Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

ALBUM REVIEW: Eternell – ‘Imagined Distances’: fine, glimmering ambient drone

SOUND IN SILENCE is a label concerned with the liminal and ambient fringes of music. Operating out of Athens for nigh on a decade and a half, it can boast…

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SEE: the sweetness of Emma Kupa’s ‘Hey Love’

Former singer with Sheffield cult indie heroes Standard Fare, in collaboration with Hefner man Darren Hayman in the Hayman Kupa Band, and in indie fizzbomb purveyors Mammoth Penguins, Emma Kupa…

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SEE: Leron Thomas’s ‘Blind’ is a call to wake up from our routines

LERON THOMAS has been quietly making a stir in his native USA for a while with a conscious and deep brand of funk and jazz. More recently he has become…

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TRACK: Emmy the Great’s ‘Dandelions/Liminal’ is intelligent and breezy

BELLA UNION’S Emmy the Great has had a major shift in consciousness and the place she calls home since her last album, Second Love, back in 2016. Born in Hong…

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See: Wye Oak’s ‘AEIOU’ spells out the inadequacy of language

BALTIMORE’S Wye Oak are on a real creative roll. The stylistically free-grazing duo of Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack have released a video for “AEIOU”, a taster for their new…

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TRACK: Darkstar unveil remix 12″ with Loraine James cut

AIDEN WHALLEY and James Young, better known to IDM heads as Darkstar, have a proper work ethic. Not content to rest on the laurels of last month’s Civic Jams set,…

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TRACK: It’s Monday, it’s a beautiful third from Bill Callahan – ’35’

IT’S MONDAY: we’re in the groove now, and we know to expect a little nugget from Bill Callahan, as he previews September’s Gold Record track by track on a weekly…

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SEE: Ditz’s ‘Role Model’ is righteously noisy

BRIGHTON noiseniks Ditz have finally come down from the world of download-only and brought us five tracks of guitar-killin’ wax, in the shape of the 5 Songs EP. They’ve released…

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SEE: Martha – ‘Her Name’s December’: a singer to watch

UP AND coming British singer-songwriter Martha cut her musical teeth singing out from the depth of her heart in church, aged just 9. She began writing her own material at…

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TRACK: Magic Bronson are back and ‘Surfin’

LA’s scuzzed-up alt.pop duo Magic Bronson are back and “Surfin on your brainwaves” with the second single to be released ahead of their forthcoming LP. It’s a slice of West…

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