Reviews
A Body Like a Home
Following acclaimed collaborations with Laura Robles and Titi Bakorta, Peruvian experimentalist Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop, takes a more solipsistic...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/2026
Malira
Originally formed in 1983 as a duo, Australian band Not Drowning, Waving was created by classically-trained keyboardist-composer-producer David Bridie and...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2026
Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956–1963
Bob Dylan would go on to reinvent himself many times, but there remains something iconic about his first iteration as...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: January/2026
América Zureta
Hailing from the north-east of Brazil, singer-songwriter Ian Lasserre’s songs of protest are couched in the gentlest of voices. In...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: January/2026
Soul Ecstasy
Grammy Award winner Chandrika Tandon’s new album – glowingly titled Soul Ecstasy – provides exactly as promised. Describing herself as...
Reviewed by James Rorison in issue: January/2026
Lost Maps & Long Barrows
Shipwreck Orchestra is the recording project of composer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Miller, who not only wrote and arranged all the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
Kyrgyzstan Sessions
A kaleidoscopic album of music for jaw harp (AKA Jew’s harp, khomus, komuz, trump, etc), which constantly shapeshifts because of...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: January/2026
Jogkauns
Jasdeep is perhaps the leading British sitarist under 40. Surprisingly, this is only his second album, three years after his...
Reviewed by Oliver Craske in issue: January/2026
La Noche
Radio Tarifa were one of the great Spanish bands of the 90s, their blend of Spanish, North African and medieval...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: January/2026
