Reviews
Soft Power
AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire
AJ Holmes grew up in East London and has lived in Hackney for the past 15 years. It's an ethnically...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
The Beginning, the Medium, the End and the Infinite
Truly a concept rather than a story, this comes at you ‘packed with utopia and sermons for righteous earthlings… those...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: May/2021
From the Kasbah/Tunis to Tahrir Square/Cairo & Back
It was, so they say, a very musical revolution. How could it have been anything else? Even under the most...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
The Lions We Are
Dantchev:Domain | DANTCHEV:DOMAIN
Atmospheric and cinematic, The Lions We Are is a journey across spaces and sensations. Permeated by a playful experimentalism, this...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: August/September/2022
The Road to Berryville
It’s a rare album that grabs you with every track, but Appalachian quartet Furnace Mountain have managed it with The...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: October/2012
Colours of the Night
The third album from the sacred Sufi trance music of the Moroccan Gnawa people is one of the great traditions...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: October/2023
Back to the Taverna
Cherry Bandora are a band from Berlin that revel in their cultural roots at the eastern end of the Mediterranean....
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: December/2023
The Spyglass & The Herringbone
In the traditional song ‘John Blunt,’ a couple retire to bed then remember they’ve forgotten to lock their door. They...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015
An Introduction to the Watersons/Waterson:Carthy
Now this must have been quite a job, albeit a highly rewarding and enjoyable one: concertina-ing the recordings of The...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: May/2018
Glory of the West
Here's an 18th-century fashion that needs reviving: the dance fan. Women took fans to dances to send elaborate signals as...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2018
