Reviews
Radio Moskova
How the anguished bass laments, taunted by the merciless, provoking accordion. But they forgive and make up, dancing around each...
Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Grenades
Kaia Kater's 2016 debut album Nine Pin won the young Canadian banjo player and singer-songwriter plenty of attention – including...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: March/2019
La Confusion
The ninth studio album from the blind Malian duo opens with ‘Bofou Safou’, a disco-fied electro-pop excursion that you'd be...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2017
Blue Skies
Longtime band members Josh Shilling (guitar, piano and vocals) and Aaron Ramsey (mandolin, bass, vocals) have invited a few guests...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2016
Carretero
Cándido Fabré has proved himself time and again to be one of Cuba's best living soneros. He first attracted...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Jan/Feb/2017
Beyond Breath
The liner notes that come with the CD claim this is ‘Indo-Baroque meets alt-folk minimalism.’ The ‘Indo’ of this description...
Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: October/2021
The Imam Baildi Cookbook
This is the second album by the Athens-based band, and it's nothing if not varied. Taking some of their own...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2011
Pretty Peggy
The second album from the Cornish-based singer, Britain's Got Talent finalist and BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner develops the...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: November/2017
Tibet: Music & Prayers from the Yellow Hats Monasteries, Tashilhunpo, Ganden, Séra
Since the early 1960s, most releases by the 15th-century Reformed School Gelugpa Tibetan Buddhist monks have been recorded at their...
Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: May/2016
The Deepest Lake
Four years since Cannibal Courtship, Dengue Fever's fifth studio album of original material is self-released under the banner of Tuk...
Reviewed by Edward Craggs in issue: March/2015
