Like Cheikh Lô, Senegal's Batch Gueye is a member of the Baye Fall, the dreadlocked Sufi brotherhood founded by Amadou Bamba. We first heard him in 2012 on a World Music Network compilation and his debut album Ndiarigne received a four-star review in our Jan/Feb 2015 issue. The follow-up, Xamle, was less impressive and earned just two stars in 2018. Do You Hear Me? represents something of a return to form as he combines traditional Baye Fall chants and percussion with more contemporary Afro-pop elements, a trace of reggae and subtle use of synth keyboards and electric instruments on a set of a dozen self-composed songs sung in a soulful voice in both Wolof and English. On In This New Land he sticks more closely to a traditional acoustic sound, although the Bristol-based guitarist Algy Behrens adds some pleasing electric licks alongside the rippling kora of Sura Susso and the hand-held percussion of Dawcouba Diop (who also plays on Do You Hear Me?). To these ears In This New Land is the better of the two albums with Behrens, who also produces, coaxing a more focused sound out of Gueye, weaving together West African rhythms with flamenco Afro-Cuban grooves over which Batch's supple voice soars appealingly.