Reviews
Close Enough to Hear
With their previous two albums, 2017's Onwards and 2019's enchanting City on a Hill, the warmth, precision and virtuosity of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: April/2023
El Viaje
What a lovely album this is: a work of fluid yet inventive piano compositions rooted in classical, nodding to jazz...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2016
Traditional Songs from Rottingdean
‘Month of May’, ‘Birds in the Spring’, ‘Lark in the Morning’, ‘Hard Times of Old England’, ‘Spencer the Rover’ and...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015
Em Casa Com os Gil
Released to coincide both with Gil’s 80th birthday and the Amazon documentary series At Home With the Gils, this soundtrack...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2022
Agüeros
One accusation that cannot be fired at Colombia’s Sonoras Mil, the project of Felipe Gómez Ossa, is a lack of...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
Music is Our Business
Not many names from the golden age of dancehall in the 80s seem worthy of a Best Of. The obvious...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: July/2019
Obacht! Musik aus Bayern 2
You will, no doubt, have heard of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp and the American Alan Lomax. But...
Reviewed by Mark Espiner in issue: June/2011
Recados de Fora
Angolan singer Bonga made his first album in 1972. Now, at the age of 74, his 30th album is yet...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Vengeance
Benjamin Biolay has carved himself a niche in the top rank of French popular music, not by genius, but by...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: July/2013
Mycelium
Mycelium is (apparently) the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike filaments. The threadlike filaments...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2019
