Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

ALBUM REVIEW: The WITCH – ‘Introduction’: cracking Zambian garage nugget unearthed

You thought every stone had been overturned in the quest for any last garage-punk nuggets of note? You'd be wrong. Get your white drainpipes and chelsea boots on for this cracking Zambian garage album from the early Seventies

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SEE: Bad Colours – ‘Feelin’ Like’: future breaks drop teases for debut album

IBE SOLIMAN, the London-born, Maryland-raised, and now Brooklyn-based DJ and producer, likes to guise up for the world of music he produces as Bad Colours; and he’s set to release…

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NEWS: Ólafur Arnalds announces details of short film, ‘When We Are Born’; watch the trailer

ICELAND’S modern compositional phenomenon Ólafur Arnalds has announced details of a new short film, entitled When We Are Born, which is set to premiere worldwide on March 7th. You can watch the…

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SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Pale Horse Rider’: the album’s delayed, but it’s so worth the wait

AS HIS second solo album for Drag City approaches, LA’s Cory Hanson – Wand frontman and on his own clock, potent (and a little dark) psych-country explorer, has released a…

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NEWS: World of Echo to release Mosquitoes 10″ – come bathe in the no wave dub of ‘Strobeluck’

LONDON label World of Echo, the fledgling imprint which has emerged from the rather excellent record emporium of that name on Columbia Road, E2, has announced the second release in…

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TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry

FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse,…

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SEE: Karate, Guns & Tanning – ‘Graffiti Children’: deliciously hazy dreampop with sharp edges

THE VIRAL world we’re all slowly swimming through, occasionally dashed on the rocks of what the fuck? means we’ve all made adjustments, remote learning, collaborating, working – which, as luck…

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NEWS: Belgian shoegazers Slow Crush reissue ‘Aurora’; see the new video for ‘Aid And Abet’

IF YOU’RE the kinda person who likes shoegazing to be actual, y’know, shoegazing – that deep, complex bleed of guitars and thicketed, soundscapes, the one which Slowdive do in an…

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TRACK: Simon Provencher – ‘Choix multiples’: iterative experimenta for clarinet and guitar

KNOWN primarily for contributing a particularly jagged and jittery way with a riff to the work of Montréalais dance-punk outfit VICTIME, Simon Provencher is spreading his wings and revealing a…

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NEWS: Fruit Bats announce lush new album for Merge; see the video for The Balcony

CHICAGO’S pristine and lovely Fruit Bats, who’ve been providing us with excellent folk-rock that completely illustrates the wondrous magic of music when they’re flying high (and they mostly are, let’s…

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