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Review of La Légende de Dakar

La Légende de Dakar

Le Sahel

Celluloid

Rating: ★★★★

One thing that can never be faked or replicated is the easy, yet super-tight swing of a band that has...

Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Jan/Feb/2016

Review of Prince Buster Shakedown

Prince Buster Shakedown

The Dualers

Phoenix City Records

Rating: ★★

During the 2-Tone wave that hit the UK in the late 1970s, covering Prince Buster tracks – as The Specials...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of Second Circle the Horizon

Second Circle the Horizon

Sally Anne Morgan

Top of the World

Thrill Jockey Records

Rating: ★★★★★

To evoke the natural world is an age-old quest for musicians. To accomplish the mission so thoroughly and sonorously, as...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/2025

Review of Neighbours and Sisters

Neighbours and Sisters

Bird in the Belly

Bird in the Belly

Rating: ★★★

This is the strong follow-up to The Crowing from the Brighton quartet composed of alt-folk artist Jinnwoo, folk duo Hickory...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2020

Review of The Crowing

The Crowing

Bird in the Belly

GFM Records

Rating: ★★★★

A striking album of fresh explorations into the more obscure corners and bridleways of English music and folklore, The Crowing...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2018

Review of Starshine

Starshine

A Moving Sound

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Taiwan sadly remains an afterthought in the world music community so having another A Moving Sound album arrive in 2022,...

Reviewed by James Catchpole in issue: December/2022

Review of The Bird of a Thousand Voices

The Bird of a Thousand Voices

Tigran Hamasyan | Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir

Naïve Records

Rating: ★

Pianist and composer Hamasyan certainly has his admirers and his album Luys i Luso with the Yerevan State Chamber Choir...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2024

Review of The Pendulum Swing

The Pendulum Swing

Katherine Priddy

Cooking Vinyl

Rating: ★★★★★

Katherine Priddy’s sophomore set is an intimate, emotive, interconnected album of tableaux that encompasses the past, and past loves, and...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2024

Review of Outshine the Sun

Outshine the Sun

The Foghorn Stringband

Foghorn Stringband

Rating: ★★★★

You won’t find any clear songwriting credits on this innovatively packaged release. But what you will find in the liner...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2013

Review of The Wilderness Yet

The Wilderness Yet

The Wilderness Yet

Scribe Records

Rating: ★★★

Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020

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