Reviews
All is Not Forgotten
All is Not Forgotten follows on from Miller's 2018 release Mercury, and a very pleasant follow-up it is too. New...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2020
This is How We Fly
The eponymously titled debut from Dublin-based four-piece is a singular, stylish and somewhat startling proposition. Originally brought together for the...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Life as Is
Themes of uncertainty and impermanence run deep throughout this album, itself a product of an unlikely chance encounter between Syrian...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: Aug/Sep/2018
This Is Funkiwala
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
London-based record label Funkiwala is a global music treasure trove, a spiritual and (hopefully) commercial home for the best and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: December/2022
Silence is Bliss
Although he is best known for his work on some of Indian cinema's most celebrated soundtracks – including AR Rahman's...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: March/2016
Where the World is Thin
Kris Drever’s solo albums don’t come that often – 2010’s Mark the Hard Earth was followed six years later by...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2021
God is a Drummer
‘Without the drummer, nothing will move. And without movement, the world will stop,’ says Trilok Gurtu, explaining the title of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues
As the music of gambling dens, bordellos, barrelhouses and anywhere else vice was to be found, the blues swiftly earned...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Music is Our Business
Not many names from the golden age of dancehall in the 80s seem worthy of a Best Of. The obvious...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2019
Viajando Com O Som
Hermeto Pascoal & Grupo Vice Versa
Widely regarded as Brazil's most preternaturally gifted musician, Hermeto Pascoal has covered an incredible amount of creative ground in his...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: December/2017
