Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: Cassandra Jenkins – ‘Michelangelo’: subtle, haunting Americana

NEW YORK folkie Cassandra Jenkins has stepped away from the world of self-releasing on her own Cassandra Complex imprint to ink her signature for Brooklyn’s Ba Da Bing, which imprint…

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SEE: The Telescopes – ‘Strange Waves’: languid, dirty and all the good things

STEPHEN LAWRIE’S The Telescopes are old hands at this beautifully dirty, scuzzy psych-rock game – but don’t think for a second that means they’ve lost an ounce of potency, as…

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TRACK: Felid – ‘Midnight Lover’: Bristol producer brings languid piano grace – his debut EP’s out now

AFTER initially making his mark as exactly half of cool electropop duo Mauwe, Bristol-based, South African-born Felid, aka Jay Rodger, struck out on his own during 2020 with a clutch…

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SEE: John Smith – ‘Friends’: honey-voiced folk salutes those dear to us

A SIMPLE name, perhaps, but far from simple tunesmithery: John Smith is coming into 2021 with positivity and a grab-bag of songs to beguile you. Essex born but raised on…

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TRACK: A Winged Victory For The Sullen – ‘So That The City Can Begin To Exist’

THAT delicious combination of Stars of the Lid amniotic drone wizard Adam Wiltzie, and pianist and composer Dustin O’Halloran, are poised and ready to release their new album, the music…

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SEE: Tamar Aphek – ‘Russian Winter’: power trio scorcher will thaw your January

SHE’S pretty much already Tel Aviv’s favourite guitar-wielding daughter, Tamar Aphek; and if you like your power trios full of flame and energy and neo-psych atmospheres akin to the Jimi…

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SEE: Jon Mueller – ‘Welcome’: glorious drone textures from Wisconsin

WISCONSIN musician? Sound artist? Explorer? Curator? – all of these things, Jon Mueller is always seeking new confluences of thought and sound. He may be best known to you as part of…

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SEE: Cathal Coughlan – ‘Song Of Co-Aklan’: Cork’s devilish genius is once more to the breach

CATHAL COUGHLAN, the devilish genius behind such acts as Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions, has always been a joyous thorn in the side of Irish alternative music; erudite, scathing, never…

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TRACK: IsoPHeX – ‘Doppelgänger’: haunting, propulsive ‘tronica from North Wales

CAE GWYN RECORDS is a little label out in Snowdonia which quietly goes about the business of releasing excellent tunes well-springing from the Welsh underground – which is what you…

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SEE: The monochrome video for The Lathums’ ‘Foolish Parley’

BE SURE: if 2020 didn’t stop ’em, it’s pretty unlikely that whatever weird curveballs 2021 has to bowl at us, this year won’t trouble the rise of Wigan’s new favourite…

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