Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Sedibus drop visuals for the superb, spacey excursion of ‘Unknowable’, returning to the planet we call ‘Earth’

HE MAY have entered his sixth decade on this particular rock spinning in space – and don’t even get me started on the passage of time, I mean how can…

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News: Yann Tiersen announces worldwide tour dates, including London’s legendary Roundhouse; watch the video for ‘Poull Boujer’ from August’s ‘Kerber’

BRETON composer Yann Tiersen has shared the mesmerising new video for “Poull Boujer”, the latest track he’s divulged from his August album for Mute, Kerber – you can watch that…

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See: Fatboi Sharif & Roper Williams – ‘Stigmata’: a dark, hallucinatory rap chemistry

CHEMISTRY students, listen up good. Here’s a new formula to examine. Take the wired, wild inventiveness of a Kool Keith; introduce it to the in-your-grill breaks innovation of MF DOOM;…

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Album review: The Catenary Wires – ‘Birling Gap’: Amelia and Rob take a look at how we’re doing as an island in folk-rock and fuzzpop

AMELIA FLETCHER and Rob Pursey have been making intelligent British indiepop together through more incarnations than your current, faithful scribe cares to shake a stick at, and thus that stick…

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See: Novelty Island invites you to his Mersey archipelago for the baroque piano pop of ‘Listen’

NOVELTY ISLAND, much like Coral Island but not so much Hilbre Island, though that’s weird in its own way, is part of the mythical archipelago of offshore Liverpudlian islands of…

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See: Matt Evans’ ‘Firn’, an evocation of geology, loss, piano and violin wound in tape decay, comes abstracted with VR visuals

THE LOSS of a life partner, an intimate; for many of us an unimaginable experience, and one that words would fail to convey, either in the expression of or the…

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Album review: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Noteland’: intelligent, warm and melodic jazz improv from Canadian collective

LADIES and gentlemen of the more recherché musical persuasion: introducing a new act to especially intrigue the weird jazzers among you, Peace Flag Ensemble, an experimental collective drawn from various…

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See: Adam Stafford – ‘Threnody For February Swallows’: grand avant-classical minimalism cautions against climate change

FALKIRK’S Adam Stafford, the film-maker and folk artist whose lockdown notebook album Diamonds Of A Horse Famine we warmly embraced here last summer – not least because it contained the…

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Track: Cameron Knowler – ‘Lena’s Spanish Fandango’: a tender and plaintive Americana air

TEXAN solo guitar practitioner and melodicist Cameron Knowler – whose lovely, exploratory album with Eli Winter, Anticipation, we fully embraced in early March – has announced he’s to unveil his…

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See: LIP TALK takes a dayglo synthpop brush to endless consumerism on ‘Bargain Day’

SARAH K. PEDINOTTI, the Brooklyn experimental popster who guises as LIP TALK, and who we last saw see-sawing twixt sin and virtue on the psychedelic synthpop of “More”, has dropped…

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