Reviews
Wabi Sabi
Sometimes an album title immediately makes you want to return it, unheard. Such is the case with the nonsensically titled...
Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Lézard Vert
Do you ever get the feeling that you've put on the wrong album? Lézard Vert is considered a foundational album...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2021
ERA
Evidently believing he might not already have enough on his plate with a new album from Mànran only just out,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2017
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
Secretly Famous
This is a Western¬er’s image of Cairo and its mythical fleshpots: snake-charmer music for young Euro-clubbers en route to the...
Reviewed by Alastair Johnston in issue: July/2010
Hold Fast
‘This record is about working hard in the face of adversity, focusing on the positive, questioning the canon and making...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: October/2020
Lovers Rock: The Soulful Sound of Romantic Reggae
An episode of Steve McQueen’s acclaimed BBC television series Small Axe stimulated renewed interest in lover’s rock, the Black British...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: July/2022
Hungarian Noir: A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday
Thankfully the song ‘Gloomy Sunday’ does not directly cause people to commit suicide. Otherwise I would be 12 times deceased...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2016
In Winter
A winter album has been on the to-do list of this brilliantly inventive art-folk ensemble for a decade and a...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2025
Maya Maya
Hailing from Gao and living in Bamako, Oumar Konaté is part of a new generation of young Malian artists making...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2016
