Reviews
Yoyi
Launching the Brighton-based label’s new Cuban Classic Series comes this curio from 1977, originally released on the Areito subsidiary of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/February/2024
Vander Ikh Mir Lustik
Lively melodies and joyful group vocals characterise this new release from the previously Saint Petersburg-based band Dobranotch. In the wake...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: September/2024
Electric Taal Band
Daniel McLay is an inventive Canadian musician, composer and producer. He gained notoriety for cult chiptune project The J. Arthur...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2024
Talkie Talkie
London-based instrumental four-piece Los Bitchos draw their heritage and all-female members from the UK, Sweden, Uruguay, Australia and Turkey, and...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: November/2024
Weġgħat Żgħar
What a surprise to hear an album sung predominantly in Maltese. Infused inevitably with Mediterranean influences, bolstered by perceptible Levantine,...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/2024
Migratum
Migratum is the Chicago trio’s debut album, building in form, beats complexity and melodies from 2019’s self-titled EP. The term...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: August/2024
Talitakum
Avalanche Kaito’s 2022 self-titled debut was a triumph of noise punk indelibly informed by griot music from Burkina Faso. Since...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: June/2024
Sonic Talismans
Born of a 14-year collaborative partnership between Chinese avant-garde musicians Liang YiYuan and Li Daiguo, Sonic Talismans is the first...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: December/2024
Wild and Clear and Blue
What started out in 2014 looking like a one-off or short-lived supergroup of Americana singer-songwriters – Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2025
Salsa de la Bahia: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz
In this double-disc third volume of the Salsa de la Bahia series, documentary-maker and timbales-player Rita Hargreaves highlights the contributions...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2025
