Reviews
A Danger To Ourselves
Anyone expecting more heightened sci-fi concepts and bright instrumentation, as heard on Lucrecia Dalt's breakthrough album ¡Ay! is going to...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025
Metamorphose
Technically a debut, this coming together of three of Montréal’s most accomplished global musicians is as assured as any veteran...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2026
Tromper le Temps
Having released seven records during their ten years together, Le Vent du Nord are clearly not short of inspiration. The...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2012
Agüeros
One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
Fa
Images of Galician piper Susana Seivane's son, born during an eight-year absence from the studio, litter the thick little booklet...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
A Blade Because a Blade is Whole
Emerging from the UK’s experimental underground, DePlume’s Spotify statistics indicate that his concoction of poetry and jazz provides a taste...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2025
A Guide to the Birdsong of South America
With passions for conservation, bird-watching and South American music, British producer Robin Perkins decided to combine all three here. He...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2015
Never Stop Moving
The lead singer with the folk-rock institution known as Oysterband, John Jones is pictured striding purposefully across a panoramic landscape,...
Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: December/2015
Tibet: Songs from Exile
Fifty years after the Chinese occupation of Tibet, there are still few recordings of genuine traditional music from Tibet’s rural...
Reviewed by Mark Trewin in issue: July/2013
The Rough Guide to the Music of Eastern Europe
In their heyday, the Rough Guide CDs were superb overviews of the music of a particular country or region. Now,...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2019
