Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Death By Unga Bunga – ‘Egocentric’: don’t be a dick, say Norway’s power punkers

WITH a new album, Heavy Male Insecurity, just around the corner, Norwegian power-pop punkers Death By Unga Bunga have released a video for another come-hither, “Egocentric”, which you can watch below.…

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TRACK: Panteon – ‘Waking Waiting’: lighter-than-air alt.folk explores the void at the end of the affair

YVONNE AMBRÉE is an artist currently based in Berlin who writes, records and produces music under the nom-de-musique Panteon. She has a particular way with an airy, fragile folk melody…

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Hannah Peel announces March album: see the video for ‘Emergence In Nature’

HANNAH PEEL is a true renaissance woman and arguably the most musically multifaceted artist at work in the UK at the present time. She’s recently been curating and presenting BBC Radio…

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TRACK: Graywave – ‘Before’: shoegaze nocturne teases for EP

JUST before Christmas, Backseat Mafia had the absolute privilege of premiering “Like Heaven”, a brilliant surge of dream pop haze and melody from Graywave, the musical project of the West…

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NEWS: Cheval Sombre announces February album for Sonic Cathedral

CHRIS PORPORA makes very, very beautiful and hushed music as Cheval Sombre – and makes it very much at his own pace; he is, as we shall see, very much…

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TRACK: The Damn Straights – ‘Blow It Up’: one minute fifty-eight of lyrical fire

THE DAMN STRAIGHTS: who they? I hear you say. Well, as if proving gestalt theory – if you’ll allow me to don my professor specs a sec, that a transactional…

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PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal

YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Jon Mueller – ‘Family Secret’: an immersive drone palimpsest

Family Secret is a journey of deep interiority: it's implicit that it be served fresh, after dark, suitably lit with no distractions. Clever, eerie and beautiful, it's an album that will continue to reward you

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TRACK: Renée Reed – ‘Fast One’: potent, dreamlike alt.folk from Louisiana

HAILING from Lafayette, Louisiana, Renée Reed has signed for Austin label Keeled Scales and released a single, the impressionistic, delightfully dreamy alt.folk of “Fast One”. Listen below. It’s a many-faceted thing…

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SEE: Kalbells – ‘Purplepink’: cosmic psychedelic disco to the max

KALBELLS are one of those fun, creative side gigs, an adjunct to another band which, having animated with the spark of lifeforce, has gained a vitality all of its own.…

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