Reviews
The Deepest Lake
Four years since Cannibal Courtship, Dengue Fever's fifth studio album of original material is self-released under the banner of Tuk...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: March/2015
The Spectrum Project
Award-winning fiddler Marie Fielding’s fourth album is a curious, but engaging, experiment. Exploring the organic nature of the creative process...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2020
Releasing the Leaves
Enthusiasts of English folk music will perhaps already be familiar with Dorset-based duo Ninebarrow. Their 2014 debut, While the Blackthorn...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: April/2016
The Long Count
On Animus, her 2018 debut album, Mexican-American producer-musician Delia Beatriz aka Debit explored metallic soundscapes, frantic club grooves, pulsing sequences...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2022
The Next Chapter
If 2016's River Waiting saw Northern Irish quintet Connla anointed as the ‘next big thing,’ their aptly titled follow-up sees...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2018
Stop the Parade
Sophie Solomon stages a tableau of Russian melodrama and sorrow for her welcome return to the studio after seven years....
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
The Unfinished Violin
Sam Sweeney's Fiddle: Made in the Great War show toured from 2014 to last year, and he has chosen that...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2018
Over the Rainbow
Let’s dispense with the jokes first. The late great Hawaiian vocalist and ukulele player Israel ‘Iz’ Kama– kawiwo’ole was so...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2011
From the Stillhouse
Hailing from the frozen forests of northern Ontario, Murder Murder describe themselves as a ‘bloodgrass’ band. Particularly interested in murder...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2017
Die Demokratie
Growing up in Germany as part of the Turkish diaspora, Ozan Ata Canani began playing the bağlama and writing songs...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2025
