Reviews
Kin
Since 2005, Tucker, currently residing on the unceded Esselen tribal lands now known as Big Sur, California, has released nine...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2
Woody Guthrie recorded these raw and intimate home tapes in his Brooklyn apartment during 1951 and 1952 as demos for...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Club Coco – New Dimensions in Latin Music
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
The Dominican-American Charlie Chimi’s ‘Échale Candela’ (Set it on Fire) was what first sparked Mexican DJ Coco Maria to assemble...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Encyclopedia Mandolinnica
Mandolinist Ethan Setiawan’s latest album, Encyclopedia Mandolinnica, showcases the Indiana-born, Berklee School of Music graduate’s virtuosic skills in a series...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Darkening Green
Darkening Green, the debut album by singer-songwriters Tamar Korn and Kyle Morgan, is a definitive expression of the New York-based...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Lindo E’
Announced as “a trip to the past, present and future of marimba music”, Semblanzas del Río Guapi’s second album is...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Babo Moreno
Son of renowned Brazilian percussionist Bosco de Oliveira, Fabio de Oliveira, aka Babo Moreno, grew up in London, making his...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
Horses
Country, and especially 70s country, is at the core of Tobacco City’s sound. The band, fronted by Lexi Goddard and...
Reviewed in issue October/2025
A Danger To Ourselves
Anyone expecting more heightened sci-fi concepts and bright instrumentation, as heard on Lucrecia Dalt's breakthrough album ¡Ay! is going to...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
Pasé Bél Tan – Francophonies & Creolities in Louisiana
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
In their study of the Cajun French of Louisiana, sociolinguists Sylvie Dubois and Megan Melançon describe the weakening of local...
Reviewed in issue September/2025
