Reviews
Carousel
Hailing from Olympia, Washington, The Pine Hearts are a bluegrass trio with a penchant for expertly conjured, though largely conventional,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2018
Jiw
It took eight years of personal introspection and musical exploration for the Dakar-based Sahad Sarr to bring out his debut...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: July/2017
Magic Fire
Unlike previous Stray Birds recordings, Magic Fire is mostly devoid of anything especially magical or combustible. Produced – or, more...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2016
Songs from a Rocking Chair
If old-time, pre-World War II Americana is your thing, then Aaron and Nicole Keim, the husband-and-wife singing duo collectively known...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2014
Bright Field
Bright Field is a strong follow-up to Rowan and Anna Rheingans’ excellent 2015 album Already Home(a Top of the World...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2018
I’m a Stranger Here
If Nirvana had been a rockabilly band from rural Vermont, they would have sounded something like The Devil Makes Three....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Free Music (Part One)
Free Music (Part One) compiles the third and fourth albums (the only ones released on vinyl) of the Libyan, mid-70s,...
Reviewed by Nick Hobbs in issue: June/2023
Värav/ Vārti / Vartai
On this fabulous debut album from The Baltic Sisters, the four voices of Marion Selgall (Estonia), Laurita Peleniūtė (Lithuania), Vineta...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2025
Write It Down
The second album by self-described “New York-based rock and roll and rhythm and blues garage gospel band” Jackson and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2025
Dunrobin Place
It's hard not to sound like a broken record when talking about the albums of today's technically gifted, highly adept...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: March/2013
