Reviews

Ballads of the Broken Few

Seth Lakeman featuring Wildwood Kin

The sound of Devon singer-songwriter and fiddler Seth Lakeman is well-known to many. This is his eighth studio album since...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Turmio

Okra Playground

This is one of the most exciting bands to come out of Finland in recent times. The members of Okra...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Here We Go 1, 2, 3

Heidi Talbot

There's a personal feel to proceedings on this fifth solo album from the Irish-born, multiple BBC Folk Award nominee. Not...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Esperanto

Dimitris Mystakidis

Dimitris Mystakidis’ avowed mission is to restore acoustic folk guitar to its rightful place in Greek popular music, long dominated...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Overnight

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

The award-winning duo's first album for Rough Trade is their finest work to date, and certainly among the best folk...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Upcetera

Jim Moray

His first solo work in four years could easily be subtitled ‘Jim Moray with Strings,’ with the multi-tracked cello and...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Instar

Nancy Kerr

Ecology, politics, and the rigours and inequities of the present framed by the struggles and injustices of the past are...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Flit

Martin Green

Martin Green is best known as the accordion and electronica genius from Lau, but he's also a bravely experimental soloist....

Reviewed in issue November/2016

The Albino Peacock

Bonfire Radicals

With a fun mix of clarinets, bouzouki, kaval, violins, drums, bass, electric guitar, autoharp, dulcimer and recorders, Birmingham-based Bonfire Radicals...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

The Beast Below

Apple of My Eye

There is a tinkling delicacy to the music of Apple of My Eye. Comprised of musicians with a strong theatrical...

Reviewed in issue November/2016