Reviews
Encyclopedia of Arto
A founding member of seminal New York ‘no wave’ band DNA and long a guitar-shredding pivot of New York's downtown...
Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: July/2014
This Too
For the follow-up to their acclaimed debut album Free One in 2017, this Glasgow-based instrumental ensemble of fiddlers Laura Wilkie,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2022
Entity
This album is from Belgium, a nation seemingly adept at encouraging musical collaborations between different communities – Voxtra's The Encounter...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2017
Lost Causes
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird have come on a long way from their 2005 debut album The Broken Tongue...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: July/2011
What's Left of Spider John
Spider John Koerner is championed in Bob Dylan's Chronicles memoir – the two young men used to play the Minneapolis...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Aug/Sept/2013
Layers of Ages
Since he left Steeleye Span in 2013, Peter Knight's major musical preoccupation has been Gigspanner. (The name refers to that...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2015
Cerdd Dannau
Welsh poetry is famously complex, its success depending on the strict deployment of stress, rhyme and alliteration. Welsh traditional music...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: March/2014
Like a River to the Sea
Jahnavi Harrison grew up at Bhaktivedanta Manor in Hertfordshire, the UK's largest Hare Krishna temple, and her blend of acoustic...
Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: December/2015
Pecados Tropicales
You’d think six Latina women playing a punky cumbia with ‘queer’ in their band name had to be a good...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
25th Anniversary Celebration
As someone unfortunately old enough to remember the worst extravagances of progressive rock and some appalling collaborations with the classical...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Apr/May/2010
