Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Little Kid’s ‘All Night (Golden Ring)’ is a dark roots duet

TORONTO’S Little Kid are in the process of making the step up from Ontarian word-of-mouth cult act to the modern roots first team. The project of Kenny Boothby, Little Kid…

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ALBUM REVIEW: bdrmm – ‘Bedroom’

A DEMO recorded on a smartphone, and a paucity of vowels: from such humble seeds Yorkshire’s bdrmm have flowered into probably the most hotly tipped band on the rejuvenated shoegaze…

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SEE: Ellie Bleach brings the baroque to ‘He Bought Me Nikes’

LONDON singer-songwriter Ellie Bleach taps into the spirit of baroque pop on her latest and very fine self-released single, “He Bought Me Nikes”. With a voice like the finest smokey…

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EP REVIEW: Trunky Juno – ‘Too Many Teeth’

TRUNKY JUNO has been called ‘lo-fi’ in an attempt to slot him nicely into an ever more complicated musical map. And while some of the trademarks of that sub- (micro-…

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NEWS: Andy Shauf announces benefit live streams

THE EXCELLENT Canadian baroque pop auteur Andy Shauf has announced a brace of live-streaming events for next Tuesday, June 30th. The shows, which will stream live from his home in…

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SEE: Imogen Clark’s ‘My Own Worst Enemy’ is country-rock empowerment

OUTTA the mountains of New South Wales, Imogen Clark has released a video for “My Own Worst Enemy”, the second track to be culled from her upcoming six-tracker The Making…

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TRACK: Grizzly Coast invites you to her ‘Party of One’

FOR so many of us, music not only a delight but an escape, a world in which we can live freely and joyously; and this is just as true of…

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SEE: Toxic Avenger’s ‘Mandala’ has the Gallic groove

SIMON DELACROIX, aka French producer Toxic Avenger, is a man with many strings to his bow. He DJs worldwide, won awards for his computer game soundtracks, and plies a nice…

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Track: McHifi – ‘Bunker to Bunker’: McAlmont’s return

DAVID MCALMONT is back! He’s back! Owner of one of the most effortlessly great, yet most underappreciated British voices of the last quarter-century, David has released his first new material…

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TRACK: Liam Mour’s ‘Ode To Youth’ weaves and Warps

AN ANALOGUE synth figure comes chattering in; it morphs and builds and flexes with echoey overtones. It’s joined by a haunting melodic figure, swathed in distance and haunting half-remembrance. The…

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