Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Telefís – ‘Falun Gong Dancer’: Cathal Coughlan leads us round the weary world in sparse, grandstanding piano

CATHAL COUGHLAN has always been the straight-As kid with the (slightly demonic) pearly white smile and the pocket of stinkbombs in the school hall of indie music; he can’t resist…

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See: Alyssa Gengos shapes up for her 2022 album as a pretty awesome ‘Cheerleader Of The Universe’

LOS ANGELINO bedroom pop genius Alyssa Gengos is basically someone to completely watch in 2022. We’ve already nailed our colours to that mast on the back of her last single,…

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See: C Duncan brings the hymnal delicacy of ‘The Wedding Song’ to end the year – watch the animated lyric video

DELICATE Glaswegian songsmith C Duncan has doubled down on the glitter of last month’s single, “Alluvium”, with just one more song to round off the year and to keep you abreast…

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Track: NYC’s swoonsome The Shacks break out the tinsel on the double A, ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ / ‘Got To Be Christmas’

NEW YORK’S gorgeous psych-lite caressers The Shacks, the duo of guitarist-producer Max Shrager and singer-bassist Shannon Wise, who know a thing or two about Harpers Bizarre, The Free Design and…

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News: Sylph releases a new EP, ‘Ancient Hole’, featuring Regis, Terence Fixmer and others; watch a short film of three tracks

SYLPH, the new iteration and solo project of the former singer with South London post-punks S.C.U.M., Thomas Cohen, is rounding off his year with a final, four-track EP, Ancient Hole,…

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See: Beans on Toast leads us in a celebration of what it means to be ‘Humans’; he’s on tour, too

WITH his new album of acoustic optimism, Survival Of The Friendliest, out as of Friday gone and the first leg of a tour crisscrossing the islands already under way, London…

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Live review: Alabaster dePlume, The Cornish Bank, Falmouth, December 4th, 2021, plus gallery: a unique and sweary odyssey to Planet dePlume

“I LOVE this. I fucking love doing this.” Be aware: Angus Fairbairn, the poet, positivist and saxophonist who transposes into the world of music as Alabaster dePlume, is a completely…

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Album review: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Bill Callahan – ‘Blind Date Party’: a rolling thunder lockdown revue of the Drag City stable, cast in cover versions

NOTHING at all, really. That, for a lifer musician with new songs in the back pocket, older ones to take out and share with fans on the road across the…

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News: Christian Death’s defining US goth debut ‘Only Theatre Of Pain’ receives an expanded, deluxe reissue in the new year

LOVERS of all things Eighties (read: proper) goth, your attention please; LA’s Frontier Records, in partnership with Cult Epics, has announced it is to reissue Christian Death’s defining debut album,…

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Track: Joy Guidry explores their ‘Inner Child’ in throaty free jazz bassoon ahead of their February long-player

NEW YORK composer, bassoonist and Berlin Prize for Young Artists nominee Joy Guidry is an artist who likes to – nope, is compelled to – dive deep into the music…

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