Reviews

Nordic Reflections

Maimu Jõgeda

Maimu Jõgeda is an Estonian now living in Helsinki, and Nordic Reflections is her third album. It features nine original...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Northern Sky

The Friel Sisters

Anna, Sheila and Clare Friel of Donegal play the fiddle, flute, tin whistle and uilleann pipes, and between them trade...

Reviewed in issue May/2025

Forgotten Tunes

Jarek Adamów & Nadbużanie

Jarek Adamów has been championing traditional Polish folk music for some 25 years. His albums have received mixed reviews in...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Wasteland

Jim Ghedi

There’s no contemporary singer quite like Jim Ghedi. In his otherworldly voice, with its underlay of drone mechanics, I hear...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Songs for You

Brigid Mae Power

Recorded as a tribute to Power’s late father, Songs for You is a touchingly heartfelt collection of covers. Harbach &...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Mirrored Daughters

Mirrored Daughters

The record label describes Mirrored Daughters as “lo-fi folk-pop and explorative woodland meditations”, which sums it up quite neatly. Melodic...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Sanju

Flook

Flook have been one of the most distinctive-sounding, innovative instrumental folk bands in Britain and Ireland since they formed in...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Boss Morris

Boss Morris

The self-titled debut from Boss Morris soars with all the melancholy folk beauty of a Red Kite in a wintry...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Dans fra Dalstrøka

Hornorkesteret

By their own admission, the music of Norwegian sextet Hornorkesteret is hard to describe, and the line-up does little to...

Reviewed in issue April/2025

Folk Process

Cunning Folk

When do original songs enter into the folk process, shedding that singular point of origin for the rough and tumble...

Reviewed in issue April/2025