Reviews
La Voz de la Zafra
Because Mercedes Sosa (1935-2009) achieved international recognition in her later years, she is popularly imagined as an ageless earth-mother with...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2013
Inspiration
Jah Wobble Presents: PJ Higgins
You wait and wait for a PJ Higgins album and then two come along at once. Although, while this Jah...
Reviewed by Howard Male in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Dionysus vs Tamada
Georgian artist Lasha Chapel has already enjoyed some underground success performing smoky, Anglophone ballads backed by minimal electronic beats. After...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: January/February/2022
MwSOUL
Tunisian-born but now Brussels-based singer Ghalia Benali's rich and experimental career spans two decades and touches not only on music,...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: October/2017
Undertow
When Holly Brandon was seven she was taken to a Show of Hands gig, and was so enthralled by Phil...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: November/2022
Una y Otra Vez
Bruno Garcia is very much of the school of Manu Chao: a punk rocker in Paris in the 1980s of...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: June/2011
Of What We Spoke
Threaded are a classically trained English folk trio from the Midlands and this beautifully designed CD is their first release....
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2016
Bound
Based in Glasgow, Jenn Butterworth (guitar and voice) and Laura-Beth Salter (mandolin and voice) have become a ubiquitous presence on...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2017
Quema Quema Quema
On their second album – following a subtle, largely-guitar-based debut – this duo from Peru have pumped their songs full...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2015
Junk Funk
In a previous Songlines I reviewed Spoek Mathambo's Father Creeper, an extraordinary album that thrillingly reinvented South African township music...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
