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Review of Strands

Strands

Tannara

Braw Sailin'' Records

Rating: ★★★★

Marking their second album Tannara, comprising Robbie Greig on fiddle, Owen Sinclair on guitar, Joseph Peach on accordion and Becca Skeoch on...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)

Keep Hauling (Music from the Movie)

Fisherman's Friends

Island Records

Rating: ★★★★

Thirty years ago a group of friends – some actually fishermen – got together on the Platt (the hard ground...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of The Sea is My Brother

The Sea is My Brother

Harbottle & Jonas

Brook View Records

Rating: ★★

The fourth studio album from Devon folk duo David Harbottle and Freya Jonas is a concept album about the sea....

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of Alfabeto Runico

Alfabeto Runico

Alfabeto Runico

Top of the World

Apogeo Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Active since 2003, Alfabeto Runico are the fruit, first and foremost, of the friendship between the three band members. Marta...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of Nostálgico

Nostálgico

El Muro Tango

Galileo MC

Rating: ★★★

The title of this album, Nostálgico, goes right to the heart of what tango represents: nostalgia and longing for what once...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of The Sweet Primeroses

The Sweet Primeroses

Shirley Collins

Topic Records,

Rating: ★★★★★

An extraordinary and singular recording even 52 years after it first appeared, Shirley Collins' The Sweet Primeroses is one of...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of Changeable Heart

Changeable Heart

Ruth Notman & Sam Kelly

Pure Records

Rating: ★★★★

Notman first hit the folk scene back in 2007 with her debut, Threads, leading to a nomination for the BBC...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of The Reeling

The Reeling

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Top of the World

River Lea Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

The Reeling ends with the great singer and piper Rona Lightfoot, now 82 years old, giving a little laugh of...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of Con-tra-dic-shun

Con-tra-dic-shun

Megson

EDJ Records

Rating: ★★★★

What I like about the folk music Megson create is that it's alive. They don't try to mask the realities of...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Review of Anne Briggs

Anne Briggs

Anne Briggs

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★★

One of three deluxe reissues from Topic as part of its 80th birthday celebrations, Anne Briggs' first album has only...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

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