Reviews
First Dance on Second Avenue
She'Koyokh, the London band who take their name from a Yiddish greeting, are a brilliant live ensemble who effortlessly blend...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Siren Serenade
This is the debut album from another young artist to emerge from the vibrant and experimental English folk scene. Ben...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Room With a View
After six years, Old Blind Dogs are back. Founded by fiddler Jonny Hardie in 1990 while busking in the Highlands,...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Hard Ground
The Rachel Hamer Band met on the folk degree course at Newcastle University. They play with gusto and confidence and...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Eponymous
This is the debut album from a Swiss-based, Bosnian-born accordionist, who was signed by Geoff Barrow (of Portishead) to his...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Kíla Alive
Recorded live in various venues throughout 2016, this latest offering from the irrepressible Kíla captures the outfit in their natural...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Pesme iz Jasenovca (Songs from Jasenovac)
‘Emergency ethnomusicology,’ as they call it, is a set of urgent interventions needing to be taken to record or preserve...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Unfolding the Roots
Projects such as this, in which everyone is playing the same type of instrument, can often seem like a nerdy...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Verging on the Perpendicular
Clawhammer banjo player, singer and songwriter Dan Walsh is a prolific performer and is becoming an ever more noticeable figure...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
