Reviews
Eli Winter
Known as an extraordinarily adept self-taught guitarist with a distinctive style bearing the imprint of contemporary American flatpickers, particularly his...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2022
Sun Without the Heat
New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: May/2024
The Otium Mixtape
David Kiledjian is a producer/musician based in Lyon. This debut solo album puts us in touch with Lyon’s futurist electronic...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2024
Swaken
In the few years between the release of their 2020 debut album Nayda! and Swaken, this hotly anticipated follow-up, Bab...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
Silk Baroque
This is an elegant album of mainly European baroque music and pseudo-baroque compositions, but with a twist – the solo...
Reviewed by Hyelim Kim in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Sunlightsquare presents Britannia Shing-A-Ling
There’s a riot going on in Sunlightsquare. This unapologetically ambitious album from this sprawling UK collective sees some 25 musicians...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
The Turbans
This is an album that surprises, impresses and leaves you feeling slightly giddy – like a kosh over the head,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2018
Resiliencia
Taína Asili is a New York-born Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, activist, punk rocker, filmmaker and freedom fighter whose songs, videos, documentaries...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019
Bamako Nights: Live at Bar Bozo 1995
The late Lobi Traoré’s reputation as the wild maverick of the Malian electric guitar is based less on his recorded...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: March/2014
Aquarius
Antonio Carlos Jobim once called Joyce one of the greatest singers of all time – praise that the ageless Brazilian...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2010
