Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Arca’s ‘Mequetrefe’ is shattered-mirror futurism

XL RECORDINGS’ avant-pop futurist Arca has premiered a new track, “Mequetrefe,” ahead of forthcoming album Kick i, which XL is releasing next Friday, June 26th (with a vinyl press available…

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SEE: Van Dammes’ garagey plea for a ‘Tax Free World’

HELSINKI’S bubblegum garage punks Van Dammes are, like most of us, making the best of a bad situation in midsummer 2020. With the cancellation of their European tour – during…

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ALBUM REVIEW: McCarthy – ‘The Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth’

IF YOU’RE an old-skool, proper indie kid (and full disclosure, I count myself among that number), with campaign medals from the C86 wars – you saw action on the Creation,…

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NEWS: Eno collaborations to get expanded reissue

BRIAN ENO, the father of modern ambient music, is set to reissue two collaborative albums from the 1990s via All Saints Records. Eno/Cale’s Wrong Way Up and Eno/Wobble’s Spinner have…

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TRACK: Long Faces bring the Canterbury vibe on ‘Sail Away’

SOMETIMES the musical DNA of a city seeps into your bones. At first listen the fourth release from London-Leeds-based alt-rock quintet The Long Faces, “Sail Away”, would seem to give…

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SEE: Siv Jakobsen’s ‘Anywhere Else’ is a fragile folk arrow to your chest

RISING Norwegian folk artist Siv Jakobsen has a voice that is at once sibilant and honeyed, yet so, so fragile. And in a recent Instagram post, she confessed that her…

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SAY PSYCH: ALBUM REVIEW: Paint – ‘Spiritual Vegas’

STEPPING outside his home musical turf, the Allah-Las for the second time, songwriter and guitarist Pedrum Siadatian is poised to exhibit the latest deeply coloured, impressionistic canvas he has produced…

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SEE: the fine English psych whimsy of Jeremy Tuplin’s ‘Space Folk’

“I BELIEVE in magic / space magic … put on your unicorn jacket, covered in bat ships.”. So exhorts Somerset’s Jeremy Tuplin in the opening lines of his current single,…

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NEWS: Slowdive’s debut gets the flaming treatment

SLOWDIVE’S 1991 debut LP for Creation, Just For A Day, is set to get a limited flame-coloured 180-gramme pressing by Resident Records. The album, which was slated by the British…

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NEWS: trio of Brian Setzer albums set for the wax treatment

THREE classic albums by rockabilly royalty Brian Setzer albums are set for a vinyl issue on July 24th. Surfdog Records will be releasing the two compilations, The Brian Setzer Orchestra’s The…

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