Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: The video for Matt Emery’s ‘Anxiety Mist’: a samurai waiting for battle as told by solo cello

BRITISH composer Matt Emery, who calls the lovely Injazero Records home, has launched a series of recordings focusing on one instrument at a time; and for his first EP in…

View Post

View Post

Track: Sunflower Thieves -‘Don’t Mind The Weather’: a soothing, electronic folk paean to your safe space

AMY ILLINGWORTH and Lily Stury-Bolshaw, the Leeds-based musicians who fashion fine music together as Sunflower Thieves, have shared their new single “Don’t Mind The Weather”, ahead of its release as…

View Post

View Post

Penelope Trappes announces final album in her trilogy; hear the sultry electronic noir of ‘Nervous’

BRIGHTON-based, Australian-born mistress of noir electronica, Penelope Trappes, has announced that the concluding album of her Penelope trilogy will be out on her home of the past few years, Houndstooth,…

View Post

View Post

Track: Deniz Cuylan – ‘Object Of Desire’: a second luscious essay in solo guitar pastoralism

TURKISH multi-instrumentalist and composer Deniz Cuylan, whose altogether lovely experimental classical guitar essay “Flaneurs In Hakon” we fell for a fortnight back, has proved that he has plenty more guitar…

View Post

View Post

News: Secrets of Elements announces April album; hear the grand electronic sweep of ‘Cassini’

THE GERMAN composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Johann Pätzold, who records as Secret of Elements, has announced the release of his first album since 2011’s Minds. It’s to be entitled Chronos, and it’ll be…

View Post

View Post

Track: Reigning Sound – ‘A Little More Time’: Greg Cartwright’s garage band get the seven-year itch

CAST your mind back now: did you fall for the hip-shimmying rush of Reigning Sounds’ “I’ll Cry”, hitting the sweet garage spot wherein the classic Memphis soul sound smashed straight…

View Post

View Post

See: Conchúr White – ‘Vocation Vacation’: keeping one’s online life polished in a late-night tumblin’ tune

OUT OF Armagh with a swingin noir take on songwriting which seems to combine late-night whisky tumbler tunesmithery with, in the case of the single he’s dropping today, a little…

View Post

View Post

Track: Le Ren and Buck Meek cover Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Early Morning Rain’ with sweet delicacy

MONTREAL chanteuse Le Ren has gotten together with Big Thief’s solo guitarist Buck Meek for a tender, delicate rerub of Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot’s “Early Morning Rain”, which featured on…

View Post

View Post

See: The video for Telex’s ‘Dear Prudence’: Beatles cover unearthed for the forthcoming Mute compilation

BELGIAN synth visionaries-cum-pranksters Telex have dropped a video for their previously unreleased, recently discovered take on “Dear Prudence” – you can watch it below. Their take – treated with just…

View Post

View Post

News: Dinosaur Jr. announce April album for Jagjaguwar; see the animation for ‘I Ran Away’

YOUR favourite alt.rock shredder, J. Mascis – I mean are the guitar breaks in “Freak Scene” the best ever committed to tape? There’s a strong argument – has announced the…

View Post