Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t

GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting,…

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SEE: U.S. Girls – ‘IOU’: classic pop craft caught in the studio

THE NAME may have originated in a casual joke all those years ago, but Meghan Remy’s U.S. Girls project fashions a very true and lovely music, bringing those classic vocal…

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Premiere: Annie Taylor – ‘The Grass is Greener’: classy fuzz-psych shimmer

LET’S set the record straight from the start: Annie Taylor isn’t a solo artiste, it’s a band. And let’s add to that: Annie Taylor, hailing from Switzerland, is a very…

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NEWS: Super Furries’ Cian Ciaran marks Hiroshima 75th with six-hour live stream today

AT 4.15AM Japanese time on August 6th, 1945, the world changed forever. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, of the USAF 393d Bombardment Squadron and named after the pilot Colonel…

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SEE: The Allergies – ‘I Just Got That Feeling’: fightin’ the 3am blues with crisp Brizzle beatz

HELL, we’ve all been there. The bleary bemusement of the digital clock reading 3.29am. Jeez; and you have this weird intuition, something is off-balance somewhere. In a rare, more introspective…

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SEE: Sneaks – ‘Mars In Virgo’: lofi astrological rave rhyming

LET there be no doubt: Sneaks, known to friends and family as Eva Moolchan, is COOL. Last year’s Highway Hypnosis album for Merge wended through seductive, deconstructed electro; leftfield, whispered…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Conrad Schnitzler/Frank Bretschneider – ‘Con-struct’: beguilingly far out in sound deconstruction

Frank Bretschneider's instalment in Bureau B's occasional 'Con-struct' series is a fascinating, rewarding and wholly synapse-rearranging glitchtronica journey - do not operate heavy machinery under the influence

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TRACK: Space Captain – ‘Birthday Cards’: graceful psychedelic soul on Tru Thoughts

LIKE that friend you have that you’ve grown with and can always WhatsApp in the middle of the night, Brighton’s TruThoughts is someone you can rely on; that you can…

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NEWS: Live-stream shows from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: UK ‘date’ this Friday

FACED by the reality that any chance of getting some gigs under their belt for 2020 was vanishing like a mirage, Austin, TX guitar deities …And You Will Know Us…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan – ‘Let’s Move to the Country’: Bill out-smogs himself

BESIDES being a songwriter we should grasp close to our chests, we’ve seen time and time again this summer that Bill Callahan has an incredible capacity to surprise. First he…

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