Reviews
Esteesee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greats of English literature – a founding poet of 19th-century Romanticism. Apparently he...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: April/2016
Beginner’s Guide to Latin America
‘Ay, caramba!’, how do you do a beginn¬er’s guide to the music of more than 30 countries, with more than...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2012
Cuckoo
Toronto-based Lemon Bucket Orchestra are Canada's version of Gogol Bordello and, like Eugene Hütz, it seems a good many of...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: November/2024
More Arriving
Born in the US, raised and educated in India and a London resident for the past decade, the percussionist and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Aug/Sep/2019
Every Bird that Flies
‘The Fall’ begins in paradise: lying on the ground on a summer's day, and a child running about. Suddenly there's...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Twenty Live!
As the title suggests, this album is a celebration of, and love-in for, the Welsh five-piece Mabon and the fans...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2018
Rewilding
Listening to the third solo album from composer and guitarist Richard Durrant invites in a gentle English pastoral scene. Tours...
Reviewed by Douglas Macgregor in issue: January/2021
Now & Then (Box Set)
Now here’s a brilliant bumper box set. It contains CDs of 12 Sharon Shannon studio albums, including a brand new...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/February/2024
Forefowk, Mind Me
Scots is one of three official languages north of the border, along with English and Gaelic, and it is in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2025
