Reviews
Dusa
Monika Wierzbicka is no newcomer to the Polish music scene. Active since the early 2000s, she co-founded a pop band...
Reviewed by Michał Wieczorek in issue: March/2024
Yoshitsune
Yoshitsune is a concept album that hits like a comic book punch. The psychedelic hard-rock of French group PoiL proves...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2024
Sones de Mariachi
Mariachi music, removed from the mezcal-sipping, ant-eating cantinas of its homeland, still has the power to entertain and surprise. Its...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2024
The Peacock and the Sunflower
Veretski Pass are one of the world’s leading traditional klezmer bands, partly because they search out unusual and little-known repertoire....
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2025
Room on the Porch
American blues giants Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ first collaborated eight years ago on an album called TajMo, their combined...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2025
Nyn
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis
Stassinopoulou has aptly described herself as a ‘Balkan ethno-trance artist’ and a practitioner of techno-folk psychedelia. I’ve been listening to...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: November/2016
Tablananda
There is a fine tradition of brothers in bands, occasionally accompanied by a sub-plot of sibling rivalry. Fortunately there is...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
No Wahala in the Dance!: Adventures in Contemporary Reggae, Dub & Electronics
Independent label No Wahala Sounds emerged five years ago, releasing limited-edition vinyl reissues of little-known African gems. Now the label...
Reviewed by David Katz in issue: March/2020
Painted
Joe Broughton's Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
Painted is a kind of folk thesis: a powerful argument that all the world's musical styles comprise a patchwork we...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2017
