Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Ailsa Tully – ‘Parasite’: a bass-led tune with masked lyrical steel

HAILING from Welsh border country, Ailsa Tully is a singer-songwriter whose instrument of choice, the bass, brings a new slant to the crowded sphere of singer-songwriting. We fell pretty hard…

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NEWS: Telex announce ‘This Is Telex’ comp for Mute; see ‘Moskow Diskow’

BELGIAN synthpop originators ‘n’ pranksters Telex have announced they’re going into partnership with Mute, the very first realisation of which is a career retrospective in This is Telex, a new…

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TRACK: Bill Stone – ‘Purple’: lost psych-folk nugget gets a reissue

YOU MAY think we’ve been there, got the T-shirt, seen it all where it comes to long-lost psych singer-songwriters of the Sixties and Seventies. Yep, we’ve adored and come to…

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SEE: The Lottery Winners feat. Frank Turner – ‘Start Again’: begs to be sung with a can aloft

JANUARY – I mean you could paraphrase Malcolm Middleton, at the time formerly of Arab Strap here, who had some choice and entirely memorable words to say of autumn in…

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TRACK: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘Not For That Hour, Nor For That Place’: modern composition with electronica glimmer

RUTGER HOEDEMAEKERS is the most recent addition to 130701’s almost obscenely strong and talented stable of artists working at the forefront of modern composition. You may not yet have come…

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Music

SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘For You Are The One’: dark romance and the swing of the violin

THE UNDERGROUND YOUTH, Manchester-forged and currently Berlin-based – and can’t you so hear that city bleeding through their sound? – have today released the video for the gravel-voiced, folksy swing…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Yvette Janine Jackson – ‘Freedom’: two suites of free expression of the Black experience

If real, unafraid, powerful sonic architecture, dialogue and expression is your thing - and in terms of consciousness, maybe it should be - then this record is essential. But enter steeled and go carefully, friend

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SEE: The lyric video for Drive-By Truckers’ ‘Tough To Let Go’

IT’S AN album that came out of nowhere; Drive-By Truckers’ The New OK grew from a lockdown EP, something to occupy crack musicians after their last album, The Unraveling, collecting…

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PREMIERE: bolomite jr. – ‘Ants’: hallucinatory soundscapery from Philly

BEN CALHOUN is, by day, a carpenter in the construction industry, keeping body and soul together with a craftsman’s skill; the better to set up him up for when he…

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Bleach Lab announce EP for March – hear the blissful glide of ‘Old Ways’

FORMED up in the wooded hills of Buckinghamshire, since relocated south of the Thames, Bleach Lab have an appreciation of the good things; think the Cocteau Twins, think Mazzy Star,…

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