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Review of Palaces

Palaces

Electric Vocuhila

Capsul Records

Rating: ★★★

Electric Vocuhila, a French quartet founded ten years ago in Berlin as part of a musicians’ co-operative, display an impressive...

Reviewed by Julia in issue: June/2020

Review of From Here

From Here

Stick in the Wheel

From Here Records

Rating: ★★★★

Every couple of years or so, a really good punk band comes along to remind everyone what's really important: saying...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: November/2015

Review of A Passionate Landscape

A Passionate Landscape

Dylan Fowler

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

The landscape in question here is undoubtedly that of Wales, the home of guitarist and composer Dylan Fowler. But, perhaps...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2014

Review of Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

Yumi Kurosawa Trio

Zoho

Rating: ★★

Crossover albums don't often get one's pulse racing, and only two tracks on this album from the Japanese American koto...

Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: May/2023

Review of We Are

We Are

Lucidvox

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

Rich, dark, romantic, apocalyptic, brooding… The swirling aural textures of this Russian quartet's debut album give rise to a surfeit...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2021

Review of Metamodal

Metamodal

Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet

Top of the World

ECM

Rating: ★★★★★

Lyra, piano, bass and drums – given that line-up, one might expect the Greek instrument, played here by the virtuoso...

Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: October/2019

Review of Stories Sung, Truths Told

Stories Sung, Truths Told

Tir Eolas

Tir Eolas

Rating: ★★★

Recorded in just one week in summer 2014 and produced by Jim Moray, Stories Sung, Truths Told ably shows off...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2015

Review of Male Voices of Fado

Male Voices of Fado

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

As is often the case with compilations, one obsesses not so much about the selection but rather about the missing...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of Behold

Behold

Black Symbol

Sugar Shack Records

Rating: ★★

The Birmingham district of Handsworth gave birth to one of the UK's strongest roots reggae scenes of the 70s and...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: March/2019

Review of Walk With Me

Walk With Me

The Skatalites

Wrasse Records

Rating: ★★★

It’s been a tough couple of years for The Skatalites. Two of the legendary ska group’s founding members passed away...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

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