Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Jerry Joseph – ‘Sugar Smacks’: tellin’ it like it is with The Drive-By Truckers

JERRY JOSEPH is a singer who’s been there, got the tee-shirt; hell, got the entire arm-sleeve tattoo. He made his first steps into music after living a little on the…

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TRACK: Richard Skelton – ‘For The Application Of Fire’: a new electronic spellbook

RICHARD SKELTON is absolutely what you might term a polymath. A poet, writer and artist, intensely concerned with the nature and experience of place, he only began to fashion musics…

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SEE: Winter Gardens – ‘Tapestry’: dark, velvet dreampop

THE song hums in quietly on the faintest guitar shimmer. One deep keyboard chord lends heft and depth. And then vocalist Ananda appears, a ghostly image, made more eerie yet…

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SEE: Less Bells – ‘The Fang’: fashioning beauty from grief for Kranky

YOU may well have heard Julie Carpenter, if you have not yet heard of her. A graduate of the University of North Texas, multi-instrumentalist and composer Julie has been called…

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NEWS: Tim Smith of Cardiacs passes aged 59

THE world of quirky indie music was left a little darker this morning with the news that Tim Smith, singer with eternally loved, eternal outsiders the Cardiacs, has died at…

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TRACK: The Seshen – ‘Still Dreaming’: luscious future beats

SAN FRAN area septet The Seshen have been nothing if not productive this year. They released their third album, Cyan, earlier this year with Brighton’s eclectic beat hounds Tru Thoughts.…

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SEE: Tiga & Hudson Mohawke – ‘Love Minus Zero’: transatlantic dance pop euphoria

THE SPHERE of dance music is one of constant, healthy cross-fertilisation and contrast, of new sounds arising. But when Warp’s leftfield hiphop and breaks reinventor Hudson Mohawke began working with…

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TRACK: William Shatner and Canned Heat decide: ‘Let’s Work Together’

AND now he’s back. From outer space. The rebellious re-interpreter of “Mr Tambourine Man” and “Lucy in the Sky in Diamonds” on his album, The Transformed Man, in 1968. Brilliant…

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TRACK: Bill Callahan makes it a Monday quartet with ‘Protest Song’

BILL CALLAHAN’S ongoing Monday afternoon pledge to gift us a song from his September Gold Record reached its fourth instalment today, with the downhome and evocative porchside “Protest Song”. Today’s…

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SEE: El Goodo’s ‘The Grey Tower’ psychs like The Seeds

QUIETLY working to their own, slower calendar in the Vale of Neath since the 20th flipped to the 21st, Wales’s El Goodo offer up pebbles of psych-folk-country goodness for anyone…

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