Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Otta’s ‘Sick Inside’ has a gorgeous, genre-busting fragility

SOUTH London-based, British-Finnish singer Otta is plotting an intriguing and sonically dazed course out on the creative fringes of singer-songwriter, lofi and soul. Her second EP, entitled Songbook, follows a…

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TRACK: jazz legend Charles Tolliver returns with ‘Blue Soul’

NOO YOIK jazz trumpet legend Charles Tolliver is poised to release his first studio material in more than decade at the end of this month. The Gearbox imprint will be…

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NEWS: Left Banke bassist and singer Tom Finn dead at 71

IT HAS been reported the founder member and bassist with seminal American baroque pop outfit The Left Banke, Tom Finn, has died at the age of 71. The Left Banke,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Aārp – ‘Propaganda’

MAKE no mistake, the debut album from classically trained experimentalist Aārp has serious conceptual intent. Entitled Propaganda, and out now on Paris-Lyon-Berlin imprint InFiné, it is pointedly political. The title…

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TRACK: Home Counties’ ‘Dad Bod’ – fantastically Peel show awkward squad

IT WOULD seem the Bristol underground scene is in rude health. Last week we had a new download-only only round-up from Dorset boys moved uptown with a whole clutch of…

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SEE: Dope Body’s vid for sleaze nugget “Home Body”; Spotify playlist

BALTIMORE’S answer to Royal Trux, newly rejuvenated sleaze rockers Dope Body, have released a video to accompany “Back in Back” from their May return set, Home Body. And you can…

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SEE: Jon Anderson reveals ‘WDMCF’ ahead of new LP

YES LEGEND Jon Anderson has debuted a single entitled “WDMCF” in advance of his forthcoming album, 1000 Hands; and you can watch the clip below. Of this latest single, Jon…

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SEE: Oh Wonder’s ‘Don’t You Worry’ soothes lockdown blues

SWOONSOME London duo Oh Wonder have continued to create under the privations of lockdown, with the fifth song in their acclaimed Home Tapes project out now. “Don’t You Worry” completes…

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TRACK: In Earnest’s ‘Put Me Under’ swoons in out of the darkness

SOUTHEND trio In Earnest have taken their bow in the world with a delicate, emotive single, “Put Me Under”. The band say the single “is an honest, personal account of…

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NEWS: Bjork to stream shows from Reykavik

HOT on the heels of Nick Cave’s live stream from Ally Pally, announced yesterday, comes news from Iceland: Björk is to stream three matinee performances from Reykjavík’s Harpa Hall, to…

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