Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: With their album out today, Cali shoegazers The Acharis announce a French and UK tour; see the video for the whispery fuzz gem, ‘False Positive’

HAILING from California’s Bay Area, and more specifically Oakland for the precision buffs amongst you, The Acharis may just have made one of the darker shoegaze gems of the year…

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Track: Sam Redmore splashes with the sunny Latin jazz of ‘Nagu’ from his debut Jalapeno 7″

EVER a label with an eye out for new funk talent, Jalapeno has hit the man vein yet again with the signing of Birmingham’s Sam Redmore to the dotted line.…

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Track: Chris Liebing unveils the vocal techno euphoria of ‘Circles’, feat. Tom Adams

HIS CAREER behind the decks and in the studio, fostering the techno scene in his home city of Frankfurt, spanning its third decade now, Chris Liebing shows no signs of…

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News: Dimple Discs to stage Sack, Keeley and Dragon Welding at the legendary Lexington next month

DIMPLE DISCS, the small-is-beautiful home of Damien O’Neill, Cathal Coughlan and others, is staging a trio of bands associated with the label at Islington’s legendary The Lexington early next month…

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Track: Leo Abrahams’ ‘Harm Organ’ refracts solo guitar through a hall of ‘tronica mirrors

LONDON-based guitarist, composer and sonic manipulator Leo Abrahams has shared another track of out-six string journeying from next month’s album for figureight, Scene Memory II. it’s called “Harm Organ”, it’s…

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See: Mario Batkovic – ‘Repertio’ feat. Clive Deamer & MXLX: the accordion flurrying into an unexpected breakbeat future

IT BEGINS with slow, almost marine tones, for a brief bar or two; but without warning it launches as a whole other being, a busy Seventies’ cop show break underpinning…

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Track: Bad Idea join the Come Play With Me Singles Club with a shoegaze gem in ‘Crash’

IT’S always a really good idea to keep your ear to the ground with what’s happening at Leeds label Come Play With Me’s singles club; the Yorkshire label is one…

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See: Benjamin Lazar Davis drops the future indie-R’n’B gem ‘Snow Angels’

MY THOUGH, he’s quite the singular talent, Benjamin Lazar Davis, isn’t he? The multi-instrumentalist and composer (look, these tunes are so much more than plain written), whose day job sees…

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Album review: Penelope Isles – ‘Which Way To Happy’: Jack and Lily line up a second set of ambitious, technicolour pop psych

PENELOPE ISLES, the gorgeous Brighton combo led by brother and sister Jack and Lily Wolter, are releasing their second album this week – that’s cause for joy as winter looms.…

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EP review: Lindsay Munroe’s ‘Softest Edge’ packs so much into four tracks; she can sing literally anything the human soul can feel

MANCHESTER’S Lindsay Munroe is, it’s fair to say, someone whose voice you can fall for on first encounter. I speak from personal experience here; I’d been writing for Backseat Mafia…

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