Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Angeles’: mellow LA country-psych with the darkest heart

BY DAY Cory Hanson is singer-guitarist with LA psych quintet Wand, but he also pursues a rather seductive solo vision: a very LA blur of blissful, rootsy psych, part-Laurel Canyon,…

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NEWS: Come ‘see’ Skinshape – he’s live streaming a free gig tomorrow

AFTER a brace of luscious albums in the latter half of last year, Umoja and Arrogance Is The Death Of Men (check out our reviews here and here, respectively), Will…

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Lizzie Reid – ‘Been Thinking About You’: jazzy swing with real heart, soul and devil-may-care

LIZZIE REID, the young Glaswegian songwriter who is a massive, massive new talent – no dissent now at the back, this is just how it is – has been melting…

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SEE: Visionist preludes his March album for Mute with ‘The Fold’

LONDON’S musical scryer Visionist has announced details of a new album, A Call To Arms which, after his 2017 LP Value for Big Dada, will be his debut for Mute. The…

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SEE: The video for Ben Harper’s ‘Black Beauty’: a proud, gospel soul rush

“IT WAS an honor to have been asked to write a song for this culturally vital documentary,” says singer-songwriting legend Ben Harper of “Black Beauty”, the song he’s dropped the…

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Home Counties – ‘Modern Yuppies’: angular punk-funk takes on the consumerist dream

HOME COUNTIES who, despite the name, are a five-piece happy to gaze askance at all the weird doings of modernity from the safety of Bristol, release their third, three-minute dose…

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SEE: John Paul Keith – ‘How Can You Walk Away’: raunchy soul blues lament gets visuals

WE’VE taken a look at this before here at Backseat Mafia, but at that point it was visually denuded as you might say: and given it’s a bit of a…

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TRACK: Neighbourhood Watch – ‘Focus Up’: Toronto quintet telling indie-rock tales of growing up

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH are a young five-piece outta Toronto with a really simple mission: they love making music about growing up. Clear, concise and ready in your ‘hood with melody and…

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SEE: Danny Elfman – ‘Sorry’: high, scouring prog-industrial from soundtrack giant

IT WAS quite a thing when ANTI- secured the signature of globe-straddling modern soundtrack composer extraordinaire Danny Elfman last year; yep, the Sunset Boulevard-based label which brings us Andy Shauf,…

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TRACK: Rachika Nayar – ‘The Trembling Of Glass’: an exciting voice in experimental guitar

HAILING from the borough of Brooklyn, ambient composer Rachika Nayar has left her previous nominative chrysalis as Rachika S behind to spread her wings as a potent ambient guitar sound…

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