Reviews
Moytou
UK-based Senegalese dancer-turned-singer Batch Gueye had a very promising first album, Ndiarigne, back in 2014, and has been a key...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2021
Batuque and Finaçon
This collection showcases two of Cape Verde's most traditional and resolutely African musical styles – batuque and finaçon – which...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: June/2011
The Golden Lagoon
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Dance Band (henceforth referred to as KLFSDB for the sake of trees and inkwells everywhere) present...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: April/2020
Sacred Earth
Sharon Shannon's first new studio album in three years is a curious affair. It seems to promise something for everyone,...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: July/2017
Time Was Away
Portman and Harbron are, in their different ways, leading lights of contemporary English folk – Portman as a singer, songwriter...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/February/2023
Tants Caps, Tants Joguets
‘Everybody fancies a nice pork pie,’ claims the chorus of ‘Tiny Kitchen’, sung by a duo of guest vocalists known...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Jan/Feb/2014
Your Mother Was a Peacock
Oxlip is Vancouver-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jayne Trimble, originally from Northern Ireland, and her philosophy on Your Mother Was a...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2021
Cycling Music
Richard Durrant is a brave man – he is attempting to tour his new album around the UK by bike....
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
New Found Land
FatDog were born one night in the summer of 2011 on the Swedish Koster Islands, where jazz trio Fattigfolket and...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Lost & Found
Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2023
