Reviews
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
Far Better Days
Comprising Steve Byrne, Mark Dunlop, Fiona Hunter and Mike Vass, Malinky have, over the last 15 years, confidently established themselves...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2015
Almost Home
The folk-pop troupe Keston Cobblers Club return here with their third album. Since they released Wildfire in 2015, these Kentish...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
Visions of Iraq
Ahmed Mukhtar is a London-based Iraqi musician, renowned for his masterful playing of the oud. On Visions of Iraq, Mukhtar performs...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: May/2019
Acoustic Tarab Alchemy
Odradek is a new label that produces and promotes artists on the simple basis of blind auditions from submitted demos....
Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: June/2018
