Reviews
Colliding Layers
When the phrase “library music” comes up, the image that comes to my mind is of dusty LPs with modernist...
Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: May/2025
Conflict Tourism
The British duo's fourth album has a strong thread of stories, settings and characters. It's a folk-pop concept album with...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2015
L'Ésprit Créole
With just a few years of performing and a handful of recordings behind him, Cedric Watson has fastened a firm...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: June/2010
The Rough Guide to Bhangra
Bhangra is the dance music rooted in the distinctive loping rhythm of the dhol drum, which sprung from Birmingham's Punjabi...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
‘Akilotoa: Anthology 1994-2006
Known for their close harmonies and full-throated performances, sisters Vika and Linda Bull first burst onto the Australian music scene...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2020
Solidarity
A multicultural album recorded by a group of international expats and Canadian natives on a surplus Tascam eight-track tape machine...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Namaste Bombay – A Musical Tribute to Hindi Cinema
Award-winning composer, producer and performer Kuljit Bhamra pays tribute to the music of his childhood, that is, Indian film music...
Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: August/2024
Already Home
Anna and Rowan Rheingans were born in Sheffield and grew up in the Peak District, daughters of a violin-maker whose...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
The Wilderness Yet
Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: November/2020
Samarpan
Introduced to Indian classical music by Pandit Brij Bhushan Kabra, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the gloriously experimental Debashish Bhattachrya, the...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2022
