Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

News: Stones Throw announce second album from Richmond, VA’s DJ Harrison – get low-slung with the excellent lead single, ‘Be Better’

RICHMOND, Virginia producer and multi-instrumentalist DJ Harrison is set to release his first full set for Stones Throw in four years, with Tales From The Old Dominion due in the…

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News: Beirut to release a double set of early and rare material, ‘Artifacts’, in the spring; delight in ‘Fisher Island Sound’

ZACH CONDON’s gorgeous Beirut are set to release an overview of their early years next spring – a project whch has burgeoned from a collection of early EPs into a…

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Album review: Scrimshire – ‘Nothing Feels Like Everything’: expansive, opulent soul-jazz with a real beating heart

ALBERT’S FAVOURITES is a label bringing the sounds of the South London scene to the world with heart; genuine heart, and care, and soul, in all iterations of that word.…

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See: Mystic Peach howl towards their debut EP with ‘It’s Not Their Future’

QUITE literally roaring out of the blocks with guitar shimmer and a satisfyingly British take on that Black Francis sccreeeeeaaam, Southampton’s Mystic Peach are making shapes for next month’s debut…

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Track: The Pop Group and Dennis Bovell, MBE drop ‘3:38’ ahead of next week’s collaborative heavy dub reworking of ‘Y’

WITH their collaborative long player just a week away now, Bristol dub-punk collective The Pop Group and bass overlord Dennis Bovell MBE have dropped one final taster of Y In…

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See: James Alexander Bright gets it on with Fink for ‘Sundown’: keeping the rays alive as the chill bites

AUTUMN has well and truly bitten; any Indian summer which we may have had is now truly receding in the rear-view mirror; drizzle has become the lingua franca. Time to…

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News: Cheval Sombre to release a new EP, including a Dead cover – see the video for ‘Althea’

CHRIS PORPORA, the artist whose twin album releases from earlier this year, Time Waits For No One and Days Go By, are the gentlest, brittlest sucker punches to the heart…

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News: Anita Lane’s ‘Sex O’Clock’ gets a 20th anniversary reissue come December; hear her Gil Scott-Heron cover, ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’

BAD SEEDS founder member and smouldering, potent artist in her own right, Anita Lane left us far too young this April, at the age of 61; her on-off solo career…

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See: A Certain Ratio tease for their November remixes set with a Dan Carey take on ‘Down & Dirty’

THERE’S to be no rest for the wickedly, insistently, incisively funky: A Certain Ratio, with the deservedly acclaimed ACR: Loco (our review, here) and a slew of excellent postscriptual EPs…

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Album review: Mildred Maude – ‘Sleepover’: From Cornwall with beautiful, incendiary love

SONIC CATHEDRAL: it may not be the most prolific of labels in terms of releases – but never mind the width; feel the quality. Just take a look back, wouldya,…

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