Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Conrad Clipper – ‘Say The Name’: enveloping piano textures pave way for April album

CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He is, as the prepared and programmed element…

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SEE: Departure Lounge – ‘Australia’: Peter Buck joins cult faves for a glorious, jangly nugget

CULT favourites from back when the Nineties became the Noughties, you can’t accuse Departure Lounge of not having ambition on their new single, “Australia” – if that wasn’t enough a…

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TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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SEE: Raine Hamilton – ‘Brave Land’: gorgeous chamber bluegrass tune launches new album; live-streamed show tonight

RAINE HAMILTON, the chamber-folk artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in musical family and learned her chops early; in fact, her parents met in a rock band in the 1970s…

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NEWS: Ty Segall and Cory Hanson issue ‘She Is A Beam’ 10″ on Drag City; hear the lead track

CAST your mind back to the good old days of 2015. Y’know, gigs, pints, going anywhere. Good times. We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Way back then, fuzzmeister Ty Segall…

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EP REVIEW: Lizzie Reid – ‘Cubicle’: cathartic beauty from young Glaswegian

Lizzie Reid's Cubicle is a properly excellent debut from the young Glaswegian, with moments of real cathartic beauty

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SEE: Sophie Morgan – ‘Always’: a sweet song for the lonely

A SOLE trumpeter plays a lonely air on the riverside terrace, and is joined by a dashingly besuited fellow, stage left, maybe a little bit Gatsby; we glimpse Sophie in…

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NEWS: Dark Horse Records announce a career-spanning Joe Strummer comp featuring unreleased tracks

DARK HORSE RECORDS, the label founded by George Harrison in 1974, has announced that it is to issue a solo years-spanning best-of looking at Joe Strummer’s career after The Clash.…

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SEE: Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – ‘Jail Material’: deliciously dirty US underground trio return

THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD FERRIES, the loud and deliciously, abrasively proud trio brought together by Shellac’s mighty Bob Weston, Chris Brokaw, of Come and Codeine, and Elisha Wiesner, otherwise of Kahoots, have…

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SEE: Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans – ‘Bad Day’ cornering a brilliantly thrashy alt.pop nugget

FORMER Brilliant Corners singer Davey Woodward is fashioning rather lovely, lo-fi, alt.folk indiepop these days, along with The Winter Orphans – a quintet rescued from the chill winds atop Spaniorum…

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