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Chris Sawle

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Sometime scribe and inveterate crate-digger, adoring all things C86, psych, soundtrack, breakbeat, electronica and post-rock from the toe of West Cornwall.
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Track: Jeshua – ‘IDK’: another dreampop cracker from the Glasgow school

  • February 26, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
DUNDONIAN Joshua Gray transposes into the musical sphere as Jeshua, and as such, plies a delightful, lo-fi yet soaring line in dreamy, gliding guitar pop which could easily have come…
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See: Zoon – ‘Was & Always Will Be’: mantric First Nation shoegaze

  • February 25, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
ZOON is an artist who’s fully busting it up Stateside, and you can so see why when you go swimming in the deep guitar scorch of his new single “Was…
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Track: Chad VanGaalen’s ‘Night Waves’ is lush and Velvetsy; live stream news

  • February 25, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
YOUR favourite leftfield Canadian songwriter, Chad VanGaalen, is shaping up to go public with his accolade as the World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener, his new album for Sub Pop on…
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See: Sarah McQuaid – ‘Charlie’s Gone Home’ (The St Buryan Sessions)@ folk excellence from the far west

  • February 25, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FOLK singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid undertook a perigrination from Madrid to the States to Ireland before arriving in mainland Britain’s ultima thule, the deep Penwith peninsula. She’s releasing a series of…
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Track: Oya Paya – ‘Pretty Slick’: bip-bippin’ with the lo-fi electro thang

  • February 24, 2021
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LIVERPUDLIAN lo-fi indie combo Oya Paya, who we last bumped into on our daily peramble gosh! all way back in December with the slacker-pop winter warmer of “Focus”, are back!…
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Track: New Bums – ‘Cover Band’: lamentin’ the life of the working combo

  • February 24, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
NEW BUMS, the duo of Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny and Skygreen Leopards’ Donovan Quinn, are all set to release their actually really lovely second album, Last Time I…
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News: Mute and Spoon’s Can live series to begin with ‘Live In Stuttgart 1975’ in May; hear an excerpt

  • February 24, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
MUTE and Spoon Records are proud to announce that they’ve got together in order to begin issuing a series of live performances by the legendary krautrock outfit Can, beginning with…
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Album review: Mike Lazarev – ‘Out Of Time’: a miniature soundtrack to an imaginary film

  • February 24, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
Mike's a man out of step with chronos maybe, but not with the muse. As with Sonic Cathedral's Cheval Sombre, who's beautiful album in a very different discipline we looked at just last week, Mike seems to have time troubling his heart; its grinding linearity, its inexorability; the way it makes you miss things, yearn for things, regret. It's a clever little record and a lovely one, too
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Track: The Phoenix Foundation with Fazerdaze – ‘Beside Yourself’: bright and trippy dream pop

  • February 24, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES have sought far and wide in their quest for musical fancies to bring forth unto us; and on the very tip of New Zealand’s North Island, they’ve found…
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Track: Ted Barnes feat. Michael Clarke – ‘Way Beyond This’: a delicate acoustic tune telling of the moment your lover leaves

  • February 24, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the…
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