Reviews
Ville Veier
Erlend Viken Trio’s latest album, Ville Veier (Wild Ways), marks a dynamic return. Known for their improvisational flair rooted in...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Great Joy to the New
Great Joy to the New opens with ‘Derby Ram’, the surprisingly upbeat story of a gargantuan sheep and the gloriously...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
A Ukrainian Wedding
Cappella Romana & Nadia Tarnawski
The order of a modern wedding has become standardised across the world: an engagement followed by a wedding ceremony with...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Giorgos Katsaros
This is both a fabulous historical document and a musical treat from the rebetika heyday of Greek émigrés to the...
Reviewed in issue January/2025
Lost Things Returning
This is the second outing with the Cornwall-based, Birmingham-raised alt-folk duo Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy. Following their debut, which...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Vento do Mar
This soulful album has the seamless feel of a longtime collaboration, rather than the debut production that it is. Portuguese...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
The Shovel Dance
Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Betwixt & Between 11
Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies
Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Umbelliferæ
Inspired by her love of aromatic plants, the traditions of folk and classical music, and her own chromesthesia (‘ability to...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
