Reviews
Queens & Kings
This is the debut recording from an Afrobeat and highlife band formed in 2016, comprised of musicians from Ghana, the...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: June/2018
L'Aurore
You could think of this as a good dance hall disc, a souvenir of a summer's night spent in the...
Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: November/2017
Stolen From God
This 15th solo album from award-winning singer-songwriter Reg Meuross represents the fruits of over four years of research focusing on...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2023
Oberlin 1968
It’s the 1960s. They wear swinging, Carnaby Street clobber. Their performances are famously forthright and intense, yet funny and entertaining....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Qanat
Misagh Joolaee & Sebastian Flaig
A collaboration between Iranian kamancheh (spike fiddle) player Misagh Joolaee and German percussionist Sebastian Flaig, this album explores new instrumental...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: August/September/2022
Trikitixaren Historia Txiki Bat
Kepa Junkera will be 50 in April. He has been playing trikitixa, the effervescent diatonic accordion music of the Basques,...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Apr/May/2015
Les Bushinengé: Nèg Mawon de Guyane
The Bushinengé people from French Guiana and Suriname are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the Amazon and intermarried...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: May/2019
Till April is Dead: A Garland of May
In these garlands for May, Lisa Knapp sounds ardent and pure, driven by purpose and conviction. You can tell these...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2017
Far Better Days
Comprising Steve Byrne, Mark Dunlop, Fiona Hunter and Mike Vass, Malinky have, over the last 15 years, confidently established themselves...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2015
Almost Home
The folk-pop troupe Keston Cobblers Club return here with their third album. Since they released Wildfire in 2015, these Kentish...
Reviewed by Tommie Black-Roff in issue: June/2017
