Reviews
Homegrown
As legacies go, they don’t get much weightier than that of folk icon Woody Guthrie. Homegrown, the latest album by...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/2025
Terra Mãe
When she metamorphosed from Carolina to LINA_, the Portuguese singer signalled that she would leave traditional fado behind and venture...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: September/2025
IYA: Songs for the Mothers
For their fifth album, London's Afro-Cuban community choir build on their tradition of performing songs to the Orishas (Yoruba deities)...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2023
Flow
Flow is a collaborative work between Wu Man – generally considered the world's greatest player of the Chinese pipa –...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2021
DanSando
For her sixth album, Portuguese singer-songwriter Luísa Sobral wanted to release ‘an ode to life’ – a drop of medicine...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2022
Between the Sky & Prairie
The Grasslands Ensemble & Daniel Ho
Daniel Ho is a Grammy-winning Hawaiian musician and producer, best known for his innovative work on the ukulele. On Between...
Reviewed by Merlyn Driver in issue: March/2018
Fen, Farm & Deadly Water
As intimated by the title of this fresh second album, the Fens – the marshy region in Eastern England with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2018
Everything is Broke
Muito Kaballa is a multiinstrumentalist, working in Cologne. This debut album features a spread of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, flute,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2019
El Amor No es Para Débiles
Peru’s Bareto have responded to the departure of their lead singer Mauricio Mesones by recruiting a number of guest vocalists...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: April/2022
