Reviews
Mercy
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry | Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry & The Upsetters
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s work – and whole being – have always inhabited otherworldly realms; Mercy is no different. Three and...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: April/2025
Hello, Goodbye
Celebrating 25 years as a professional musician, multi-instrumentalist John McCusker teams up with a cast of musician friends who have...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2016
Special Edition Part 1
Since forming in the 1990s, New Zealand soul-dub-electronic outfit Fat Freddy's Drop have steadily built a deserved reputation as one...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2020
Up From The Deep
Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts
Nominated for a BBC Horizon Award for best new act in 2010, and both graduates of the Leeds College of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019
The Strings of São Domingos
Gently swaying rhythms as effortless as lapping waves, melodies infused with the sweet melancholic longing of saudades: the music of...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: May/2022
Nostálgico
The title of this album, Nostálgico, goes right to the heart of what tango represents: nostalgia and longing for what once...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: May/2019
Salsa Brothers
Hot on the heels of DJ Lubi Jovanovic's recent compilation for Nascente, Salsa Funk Experience (reviewed in Songlines #75), comes...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2011
Exotic Other
Animanz are three musical childhood friends, based in London, who front a collective committed to playing party tunes in which...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: November/2018
