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ALBUM REVIEW: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Compassion’: Chicago meets Tibet in exploratory fusion

Compassion is a complex, often beautiful and sometimes challenging work, exploring the interstices where Tibetan healing meets Chicago instrumentalism

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ALBUM REVIEW: Surprise Chef – ‘Daylight Savings’: a step up and out in cinematic funk

Daylight Savings loses absolutely zero of their off-kilter cinematic charm in stepping up from their debut, All News Is Good News; it's really very ace

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ALBUM REVIEW: Bastien Keb – ‘The Killing Of Eugene Peeps’: an essential novel of an album

The Killing Of Eugene Peeps is an album that hits the previously uncharted sweet spot between Americana, 60s’ European soundtracks and hiphop. It's clever, reflexive, intriguing, questioning. One of the records of the year. Buy.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Mary Lattimore – ‘Silver Ladders’: contemplative and elemental harp exploration

Silver Ladders speaks of an open correspondence with place, with dialogue, with the elements. It's happy to embrace the darker side of being. As such, maybe it's a departure from the pristine shimmer of Hundreds Of Days; but it will provide incredibly rewarding autumnal exploration.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Paradise Cinema – ‘Paradise Cinema’: shimmering, vivacious, percussive, Afro ambience

Paradise Cinema, the self-titled project of Portico Quartet's Jack Wyllie, sings of new Afro-ambient futures to immerse in. It's vivacious, swathing and haunting

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Twilite Tone – ‘The Clearing’: crisp future electro breaks

If you were ever seduced by Mo’Wax when it was truly great, this is totally the album for you. Casting references towards multifarious Black musics, all laced up with deep thought and intelligence, it has breaks that get deep under your skin. Irresistible.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Andy Bell – ‘The View From Halfway Down’: superb psych-pop solo set

The View From Halfway Down is an eclectic and heady mix of psych, folk, tronica, baggy looseness and more - and nary puts a foot wrong. An absolutely excellent solo set

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Album Review: An Early Bird – Echoes of Unspoken Words

An Early Bird is essentially the work of Stefano Di Stefano – a quintessentially romantic troubadour from Naples and now based in Milan. Backseat Mafia has followed closely Di Stefano’s…

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Album Review: Wilding – The Death of Foley’s Mall

Wilding – the nom de plume of Justin Wilding Stokes – premiered the single ‘Swipe Right’ here on Backseat Mafia last month and it was quite a breath of fresh…

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Album Review: Enslaved – Utgard

With ‘Utgard’ Enslaved are looking behind the mirror, tracing the origins of the well-known fables of the northern world back into each and every one of us. A band that…

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