Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

REVIEW: Filtergeist’s ‘Invocation EP’ is one for the Chain Reaction heads

US BEATS stable Loot Recordings has welcomed Indian producer Aditya Prabhu to its roster. Recording as Filtergeist, Aditya has begun to carve out a name for himself in the past…

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Gist – ‘Interior Windows’

CARDIFF’S Young Marble Giants subverted the revolution while the fires were still lit. In an age when guitars were razor-loud and lyrics were spat, the Welsh four-piece turned it right…

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TRACK: Sunderland’s Sly Hand’s fiery debut, ‘Big Pharma’

FORMED just last year, Sunderland duo Sly Hand’s sound was forged in the fire of family trauma, which brought two hitherto estranged cousins = Andrew (vocals and guitars) and Paul…

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NEWS: Alex Taylor, RIP: the indie world pays tribute

AS THE sad news of the death of Alex Taylor, singer of fuzzpop legends The Shop Assistants and The Motorcyle Boy, reverberated around the indie music world, peers and contemporaries…

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TRACK: swim in Lindsay Munroe’s ‘River’

JUST pause a second, and see Lindsay Munroe. Just a brief pause, before you press the right-cursor on her latest track, “River”. I’ll pretty much guarantee you that you’ll utter…

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SEE: Ane Brun releases ‘Honey’ ahead of autumn album, UK tour

NORWEGIAN songstress Ane Brun has released the fifth in a series of monthly tracks ahead of an as-yet-untitled eighth studio set. The album is due to be in the racks…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Braids soar on ‘Shadow Offering’

“YOU want me to love myself, more than I love anyone else / I tire of myself sometimes, just like I tire of you … do I need you, do…

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NEWS: Shop Assistants’ singer reported to have died

IT’S been reported across C86 newsgroups and fan sites over the past 48 hours that Alex Taylor, dulcet singer with Edinburgh’s great and ramshackle Shop Assistants and later of The…

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TRACK: bathe in the sun of PELA’s ‘South Of’

OFF THE back of their debut single, “You Got Me” last month, South London’s PELA have shared their second outing, “South Of”. It’s a beguiling, dazed bliss of a track,…

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TRACK: Red River Dialect frontman shares ‘Ballad of Ross Wyld’

DAVID MORRIS, proud Falmothian and singer with Red River Dialect – the six-piece who’ve brought us some of the most vital of British folk-rock over the past decade – has…

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