Reviews
Whaling Women
Riding the wave (pun intended) of the sea shanty trend, this is the second release from the all-female group hailing...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: September/2025
Africa Express Presents… Bahidorá
Damon Albarn's Africa Express crossed the Atlantic to the Americas for the first time in 2024 to headline the Mexican...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
Tuff Times Never Last
Seven-piece collective Kokoroko are one of a clutch of UK acts that channel the righteous grooves of Afrobeat into their...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: September/2025
Ŋurru Wäŋa
Originally developed during an Australian Art Orchestra residency in remote Tasmania, the Hand To Earth ensemble creatively established itself in...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: September/2025
YO:song
The much-missed group SsingSsing was the vehicle that brought Lee Heemoon to international fame, a genre-blending, gender-bending kaleidoscopic take on...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: September/2025
Nishabourak
Hamid Motebassem and George Crotty Trio
This collaborative album is born of a musical meeting at Toronto's Experimental Link Series event. The series focuses on celebrating...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: September/2025
Jawaya Jathum
Jawaya Jathum translates as ‘The Guitarist and The Music Lover’, these being Polycarp Otieno (aka Fancy Fingers) and sweetly soulful...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
Danger
Originally released in 1976, Danger fuses Afrobeat, funk and psychedelic soul with biting political and social commentary sweetly delivered through...
Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: August/2025
In the West
In the West, the third full-length release from Gabrielle Macrae (fiddle, guitar, bass, vocals) and Barry Southern (banjo, guitar, dobro,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/2025
MVD LUV
Love – or rather, ‘LUV’ – is the operative word and it’s hard not to be enchanted (or occasionally irritated)...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: August/2025
