Reviews
La Mujer Que Yo Quiero
The story of how Israeli singer and guitarist David Broza's new album La Mujer Que Yo Quiero came about is...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2023
Ya Tengo lo Que Queria!
Ya Tengo lo Que Quería! doesn’t sound like an album made in London. In that sense it’s great evidence of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2013
No Summer
Welcome to the Radie Peat academy of drone singing, for the powerful example of Lankum and how they have turned...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Konono No 1 Meets Batida
It's 12 years now since Congotronics, the debut album of Konono No 1, but their manic roots energy continues to...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2016
Ethiopiques Vol 26
Mahmoud Ahmed & The Imperial Bodyguard Band
This latest release in the long running Éthiopiques series is very much a game of two halves. The opening five...
Reviewed by Chris Menist in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
No 2 Greepe
This is the second album from the Campbells of Greepe – hailed as one of the great singing families in...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2014
NO VISA
Globe-trotting producer Captain Planet calls his personal style ‘gumbo funk’ – all manner of flavours brought together and bubbled into...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: November/2020
Con Todo el Mundo
Take the surf versions of Middle Eastern folk tunes ‘Misirlou’ and ‘Hava Nagila’. Blend them with dub, 1960s Iranian pop...
Reviewed by Wif Stenger in issue: June/2018
No Me Rompas Las Bolas
The idiomatic expression Juan Carlos Cáceres uses for the title of this album – his third with percussionist Marcelo Russillo...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Apr/May/2011
No New Summers
Deceptively, No New Summers opens with ‘No Spring Chicken’ – five minutes of solo American primitive John Fahey-style guitar. The...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: July/2025
