Reviews
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
Ruins/Adfeilion
This is very highbrow folk. Gareth Bonello – aka The Gentle Good – is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and general thinker....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2016
The Kusum Beat
That the author of the liner notes, in archetypal 1970s African self¬empowerment fashion, signs himself ‘Super Star’ is as likely...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2010
The Turning Tide
Crikey, another Solas album? It seems only a moment ago that I reviewed the band’s For Love and Laughter. OK,...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: July/2010
The Long March
Le Trio Joubran have been musical flag-bearers for the Palestinian people for more than a decade. For The Long March,...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2018
