Reviews

Mistral

La Frontera

Despite an opening salvo of tracks featuring some irresistible vocals, this fourth record from Italy-based quartet La Frontera is an...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015

Dark Wings of the Night

Tango-Orkesteri Unto

There's something dark and secretive about Finnish tango; that is its great attraction. Listen to archive recordings from the 40s...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015

Soft Power

AJ Holmes & The Hackney Empire

AJ Holmes grew up in East London and has lived in Hackney for the past 15 years. It's an ethnically...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015

Light

Midival Punditz

Midival Punditz consist of Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj, the pioneering electronica artists who have been described as ‘India's Chemical...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015

II

L’Orchestre du Montplaisant

L’Orchestre du Montplaisant are a London-based quartet, although their members are originally from Russia and France, which makes for an...

Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015

Colonised

Eardrum

London-based rhythm masters Eardrum have returned with their fourth full-length release, and what a return they’ve made. The collective was...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Bottle

Eliza Carthy & Tim Eriksen

Bottle opens right up in your face, with the scrub-board electric guitar of Tim Eriksen fighting it out with Eliza...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Big Sun

Chassol

Continuing his experiments with field recordings, Chassol here presents his third ‘ultrascore’, as he describes it, this time sourced from...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Disco at the Tavern

The Demon Barbers

Celebrating 15 years of East Anglian hell-raising, this is a barnstorming set of tracks that deliver the trademark mix of...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Taranta Project

Ludovico Einaudi

From the suspenseful orchestral arrangement and accordion drone that opens this diverse, deeply engaging album, it's obvious that this Turin-born...

Reviewed in issue July/2015