Reviews

A Cassowary Apart

Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers

The world of ambient banjo is a small one. This was the joke that brought together two participants in the...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: June/2021

As If…

Coope Boyes & Simpson

British folk’s most prominent close harmony trio, Coope, Boyes & Simpson are veterans of the excellent Blue Murder (with assorted...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sep/2010

Kokoda

Ilan-Ilan

Named for the flower that scents the air of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, the Ilan-Ilan band was created in...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/February/2022

Utopia and Wasteland

Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar

No prizes for guessing to where the ‘utopia and wasteland’ of the title refers. It comes as no surprise that...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: June/2018

Quest Ensemble: The Other Side

This stunning sophomore release from London-based Quest Ensemble is a thing of beauty and brilliance, artfully embodying, as it does,...

Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: October/2020

Hex

Hò-Rò

Hex is the second album from the group from the Scottish Highlands & Islands that won the Up and Coming...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2018

Sròmos

James Duncan Mackenzie

Piper and flute player with popular Scottish band Breabach, James Duncan Mackenzie comes from Back on the Isle of Lewis...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018

Feather

Edgelarks

Edgelarks are Devon-based folk duo Hannah Martin and Phillip Henry, and their fifth studio album finds them once again clinging...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Lily

Christy Moore

Christy Moore's first album since 2013's Where I Come From finds the bard of County Kildare in characteristically understated form...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Fly

Balaklava Blues

Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...

Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: July/2019