Reviews
No New Summers
Deceptively, No New Summers opens with ‘No Spring Chicken’ – five minutes of solo American primitive John Fahey-style guitar. The...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: July/2025
Viens Me Chercher
In the 1940s, Cajun music had descended into a jumble of English language, Western swing-influenced fiddle stringband, a far cry...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: July/2025
Tidawt
This new tape from Malian guitarist Ahmed Ag Kaedy and Australian drummer Will Guthrie is full of dynamism. The hot...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: July/2025
Ella Hanshaw’s Black Book
Growing up in West Virginia in the 1930s and 40s, this singer-songwriter, while listening to the likes of Merle Haggard...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: July/2025
Hawalat
It’s been hard keeping track of the work of Charif Megarbane. The Lebanese composer and multi-instrumentalist has released dozens of...
Reviewed by Paul Bowler in issue: July/2025
Scenes from uniXia
boci describes her second, even more esoteric, album as a psycho-magical concept set in her own world, uniXia: “During a...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: July/2025
Transform Me Then Into A Fish
Carthy celebrates his 84th birthday on May 21 with a new album that echoes, after 60 years, his first. Transform...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2025
Teleology
If this really is the final album from Peggy Seeger, then the great lady is going out in style. Released...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: July/2025
