Reviews
Slåttesong
“It’s great to be at a point where it’s the music that’s in focus and not where it comes from.”...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
Con-tra-dic-shun
What I like about the folk music Megson create is that it's alive. They don't try to mask the realities of...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2019
Acid Folk
Like other acid folk bands, Yonder Boys sound like they stepped back into the future. A polyglot trio based in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
Sociedade Recreativa
There's something about the off-kilter charm of the music of north-east Brazil that can sometimes be more appealing than the...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: June/2016
Lung Capacity
Bands that play with smiles on their faces and tongues in their cheeks are often mistrusted by the brow-furrowing serious...
Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: June/2011
A Lindisfarne Gospel
In the early eighth century on Holy Island in Northumberland, a man named Eadfrith, working alone, created a glorious masterpiece,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2014
You Me Bullets Love
Take a bunch of session players, add two Indian Australian singers, then order several helpings of theatrical, high-energy Bollywood pastiche:...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2013
