Reviews
Broadside Ballads Vol III
Canadian band The Deep Dark Woods have been around for years with their own rootsy indie folk, but a lot...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/2024
Ayó
Many Songlines readers will remember Andy Palacio, whose 2007 album Wàtina has become as much a classic for Belizean music...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: October/2013
OberTany
Zawierucha are a new Polish folk band whose name translates as ‘Turmoil/Storm’. With two violins, double bass and a drum...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
God is a Drummer
‘Without the drummer, nothing will move. And without movement, the world will stop,’ says Trilok Gurtu, explaining the title of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2020
Humanicity
The Upsetter is back, and this time he's wearing a curly yellow clown's wig and sounding as if he's left...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Apr/May/2013
968 CR13
Massilia Sound System surged out of the 80s underground party scene in Marseille. They're the group that pretty much single-handedly...
Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2013
Drawing in an Almond
Greek singer Katerina Papadopoulou was previously unknown to me, but due diligence proves it's been my oversight. This album was...
Reviewed by Marc Dubin in issue: Apr/May/2014
Homage to Nazım Hikmet
Tülay German & François Rabbath
Poet, playwright and novelist Nazım Hikmet has cast a huge shadow over Turkish culture for a century. A pioneer of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
I Wanna Sing Right: Rediscovering Lomax in the Evangeline Country
Co-produced by Joel Savoy and Joshua Clegg Caffery, and based on Caffery's scholarly tome, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2016
What News
Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness
This is Roberts’ 12th solo album since 2001, and his fourth of purely traditional songs, following on from the excellent...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018
