Reviews
Dans fra Dalstrøka
By their own admission, the music of Norwegian sextet Hornorkesteret is hard to describe, and the line-up does little to...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington 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
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
There Is Beauty, There Already
Drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album is a singular experiment in slow listening and percussive potential. It emerges alongside...
Reviewed by Liam Izod 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
It All Came Round Again
Subtitled ‘On Stage and On Air 1982-90’, this is an extensive and intriguing history of what was a decidedly tricky...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2025
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
