Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

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

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…

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

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…

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

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,…

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

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…

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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,…

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

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…

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