Reviews
Boss Morris
The self-titled debut from Boss Morris soars with all the melancholy folk beauty of a Red Kite in a wintry...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: April/2025
Usures
Les Mécanos are ten hirsute men from Saint-Étienne who, in overalls and dungarees, sing in Occitan and French of the...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2025
Karma Sheen
60s rock meets Hindustani sounds and Sufi lyricism in this album of bright colours and youthful euphoria. Karma Sheen is...
Reviewed by James Rorison in issue: April/2025
Counterclockwise
Long-running Californian folkers Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl have delivered an epic and ambitious slice of weird Wicca folk with...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: August/2025
Life & Time
Two Grammy-winning songwriters – one a former NFL footballer, Mike Reid, whose heavily grained voice carries these songs, and the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2025
Dakan
As opening statements go, you can’t get much more gloriously emphatic than ‘Diyanye Ko’ which kicks off the fourth album...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2025
Galaxia Tropical
This is Analog Africa’s eagerly anticipated second volume of works by Jorge Raúl Llerena Vásquez, the legendary cumbia singer and...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: April/2026
Instar
Ecology, politics, and the rigours and inequities of the present framed by the struggles and injustices of the past are...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2016
Manginburru Bininj
An Aboriginal band from the remote Arnhem Land outstation of Mama-dawerre, Wildflower are following the musical path pioneered by their...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2010
Agôra
This prolific world-jazz trio from São Paulo boosted their profile in 2020 with a BBC 6 Music Album of the...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: May/2023
