Reviews
Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids
Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids brims with playful magic, and there’s no reason to withhold this from...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: April/2026
Tilaye’s Saxophone with the Dahlak Band
Saxophonist Tilaye Gebre was one of the stalwarts of Addis Ababa’s popular music scene from the 1960s to the 1980s,...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2026
Genuine Negro Jig (15th Anniversary Edition)
Soon after the release of Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops in 2010, the album rocketed into the top...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: April/2026
Air Senegal
The Israeli-born Aylon won a Best Artist nomination in the Songlines World Music Awards for his 2021 album Xalam. That...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: April/2026
KÖD
Montreal-based Chadian producer, singer and guitarist Caleb Rimtobaye, aka Afrotronix, fuses ancestral African tradition with future-facing electronics. KÖD expands his...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: April/2026
These Frightening Machines
‘Soften my gaze for a second’, Katherine Priddy sings in ‘A Matter of Time’, ‘a decade swings by’. Too true....
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: April/2026
Tournivelle
Tournivelle, the second release by La Cuivraille since the band’s founding by violinist Gabriel Lenoir in 2014, showcases a refinement...
Reviewed by Duog DeLoach in issue: April/2026
Everybody Wants to Know How I Die
The fifth album of demon-haunted country blues from Canada’s scariest songwriter. Sinner takes traditional songs as his jumping-off point, expanding...
Reviewed by Paul Slade in issue: April/2026
