Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

SEE: The lyric video for Horsey’s ‘Sippy Cup’: as if The Lemon Twigs were transposed into Brit culture

WELL, you gotta hand it to ’em; they picked their ingredients, they simmered them down, and they arrived somewhere bewitchingly odd. South London four-piece Horsey are as square a peg…

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TRACK: Melin Melyn – ‘Rebecca’: announcing Cymru’s latest quirk-psych crackers

GORKY’S. (There’s never any escaping Gorky’s, and how great they are, let’s face it. If you were really lucky, you actually could’ve seen them at the Hacienda.) Meilyr Jones. Gulp.…

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SEE: the cosmic anime for Battles’ ‘Sugar Foot’; remix EP out now on Warp

TRIPPY NYC art-rock outfit Battles have dropped a cosmic animation for their track “Sugar Foot”, featuring the gliding vocal talents of none other than Yes’s Jon Anderson, and visually referring…

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TRACKS: See the video for Femi Kuti’s ‘Pà Pá Pà’ and hear Made Kuti’s ‘Your Enemy’ ahead of February’s twin albums

AFROBEAT founding father and steely political activist Fela Kuti gifted us a wondrous back catalogue investigating jazz, funk, hiphop, rock, traditional Nigerian musics, so much more, before passing in 1997.…

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SEE: Arlo Parks – ‘Caroline’: extra UK dates for next summer

MAY WE talk of one of the artists to properly keep an eye on in ’21? We may? Excellent. Arlo Parks grew up in South-West London, a self-confessed tomboy, super-sensitive,…

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SEE: CAMERA announce their February album with the feedback motorik of ‘Kartoffelstampf’

NOW ENTERING their second decade as a band, Berlin’s CAMERA are pushing, to borrow the phrase of Ken Kesey, furthur; deeper. They’re poised to release their fifth studio set, Prosthuman,…

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TRACK: Azmari – ‘Azalaï’: aboard the Brussels Afro/Persian jazz sextet’s caravan

AZMARI is a sextet formed in Brussels in 2015 with a deep take on the North African groove. The name? Well, an azmari is literally “one who praises” in Amharic;…

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TRACK: FLOCKS – ‘Grammar King’: think Tortoise tooting a line of pure Squarepusher

WHEN you think of a great line-up combination, a trio that can really pull it off is a truly great thing: think The Jimi Hendrix Experience, think The Jam, even…

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PREMIERE: The Sound of Kalima – ‘Destroy U’: straight outta Vancouver on a mission

COMIN straight atcha from Vancouver, in the Pacific Northwest, Sound of Kalima are buzzing up their hometown; and with their new single they’re hoping to take things a lot, lot…

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SEE: Cheval Sombre returns with the hazy hush of ‘It’s Not Time’

HE’S BEEN away from our ears as a solo artist for what? Crikey it’s actually eight years now, how the egg-timer sands run; but Chris Porpora, who guises up for…

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