Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: LIP TALK glories in the angelic modular flight of ‘Solar Return’ – psychedelic synthpop as it always should be

FLYING high, flying free, with an absolutely gorgeous line in glittery, psychedelic synthpop, LIP TALK – the musical avatar of New Yorker Sarah K Pedinotti – has returned to the…

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Track: Arandel celebrates the release of ‘InBach vol.2’ with the stirring space pop of ‘Fabula’

ARANDEL, the French artist whose album of expansions and reinterpretations – often, complete genre reshapings – of the works of the great Johann Sebastian, InBach, received deserved acclaim upon its…

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See: Table Scraps come firing back with ‘Threads’ ahead of a post-apocalyptic September set

BRUM’S garage-psych-doom power trio Table Scraps have, like the rest of us, been busy frying their heads and kicking anxious heels indoors for like: doesn’t it feel like forever now?…

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Track: Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters drop the glimmer of ‘Hindsight is 20-20’, with a September completion of their three-album cycle in hand

HAILING from two great port cities – Kiel, on the German Baltic coast, in the case of Ulrich Schnauss, and Liverpool, in the case of erstwhile Engineers guitarist Mark Peters…

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Premiere: Lazy Daze blows away the cobwebs with the sweet indiepop breeze of ‘Reminiscing’

IT’S ALWAYS an absolute pleasure for us here at Backseat Mafia to be invited to premiere a new artist who brings the quirky thrill to music, has that excitement of…

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Album review: Sennen – ‘Widows (Expanded Edition)’: now twice the size, Noughties shoegaze torchbearers’ debut packs a glorious punch

WHEN shoegaze was so cruelly traduced by the British inkies, dazzle-eyed by their enthralment with the twin coming of grunge and early Britpop, us aficionados shed a quiet tear for…

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See: Bureau B tease for the Faust boxset with unreleased cine footage from Gunther Wüsthoff to accompany ‘Fernlicht’, from the mythical ‘Punkt’ album

WITH the recent news that Hamburg’s excellent imprint Bureau B is marking the half-century of Faust with a box set entitled Faust 1971-1974 in October (and already available to order – for…

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News: Black Dice fire back into the ring with their first album in nearly a decade; watch the video for ‘White Sugar’

BLACK DICE, the dub motorik sonic sprites who came blasting out of Rhode Island before the turn of the century with awe-inspiring drone-percussive mantras such as “Endless Happiness”, are back…

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Track: Dominic Wolf brings a fine indie- electronica wonkiness out to play with ‘Fool’

HAILING from the buzzing East London scene, Dominic Woolf is on a mission to seduce with a kaleidoscopic approach to a hazy leftfield indiepop, as you can hear on his…

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News: As bdrmm blow out the first birthday candle on the release of ‘Bedroom’ there’s a series of celebratory events, starting tonight

WITH East Yorkshire’s shoegaze princes bdrmm blowing out the candle on the first birthday cake of their cracking debut album, Bedroom, the band have lined up a week of events…

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