deceived’

HANNAH PEEL, the Irish-born, Yorkshire-resident artiste who moves freely between folk, classical and retrotronica, finding beautiful nuance in each, is to release her soundtrack for the new Channel 5 psychological…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Liela Moss – ‘Who the Power’: pop that takes one last dance as the world ends

OVER the past couple of years and one very warmly received LP, Duke Spirit member and Bella Union solo artiste Liela Moss – watch your vowel placement with care, folks…

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TRACK: Hear Mort Garson’s ‘This Is My Beloved’: Sacred Bones to release quartet of albums

THE WORLD of 60s’ and early 70s’ electronica was full of fascinating, creative mavericks: scientists, polymaths, creatives, all deeply fascinated by the weird things that were happening with the pure…

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SEE: Cian Ciaran feat Jehst and Wibidi – ‘Are You Down With Me?’: hazy breaks’ call for collective strength

AFTER yesterday’s powerful live stream in solidarity, remembrance, rage and consciousness-raising marking the 75th anniversary of the devastating nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, politically acute Super Furry Animal Cian Ciarán today…

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SEE: Osees – ‘Dreary Threat’; album, tour dates

JOHN DWYER’S Osees – yep, that’s another letter gone – are the hardest working, most adrenaline-fuelled garage-punk guitar toters in the business. If you’e ever been blessed enough to see…

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