Reviews
Oriental Soul
Just when you think you’ve discovered all the greats from the heyday of Turkish psych, along comes a rare nugget...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2025
Transformation Time
Best-known until now as the lead vocalist for the LA band Chicano Batman, Bardo (whose full name is Bardo Martinez)...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
Sunshine Music
ALA.Ni is a west London-born, Paris-based singer, songwriter and composer of Grenadian heritage whose debut 2016 album You & I...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2025
Guitari Baro
It’s always good to welcome a new label specialising in the kind of music Songlines covers and Chrysalis Global gets...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025
This Material Moment
Me Lost Me’s Jayne Dent has a voice that cuts through dreams. Up close and without affectation, it is the...
Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: October/2025
What Love Is
Katie Spencer’s third album proves that she is a fine singer-songwriter, and an excellent guitarist with a style that at...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
Selva Selva
Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and a researcher specialising in Amazonian music, Percy A Flores Navarro joins Michel Paredes on bass...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: October/2025
Electric Chicha: The Singles Collection
A potent brew of Amazonian cumbia, Andean huayno and Latin rock, chicha is a Peruvian good-time hybrid that typically, like...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025
Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day
Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar & Sary Moussa
Recorded August 2, 2024 in Beirut, during Israeli aggression against Lebanon, this album consists of a single unedited ambient improvisation...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
