Reviews
The King of Misery
Daudi Matsiko, a British-Ugandan singer-songwriter, delivers a debut album from a vulnerable chapter in his life, that expands what is...
Reviewed by Marie Bashiru in issue: March/2024
All That Remained
If there was any naiveté on show in Lucidvox’s last album, We Are, it has surely been worn away by...
Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2024
Acoustic Live
A mainstay of Seattle’s indie scene in the early 2000s, Balkan punk rockers Kultur Shock are back with a surprising...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March/2024
Tigre Qui Pleure
El Gato Negro is as far from Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy Black Cat as you could get. Hiding behind the...
Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2024
Irakere
Grupo Irakere, as the Cuban all-star outfit was known back in 1976 when this second in Mr Bongo’s Cuban Classics...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2024
All is Forgiven
Lilli Lewis has been labelled a ‘folk rock diva’, but that only describes part of her style. Based in New...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024
Social Limbo
This is the second album from Opez, led by guitarist Massi Amadori, and one which continues their exploration into melancholic...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: April/2024
Kasbatek
‘Gnawa funk’, a blend of sounds from ‘the Orient, from the Maghreb, chaabi melodies and Gnawa rhythms’ is the proclamation...
Reviewed by Nik Hann in issue: April/2024
Suave Bruta
There has recently been a wave of new approaches in Britain and continental Europe to mainland Latin American music, often...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: April/2024
