Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: The Elephant Trees – ‘Day 42’: counting the lockdown days with breezy indie funk

DOING the good and steadfast work, Leeds’ Come Play With Me is one of those organisations whose praises we should all sing; deeply involved in supporting the Leeds grassroots scene…

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Track: SORBET – ‘Only For The Young’ feat. Arborist: Irish talents combine for a track of power and intelligence

CHRIS W RYAN, the restlessly creative, multidisciplinary producer who is guising as SORBET for his latest project, roaming freely and with taste sans frontières – selecting and blending as he…

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See: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘I Feel Fine’: LA dream poppers’ smooth, vampiric caress sets us up for their July album

LOS ANGELINO trio Tashaki Miyaki really do put the dream into dreampop, with a deliciously languorous, hazy cast to their music, which seems to call on the Mary Chain, Lush,…

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News: Squarepusher’s thrilling, insane ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ gets a silver jubilee reissue; revel in the deep acid of ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’

NOW THIS … this is sexy news for the lover of the weird and the wired and the warped (and, serendipitously, the Warp). Squarepusher’s hyperactive, insane, thrilling debut album for…

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See: Helvetia – ‘New Mess’: Duster and Built to Spill’s Jason Albertini makes a righteous fuzz racket with an album to follow

TIME to get dirty and righteously fuzz-rocky, with a Swiss angle; Helvetia is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jason Albertini, exactly one third of San Jose’s Duster and bassist for the lovely Built to Spill from…

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KMRU – ‘Argon’: marrying Berlin ambience with Kenyan gleam in a masterful shimmer

DIVIDING his time between that crucible of leftfield musical innovation, Berlin, and Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, Joseph Kamaru has been self-releasing seductive music for a number of years now;…

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See: Seefeel release a digital EP, ‘Reduct’, ahead of their May reissues; see the video for ‘Burned’

WITH their comprehensive (and wholly exciting for those of us who fell for their exploratory, dubby charms the first time round) reissue campaign for Warp under way and those later…

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Track: Dave Keuning – ‘The Fountain’: The Killers’ guitarist readies to spread his wings with a second solo album – hear a cracking first track

SPREADING his creative wings for a second time following 2019’s surnamed-only outing Prismism, The Killers guitarist and founding member Dave Keuning is due to release a long-player, A Mild Case…

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See: Sunglasses For Jaws – ‘What Does It Look Like?’: enter the swinging, funky world of Frank and disappear through his mirror

WHILST, in other, less trippy lives, being a perfectly tessellated and readymade rhythm section for acts including Sinead O’Brien, Geowulf, Nick Waterhouse et al, bassist David Bardon and drummer Oscar Robertson…

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Track: Catching Flies – ‘GLY’: a sunshiney slice of summer downbeatz

THE LONDON producer of chilled, intelligent summer downbeatz Catching Flies – known to friends and family as George King – has returned with a cool evening breeze of a new…

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