Reviews
What Love Is
Katie Spencer’s third album proves that she is a fine singer-songwriter, and an excellent guitarist with a style that at...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
Vol.1: El Sueño Se Deshizo Para Siempre
This Belgian quartet are named after the Federico García Lorca sonnets that form the verbal heart of this repertoire. The...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/March/2026
Ironclad and Palm Trees
Sometimes you hear a record that feels like it is inviting you into its world. Ironclad and Palm Trees, the...
Reviewed by Joe Mulhall in issue: May/2026
Route & Roots
Lebanese-born singer-songwriter Abaji is now based in France but draws his music from a wide range of sources, following his...
Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: June/2016
Terre Rouge
At the opening weekend of this summer's Mendocino Music Festival in California, two bands from eastern Canada made an interesting...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2015
Everybody Wants to Be Like Mary
Scottish folk music is no stranger to electronica – going back to the original ‘techno piper’, the late Martyn Bennett...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: February/March/2025
Roi De L’Agbadja Moderne 1974–1983
Best known as the lead singer of salsa legends Africando between 1996 and his death in 2004, Gnonnas Pedro was...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2025
Adventures in the Now
This is the fourth instalment of genre crossing ethno-jazz fusion from Finnish multi-instrumentalist Ilkka Arola and his band Sound Tagine....
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: June/2025
