Reviews
tender
Lady Maisery’s new album is a musical and lyrical exploration of the ambiguities of its one word title, tender. Hazel...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: January/February/2023
The Fragile
O’Hooley & Tidow were mightily impress¬ive at the Nowt So Queer as Folk concert at Cecil Sharp House, the home...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2012
Lemma
Hailing from the Saoura region of southern Algeria, Lemma are a group of 11 female artists whose name, in their...
Reviewed by Russell Higham in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
Half Day Road
Not for nothing is Liz Carroll routinely referred to as a fiddler-composer, because almost immediately after they're written, the Chicago-born...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2019
Cross the Line
Hailing from Orkney, and mentored by Douglas Montgomery (The Chair, Saltfishforty), the all-female group Fara is comprised of Jennifer Austin...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2016
Cicada Ball
The Boxcar Boys aren’t all that they seem. They aren’t all boys, for one thing: two of the sextet are...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
Lament for Syria
A former teacher and journalist in his native Syria, Jan Ibro Khelil fled to Norway in 2010 and was granted...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Okemah Rising
Along with 2022's This Machine Still Kills Fascists, Dropkick Murphys’ Okemah Rising stems from a self-directed project, the purpose of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2023
