Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: El Goodo – ‘Things Turn Around’: how to turn a rubbish day into 6/8 beauty

IT’S a lovely little thing, the world of West Wales’ El Goodo. Things might well be a bit pants, they really might, but they have the tools to fashion the…

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TRACK: 79.5 – ‘My Dream’: timeless, crate-diggin’ retro-soul gem

IT’S absolutely fair to say that Big Crown Records, which has been down in the crates bringing you some incredibly fine cuts out of its Brooklyn base for the past…

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TRACK: Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti – ‘Drifting’: out-classical, ISDN warmth

MONTREAL-based, Toulousain composer Olivier Alary and his Berlin-based compatriot Johannes Malfatti have been friends for many years – that kind of relationship so much easier to conduct in our modern…

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SEE: Ganser – ‘Projector’: a post-punk despatch from our dystopia

IT CHARGES at you on wiry guitar and rumbling tom-toms, a shadowy simmer. We’re in a lecture theatre, with vocalist and keyboard player Nadia Garafalo demure in a sweater: our…

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SEE: Yves Jarvis – ‘For Props’: a soulful, acoustic maverick

THERE’S something in the Canadian water at the moment: something that seems to promote one-man artisans, off crafting a chiming and exploratory pop, one in which they fuse elements as…

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SEE: Bearcraft – ‘Outside In The Morning Snow’: Modish synthwave burrowing into your dreams

A two-finger synth melody is picked out, melodically precise, in that way Depeche Mode wrought so many classic hooks from as they shifted through Construction Time Again and Some Great…

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SEE: Slow Pulp – ‘Idaho’: graceful and languid guitar pop

I MEAN, as if the depredations of the coronavirus weren’t enough; try having the year that Emily Massey, singer-guitarist of Wisconsin-formed, Chicago-based, languid guitar venturers Slow Pulp has just lived…

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EP REVIEW: Wye Oak – ‘No Horizon’: boundless folk-rock choral vistas

WYE OAK have never been a band to stand still; to let the silt of being typecast, the ploughing of the same groove, hem them in. Debuting for Merge back…

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SAY PSYCH: NEWS: Moon Duo announce expanded vinyl repress for ‘Escape’

YOUR favourite psychedelic dronestronauts, Moon Duo, have announced the timely reissue of their debut album, Escape, some ten years on its original release. Long out of print, Escape was first…

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NEWS: The Lathums announce 2021 UK tour, see their latest single

ISLAND’S heart-on-the-sleeve Wigan indiepopsters The Lathums have announced a string of shows for April and May next year, taking in their biggest venues to date – including the historic Manchester…

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