Reviews
Acid Folk
Like other acid folk bands, Yonder Boys sound like they stepped back into the future. A polyglot trio based in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2021
Le Chant Khyal ou l'Art de l'Imagination
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande is currently one of the leading female artists of North Indian classical vocal music specialising in the genre...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: April/2021
Kobani
Ferhat Tunç's latest album is nicely packaged, with the songs competently translated into English. If you are unfamiliar with the...
Reviewed by Martin Stokes in issue: October/2016
MwSOUL
Tunisian-born but now Brussels-based singer Ghalia Benali's rich and experimental career spans two decades and touches not only on music,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2017
Of What We Spoke
Threaded are a classically trained English folk trio from the Midlands and this beautifully designed CD is their first release....
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2016
Bound
Based in Glasgow, Jenn Butterworth (guitar and voice) and Laura-Beth Salter (mandolin and voice) have become a ubiquitous presence on...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2017
Bilingua
Sung in Irish and English, Eithne Ní Uallacháin's posthumous solo debut is a thing of rich and rare beauty. Drawn...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Apr/May/2015
Queens & Kings
This is the debut recording from an Afrobeat and highlife band formed in 2016, comprised of musicians from Ghana, the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2018
Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
