Reviews
Children of Albion
Artist Ben Edge released his absorbing large-format compendium of British folk customs last year, featuring vivid narrative artworks and first-person...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2025
At My Mother’s Piano
Can memory be preserved through sound? Can a place and a point in time be captured in the soft fall...
Reviewed by Rosie Solomon in issue: May/2025
Echoes of Resistance
Has it really been two years since the release of Raz & Afla’s The Cycle? It must be, because here’s...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: February/March/2025
Luna, cera e vino
This is a classy album of Italian electro-folk from a trio that formed back in Caserta, north of Naples, in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Songs for Nina and Johanna
Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston’s latest release doesn’t tinker with his winning formula of gently absorbing compositions set against lush, but...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2025
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Yalla Miku, the brainchild of Beirut-born Bongo Joe founder Cyril Yeterian, is a group which brings musicians from North and...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Needless Alley
Named after a backstreet that runs through his home city of Birmingham, Wilks’ third album arrives rich in original songs...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2025
Cold Blows the Wind
The assured trio of Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on melodeon, concertina and vocals, singer and guitarist George Sansome and violinist Lewis Wood...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2025
Weights & Measures
If you walked into a bar or a hall anywhere in the US and found that Darrin Hacquard and his...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2026
