Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Burial, Four Tet and Thom Yorke’s ‘Her Revolution’ is a psychedelic ‘tronica beauty

IF YOU’RE involved in deep vinyl Twitter, you may have noticed some shops offering a plain black 12″, plain black sleeve, strickly flesh customers only, these past few days, with…

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SEE: Jack Cheshire – ‘Miradors’: new visuals for a tale of capitalist alienation

JACK CHESHIRE, whose album Fractal Future Plays we were initiated into the mysteries of a few weeks back, has released the video for one of the standout tracks on an…

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MEET: Louis Philippe

On the day London's favourite adopted cult songwriter releases his excellent new album, Thunderclouds, we chat él, football songs, the state of the nation, Milton Nascimento and more

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SEE: Juanita Stein – ‘Reckoning’; seven UK dates from May

TORCH-songtress Juanita Stein, who released her third album of rootsy songcraft for Nude, Snapshot, in late October, has released a video for the dark, rousing drama of “Reckoning” and announced…

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TRACK: New Bums – ‘Billy, God Damn’: a freewheelin’ acoustic slide blues

ONE – and there are many more, but for now, this – one of the many reasons we over at Backseat Mafia love the good folks at Drag City, is…

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PREMIERE: Ben Eisenberger – ‘Soloists’: hear a set of warming folk grace from Omaha tunesmith

Beautiful and drawing respectfully on a number of strands in the wider folk pantheon, Ben's songwriting, arranging talents and his musicianship pull this record into a pretty special place indeed

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SEE: The Underground Youth – ‘A Sorrowful Race’; tenth album in March

BORN in the musical fires of Manchester, currently resident in Berlin, it’s fair to say that there’s a decent dose of proper musical heritage, maybe a little darkness, a willingness…

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SEE: Cabbage – ‘Get Outta My Brain’: wired weird gets the visuals

BETTER late than never, as the old adage goes. Mossley’s art-guitar bandits Cabbage came for us back in the heady, high summer days of August with “Get Outta My Brain”,…

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SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Night And Day’; new EP this Bandcamp Friday

DEEP THINKER and arch psych-folkster around town Jeremy Tuplin is releasing a new EP, entitled Happiness, this Bandcamp Friday, December 11th, which is sure to be a quartet of insouciant…

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SEE: Oya Paya – ‘Focus’: a slacker-pop winter warmer

IF YOU like a bit of bouncy slacker rock, all loose, chantalong lyrics primed for some Converse-meets-dancefloor action, with guitars scrappy and all about the downstroke and fun, then wrap…

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