Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

See: Generation – ’21st Century Woman’: are our favourite Merseyside glamsters teetering on the edge?

LIVERPUDLIAN glamour trash punk brothers Generation are teetering on the edge of fratricide in their new video, ground down by the demands of rock ‘n’ roll, by cheap rum –…

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News: Sonic Cathedral unveil brilliant new signings, Horsegirl; hear ‘Ballroom Dance Scene’

NEVER a label to knowingly overlook a band of quality, Sonic Cathedral have unveiled a new signing in the shape of Chicago three-piece Horsegirl; yep, they’ve done it again. Come…

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See: Greywind – ‘Am I Asleep?’: Killarney siblings show a softer side, but still rock

THE ROCK synthesis of Irish siblings Steph and Paul O’Sullivan, Greywind are back after their dominating 2017 album Afterthoughts with a new single, which loses none of the anthemic rock catharsis…

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See: Birthday Ass – ‘Blah’: zero-fucks no-wave punk-funk fun!

PRIYA CARLBERG, vocalist with no-wave post-punk melange-stirrers Birthday Ass, has a vision deliciously at right angles with the world; jump in, but jump in sideways, with their new single “Blah”.…

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Track: Chloe Foy – ‘Left-Centred Weight’: luscious, hook-laden folk to welcome spring

AS 2021 stretches and tentatively decides to dangle an experimental leg out of bed you, like me, will be looking round for the first buds and flowers of spring; new…

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Track: Niklas Paschburg – ‘Little Orc’ (Uele Lamore Remix): an impressionistic and cinematic retake

FOLLOWING on from the experimental pop of “Bathing In Blue”, in tandem with British vocalist Millie Turner last November, modern compositional pianist and composer Niklas Paschburg has once more offered…

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Track: Gazelle Twin & NYX – ‘Deep England’; burrowing into the dank peat of a merrie old nation

THE DANK, dystopian country that is Merrie England is being scried through a glass darkly by Gazelle Twin in shadowy conceit with the NYX electronic drone choir, who are kicking…

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Track: The Catenary Wires – ‘Mirrorball’: Amelia and Rob twirl the indiepop glitter

AMELIA FLETCHER and Rob Pursey: a marriage of minds and music who’ve kept those of us who love love loved the C86 guitar pop sound so well musically fed down…

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Track: Lindsay Munroe – ‘Need A Ride’: Mancunian alt.blues riser finds strength in solitude

YOU CAN sum up Manchester’s Lindsay Munroe succinctly, thus: wow, that voice. Yours truly remembers dropping their spoon into my metaphorical cornflakes, jaw agape, as I first bathed in Lindsay’s…

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Premiere: R.O.C. – ‘Silver Highway’: a languid LA dream from Brixton electro collective

BRIXTON’S R.O.C, who bring the darkness and the devil-may-care to their particularly twisted twist on all things electro – I mean, who else would base a hypnotic, shadowy single for…

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