Reviews
Turnstone
A turnstone is a wading bird that upends pebbles to feed on what it finds beneath. It’s a fitting title...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Club Tounsi
It’s only been a few weeks since the release of his last album, the excellent Live at Another Sky Festival,...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
Diary of a Fiddler #2: The Empty Nest
Darol Anger may not have invented the bluegrass fiddle ‘chop’ (he learned it from originator Richard Green, who created it...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: September/2025
So Long Little Miss Sunshine
With her latest solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, Molly Tuttle further secures her reputation as one of modern...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2025
Poems & Non-Fiction
Newcastle-based singer, musician and disability activist Ruth Lyon's Poems & Non-Fiction is a stonking slice of indie-folk, layered with lush...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025
What Pop People Folk This Popular
The most bravely inventive folk band in Australia is moving on. Famed for their re-working of self-described ‘darker, stranger’ traditional...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Asar
Pakistani singer Muslim Shaggan comes from an impressive lineage of vocal musicians in two ways. Firstly, his grandfather and teacher...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: June/2025
Yenbett
The Mauritanian diva Noura Mint Seymali is back with an especially powerful album of new music, Yenbett. Her playing on...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2025
