Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Leron Thomas feat Iggy Pop – ‘In The City’: mixin’ the soulful and the grunge up to look in at the weird ways of the metropolis

ALTHOUGH nominally coming out of the worlds of the jazz and the funk, Leron Thomas is in no way the kinda artist who sees the narrow channels of genre or…

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See: Montreal singer-songwriter Geoffroy arrows to the heart of you with ‘Cold World’

GEOFFROY is a Quebecois singer-songwriter, surname elsewhere Sauvé, who has a brace of lush EPs and a similar number of albums under his belt for Bonsound. He’s one of those…

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Track: The Lottery Winners tickle your summertime taste buds with ‘Favourite Flavour’

FLOODED with pure catchiness aimed straight at your grin glands, the completely irrepressible Lottery Winners are straight outta Leigh with a song which summer itself might’ve designed, “Favourite Flavour”. Lyrically…

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News: Pole announces an August 12″ for Mute; hear the percussive mantra of ‘Rost’

WITH last year’s excellent, enveloping album Fading under his belt, Berlin’s legendary sonic master Stefan Betke, aka Pole, has just dropped a new track, “Rost”, which is taken from a…

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See: TOMÁ’s ‘Green’: ice-cool retro jazz-funk and fighting ibexes

ATOM is the forthcoming and wholly anagrammatical album of the Austrian-based, Bulgarian-born leftfield beats investigator Tomá Ivanov, known for the purposes of music as TOMÁ. His particular thing, he tells…

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News: Erland Cooper signs for Mercury KX, buries his latest album in the soil of Orkney as a three-year time capsule with a treasure hunt ensuing; watch a short film

SIGNING today with one of the leading modern compositional imprints, Decca/Mercury KX, Orcadian composer Erland Cooper has marked the occasion in a fascinating if not entirely expected way. He already…

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See: Rowan – ‘Nothing’s Gonna Change’: irresistible lo-fi guitar pop! from Cork trio, who also announced a Dublin date

A TRIO hailing from Cork with a bright indie-rock future hoving into view, Rowan have signed with the Los Angeles indie Beverly Martel and are gearing up for the release…

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See: The esoteric psilocybin dream of Fuzzy Lights’ ‘Sirens’: fine fenland acid folk preludes next week’s new album

A HIATUS of eight years hasn’t dimmed Fuzzy Lights as mysterious musical force, not one bit; quite the opposite, in fact. They’ve a new album, Burials, out at the end…

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News: Red Rum Club announce an October album with the slick, brassy pop of ‘Nightcalling’

LIVERPOOL’S upbeat popsters Red Rum Club are gonna be swinging into autumn with a new album, in which the sextet are gonna unveil a dastardly plan couched in well-turned tunesmithery…

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See: SCALPING whirl you through 360° in the crunch and spin of ‘Empty Cascade’

BRISTOL’S post-rave sonic guerillas SCALPING have followed up May’s single drop, “Empty Cascade” by doubling down and supplying that dark, heavy breaks muscle with a new 360° video, directed by Jason…

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