0
0 Followers
0
  • About / Contact
Subscribe
Backseat Mafia
Backseat Mafia
  • News
  • Premiere
  • Track / Video
  • Album Reviews
  • Live Review
  • Interview
  • Donate!

Posts by author

Chris Sawle

1701 posts
Sometime scribe and inveterate crate-digger, adoring all things C86, psych, soundtrack, breakbeat, electronica and post-rock from the toe of West Cornwall.
  • Music
  • News
  • Track / Video

SEE: Sébastien Guérive – ‘Omega II’: off-world, glitchy soundscapes

  • January 30, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FRENCH composer and producer Sébastien Guérive has a really skin-shiveringly delightful way with an icy, glitchy techno landscape – as shown by his new single, “Omega II”, which has a…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • Track / Video

TRACK: Magnus John Anderson -‘Elkhorn’: studio wizard steps out with modern compositional piano

  • January 30, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
ONE OF the sea changes we’re seeing from all this viral upheaval is the emergence of artists finding their own voice in order to create, whereas previously they might have…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • News
  • Track / Video

TRACK: Field Works – ‘La’ali’: Arabic poetry and cosmic Americana preludes ninth instalment in the series

  • January 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
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,…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • Track / Video

TRACK: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘CYHSY 2005’; he’s playing a live-stream show tonight

  • January 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
WITH a rousing, sometimes raging, tour-de-force of an album, New Fragility, out in a couple of weeks, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have one final come-hither to drop, the retrospection of…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Album Reviews
  • Music
  • Track / Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Madlib – ‘Sound Ancestors’: beats genii’s wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey

  • January 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
Madlib's Sound Ancestors, produced by Four Tet, is the beats genii's wide-eyed, wide-open odyssey. Like a fractal pattern, the deeper you focus and the more you pull out, the more you see
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • Track / Video

SEE: Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler – ‘Marie’: honeyed sorrow from Bella Union

  • January 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
THE NEW album from Lost Horizons, the project of Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas, formerly of 4AD label mates Dif Juz, is a hugely ambitious affair. Not only…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • Track / Video

TRACK: Paris Youth Foundation – ‘The Back Seat’: reaching out for that old flame with stirring guitars

  • January 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
GEARING up for a 2020 round of the festivals in which their music is readymade for cans and arms aloft, Liverpool’s Paris Youth Foundation watched the whole circuit vanish in…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • Track / Video

SEE: Chaz Knapp – ‘My TMJ Pain Might Be An Abscess’: all hail the warm organ drune

  • January 29, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
DALLAS’S Chaz Knapp has a very particular way with an organ drone – or a drune, as he styles it – as you can hear on his forthcoming album, Organ…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • Track / Video

SEE: Khruangbin release video for ‘Dearest Alfred’ – and a Knxwledge mix, too

  • January 28, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
MORDECHAI, Khruangbin’s stunning third album from last summer, set the seal on their position in the music world; a critically adored brew of psych, funk, disco, dub and global influences,…
View Post
Share
View Post
  • Music
  • News
  • Track / Video

NEWS: The Coral announce album no.10, ‘Coral Island’; see ‘Faceless Angel’

  • January 28, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
ROLLOCKIN’ back in from their fastness on The Wirral, the inestimable The Coral, who’ve brought us so much off-kilter psych-pop joy in our lonely rooms since buccaneering into our world…
View Post
Share

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 83 84 85 86 87 … 171 Next
Popular
  • Live Review : Rob Corcoran and The Necessary Evils deliver a night of courage, hope and truth // Green Note London// April 3, 2026
    Live Review : Rob Corcoran and The Necessary Evils deliver a night of courage, hope and truth // Green Note London// April 3, 2026
  • Live Gallery: The Pogues celebrate Rum Sodomy & The Lash with fire and feeling in Sydney 05.04.2026
    Live Gallery: The Pogues celebrate Rum Sodomy & The Lash with fire and feeling in Sydney 05.04.2026
  • Feature:  Backseat Mafia's photographic tribute to Bluesfest Byron Bay
    Feature: Backseat Mafia's photographic tribute to Bluesfest Byron Bay
  • Live Gallery: Madison Beer Brings the Heat to Sydney 30.08.2024
    Live Gallery: Madison Beer Brings the Heat to Sydney 30.08.2024
  • Album Review: Carol Maia & Jeremy Gustin – ‘it’s nice to see a lake in your eyes’: an mpb moment to treasure from the Rio/Brooklyn partnership.
    Album Review: Carol Maia & Jeremy Gustin – ‘it’s nice to see a lake in your eyes’: an mpb moment to treasure from the Rio/Brooklyn partnership.
My Tweets
Social
Social
Backseat Mafia
The best in new and forgotten music

Website by Chris&Co.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.