Reviews
Ruins/Adfeilion
This is very highbrow folk. Gareth Bonello – aka The Gentle Good – is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and general thinker....
Reviewed in issue December/2016
The First Snow
Ronan le Bars plays the cornemuse Irlandaise – better known as uilleann pipes – and he's brought their distinctive timbre...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
O Groth y Ddaear
Perhaps better known for his work as frontman for the Welsh rock band Y Bandana or as part of psychedelic...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Wild Hog
Wild Hog is the follow-up to Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman, Rachel Newton and Alasdair Roberts’ collaborative debut, At Our Next...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Early Scottish Ragtime
Dr Vic Gammon recently retired from the International Centre for Music Studies at the Newcastle University, but is as busy...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Cross the Line
Hailing from Orkney, and mentored by Douglas Montgomery (The Chair, Saltfishforty), the all-female group Fara is comprised of Jennifer Austin...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Life in a Paper Boat
This is Kate Rusby's 14th studio album in nearly 25 years as an artist – quite an achievement. Life in...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
Brass Like it Hot
Dzambo Agusevi was born in 1987 into a Roma musical family in Strumica, Macedonia, and joined his father's orchestra playing...
Reviewed in issue December/2016
River Waiting
If last year's self-titled four-track teaser from Northern Ireland quintet Connla introduced an outfit of promise, their debut long-player confirms...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
