Reviews
Moreland’s Ball
Melbourne ensemble The Woohoo Revue are one of those groups that’s impossible to categorise. Most would call them a ‘Gypsy’...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: October/2012
Back to Sustain
Like a light hike on an easy trail on a sunny spring afternoon, The Pine Hearts' fourth studio album doesn't...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2020
Protobilly: The Minstrel & Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music 1892-2017
This compilation is an amazing and expansive labour of love that traces the journey of country music from the very...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: Jan/Feb/2020
Volume II
The Armagh Rhymers have been fusing ancient and modern, the mundane and the magical, legend and the life lived since...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: May/2022
The Kankobela of the Batonga Volume 2
The kankobela is a smaller version of the more well-known mbira (thumb piano) of Zimbabwe’s Shona people. The people of...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2012
Rivers: From the Congo to the Mississippi
A veteran soukous guitarist from the DRC, Siama Matuzungidi played on local hits by the likes of Kanda Bongo Man,...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2016
Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
Speaking to Songlines in 2021, Irish folk singer John Francis Flynn described his debut album, I Would Not Live Always,...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: December/2023
Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels
Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad
Originally recorded in 2023, Mayssa Jallad’s Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels is a sonic reimagining of a five-month battle...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2025
Encantações
Brazilian music has shown for some time a spectacular porousness and a seeming ease in introducing traditional forms to modern...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2017
Fatou
Just when you thought Mali couldn't possibly produce any more extraordinary new musical stars, here's another. Born in the Ivory...
Reviewed by Mark Hudson in issue: October/2011
