Reviews
Gran’s House
Bristol-based DJ and producer Jay Singh, AKA Indian Man, joins a wave of artists of South Asian descent putting their...
Reviewed by Izzy Felton in issue: November/2024
Marwar Stories
Thanks to Lorca’s duende theory – which has scant foundation in Andalusian history or culture – we tend to think...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2025
Safe, Sensible and Sane
Despite both having won pretty much every award going for the banjo, Steve Martin and Alison Brown have never collaborated...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
The Queen of Salsa
To put together a mere 12 of the Cuban diva’s greatest recordings must be an invidious task. Nevertheless, Craft Latino...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: February/March/2026
Cancionera
We know Natalia Lafourcade can turn on the intimacy and intensity. On 2024’s Live at Carnegie Hall, she managed to...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2025
Wondem
This new record from multi-instrumentalist Dexter Story is an endearing and enjoyable listen. Wondem (Brother) takes influences from the music...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Jan/Feb/2016
Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles
There ought to be nothing surprising about an all-female mariachi band, but this particular branch of Mexican music has such...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: December/2018
Buena Vista Social Club: 25th Anniversary Edition
Readers of Songlines will need no reminder of how the combination of Ry Cooder's meticulous production, a cast of veteran...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2021
Bienaventuranza
In recent years, the world of electronic music in Latin America has moved from revitalising cumbia with urgent beats to...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2018
