Reviews

Lines: Parts One, Two and Three

The Unthanks

Lines, the latest of The Unthanks' many ambitious and innovative projects, is a trilogy of song cycles, each with a...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Rise Up

The Outside Track

Award-winning Celtic five-piece The Outside Track have a strong pedigree for a band that live in different countries. They've got...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

FunFara

Banda Osiris

This highly skilled Piedmont wind instrument ensemble got started in 1980, favouring theatricality and comicality in their music shows. Now,...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff

The Young'uns

“If they were expecting any rewards, they didn't get any rewards. They were the first people to be victimised,” we...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Aonair

David Munnelly

David Munnelly is a button accordion player whose musical roots in Irish music stretch far, to French, Gypsy, swing and...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Round & Round

Ciaran O'Kane

County Antrim-based Ciaran O'Kane's debut album is a fine and muscular release. Opening with the traditional track ‘The Banks of...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

K

Kalàscima

A hot live band, Kalàscima are at the forefront of the wave of Italian musicians writing new material that combines...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Midnight and Closedown

Lau

After a wait of nearly four years the British folk scene's bravest experimenters are back with their fifth studio album,...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Testvériség (Brotherhood)

Cimbalom Brothers

Slightly confusingly, the two Hungarian cimbalom players in this quartet are not brothers – I suspect one cimbalom player is...

Reviewed in issue March/2019

Last Night's Joy

Gerry O'Connor

Renowned for his lightness of touch and sweetness of sound, Co Louth fiddler Gerry O'Connor has been a major presence...

Reviewed in issue March/2019