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Review of Your Comfort Zone

Your Comfort Zone

Peyoti For President

Sordid Soup Records

Rating: ★★★

Cumbia grooves, salsa horn riffs and calls to rebellion coalesce on this bombastic record. Opener ‘You are the Revolution’ could...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2025

Review of Sonor

Sonor

Enji

Squama

Rating: ★★★★

Bewitching melodies, crisp jazz arrangements and singular vocal textures made Enji’s last album (Ulaan) a critical success. Sonor pairs the...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/2025

Review of Tour of Japan

Tour of Japan

Minyo Crusaders

180G

Rating: ★★★

Japan’s min’yō folk tradition is rooted in the work songs of farmers, fishermen and miners who sang unaccompanied about their...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: August/2025

Review of Tu

Tu

Yijia

Yijia

Rating: ★★★

The Chinese character from which this album takes its name refers to soil and carries an association with outmoded things....

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025

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