Reviews
Direct-to-Disc
Marcelo Peixoto became known through his work with 90s rap-rock band Planet Hemp and their ceaseless cries for the legalisation...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: January/2025
De las Nieves
Neves, guitarist and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, has worked with some of the old and new masters of Brazilian...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: September/2025
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
Earth Is Begging
After a decade of being The KutiMangoes, in 2022, the Denmark-based band rebranded as Sunbörn, vowing to “bring people together”...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2025
Rose in June
Boden's presence on the 21st-century British folk scene has been colossal – from his stint in Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers band...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: April/2020
Franklin
In 1845, the 129-strong crew of Captain John Franklin's expedition to discover the famed North-West Passage vanished in the icy...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2018
Naming & Blaming
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra
This is the second album from the Melbourne-based Public Opinion Afro Orchestra and it is unabashedly Afrobeat. The group take...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Small Town Heroes
With today's excess of foot-stomping banjo players and dressed-up Americana, you could be forgiven for overlooking this New Orleans-based troupe....
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: October/2014
Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent
The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017
African Soul Revolutionary
Every slick studio release Baaba Maal puts on the market tends to prompt someone to release some unmixed, live or...
Reviewed by Katharina Lobeck Kane in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
