Reviews
Tuff Times Never Last
Seven-piece collective Kokoroko are one of a clutch of UK acts that channel the righteous grooves of Afrobeat into their...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: September/2025
What Pop People Folk This Popular
The most bravely inventive folk band in Australia is moving on. Famed for their re-working of self-described ‘darker, stranger’ traditional...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Tropicoqueta
After the huge success of the Puerto Rican roots album by reggaeton star Bad Bunny, it's the turn of Colombia's...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: September/2025
YO:song
The much-missed group SsingSsing was the vehicle that brought Lee Heemoon to international fame, a genre-blending, gender-bending kaleidoscopic take on...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: September/2025
Toumaro
If it wasn’t for Salif Keita, Kassé Mady Diabaté would surely have been recognised as the finest male vocalist in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Shadows
Shadows is an avant-garde exploration of South East Asian musical traditions. Like the shadow puppetry that Indonesian gamelan often accompanies,...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: September/2025
The Ballad of the Gatekeeper
English folk music, in finding its commercial feet over the past decade or so, has become easier on the ear,...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: September/2025
Write It Down
The second album by self-described “New York-based rock and roll and rhythm and blues garage gospel band” Jackson and the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: September/2025
Nishabourak
Hamid Motebassem and George Crotty Trio
This collaborative album is born of a musical meeting at Toronto's Experimental Link Series event. The series focuses on celebrating...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: September/2025
