Reviews
Lost and Found
The first Buena Vista-brand release in a long while, accompanying the live band's alleged final tour, this is a selection...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: Apr/May/2015
Anne Briggs
One of three deluxe reissues from Topic as part of its 80th birthday celebrations, Anne Briggs' first album has only...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2019
Of Labour and Love
Alex Cumming, Kate Locksley, Rosie Calvert and Will Finn first began singing together after meeting on the famed Newcastle University...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2015
An Introduction to Norma Waterson
The last song on this album is ‘Bunch of Tyme’ from the 2010's Gift that Waterson made with her daughter...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2018
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Acoustic Sandy Denny
Mick Houghton and Andrew Blatt deserve much credit for conceiving and compiling this set – and for unearthing previously unheard...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Ambolley
For many of us, our first introduction to the Ghanaian singer and bandleader Gyedu-Blay Ambolley was when Soundway included a...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2019
Reggae Power/Woman Capture Man
Whatever the line-up, vocal harmony group The Ethiopians have always been the vehicle of Leonard Dillon. A convert to Rastafarianism,...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: May/2018
Acoustic Classics
This may sport one of the least inspiring pieces of cover art you’re ever likely to have seen, but the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2014
Cara de Espelho
No one by now can be ignorant of the far-right rise all over the world. In Portugal, the alarm is...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024
Isolashun
Aditya Prakash’s debut solo album with its phonetic spelling of ‘isolation’ appears to be a direct reference to the pandemic...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: January/February/2024
