Reviews
Flit
Martin Green is best known as the accordion and electronica genius from Lau, but he's also a bravely experimental soloist....
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: November/2016
Live Wire
Several years ago, the Woody Guthrie official archives were given two spools of wire recordings of a live performance in...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Sea is My Brother
The fourth studio album from Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas is a concept album about the sea....
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Ritual
For her sixth album. Spanish performer, composer and music producer Ana Alcaide offers what she describes as a ‘hymn to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2022
Diaxas
Like an African version of Jamaica’s Sly & Robbie, Jam Groove are the London-based Senegalese rhythm duo of drummer Oumar...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2022
Family Affair
It's fun to imagine a group of reggae legends hauled up in a villa for days, switching between recording sessions...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: July/2023
Hajiki Uta
Best known as an actress outside of Japan, Meiko Kaji also enjoyed a successful career as a singer. Much of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: July/2023
Moving Home
From Bosnia to Brisbane via Sweden and Slovenia, the Australian-based trio East of West span all points of the compass...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/September/2023
La Novia
An album of Sephardic and traditional songs from Puglia’s La Cantiga de la Serena, a trio made up of Fabrizio...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: November/2023
The Louder the Better
The sixth studio album from Glasgow’s ‘Raggamuffin Queen’ is further proof that Soom T is a prolific singer-songwriter with a...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2023
