Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

Track: Kid Acne digs deep in the crate for the prime illbient of ‘NEON FOGOU’

YORKSHIRE hiphop? Yep. Bring it. BRING. IT. ON. Lad. Comin’ atcha straight outta God’s Own Country, Kid Acne is burrowing deep down into the world of the cheese dream to…

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News: Spiritualized return with a new album and a tour for ’22; hear ‘Always Together With You’

ONE of the best bands you’ll ever commune with live should you get the chance, Spiritualized, are set to return in 2022 with a new album, Everything Was Beautiful, due…

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Track: Rival Consoles – ‘I Like’: generative, alienated and conversational, an off-kilter marriage of speech and silicon

RIVAL CONSOLES are on the home straight towards the release of a new dance-collaborative album, Overflow, in the first days of December, and as you’d expect it’s pristine and beautiful…

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See: The Forms return from a decade away with the excellently spectral, whispering ‘All Souls Day’

QUEENS, New York’s The Forms have been on sabbatical for, well, quite a while now, it’s fair to say. Their last album, Derealization, came out on fellow Five Boroughs label…

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Track: Mumble Tide’s ‘Noodle’ is a blurry, shredding scuzz-pop gem – they’re on tour at the end of the month

GINA and Ryan, the Bristol bedroom pop duo trading as Mumble Tide, have a lot of fun while delivering the goods. They’re not precious, but still so punchy; avoid the…

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News: Mysterious Bristol breaks scientist Claude Cooper announces a full album for January and drops ‘Stan’s Plan’; it’s so deliciously dirty

IMAGINE for a second we’re sat in a great pub, in Bristol – say The Christmas Steps, maybe, or the Bag O’Nails – and let’s further push the fanciful that…

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See: Landscape-loving Leeds folksters Crake sign for Fika and reveal the breathy tranquillity of ‘Lamb’s Tail’

WITH a brace of cassettes, a couple of digital singles (2019’s “Dear Natalie” and this April’s Four Tracks) sandwiching a one-off 7″ for Nebraska’s Saddle Creek, “Enough Salt (For All…

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Album review: David Lance Callahan – ‘English Primitive I’: raw punk-raga and a septet of scorching tales

OVER two phases of potent reports from the real England, with an interregnum of two decades between, David Lance Callahan and The Wolfhounds have consistently filed detailed documentation from the…

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News: Penelope Isles’ second glorious album for Bella Union arrives this week – there’s an extensive UK tour, too

PENELOPE ISLES, the gorgeous Brighton via Cornwall and Isle of Man combo led by brother and sister Jack and Lily Wolter, have some rather excellent news for lovers of bright,…

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Premiere: The Burning Hell invite you to dishevelled folk-punk-funk party offshore with the ‘Bird Queen Of Garbage Island’

CRIKEY, it’s actually been 13 whole years now since the singular, wholly erudite, wonderfully articulate vision of Mathias Kom arrived in the wider world with that split 7″ with Jenny…

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