Reviews
This House Will Stand
For this Best Of set, Oysterband have compiled a disc of choice cuts from across their late-90s and post-2000s career,...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Reste la Lumière
This album starts off, appropriately enough, with a track called ‘Courage’, and the long vocal line supported only by a...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Good Times Will Come Again
The seventh studio album from the enviably self-sufficient husband-and-wife team of Stu and Debbie Hanna, otherwise known as Megson, strikes...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Live: The Farewell Tour
Bellowhead made some great studio albums but their concerts are extraordinary. There was the horn section, kicking like a chorus...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Vårdroppar
It's enough of a selling point to say that the liner notes for this album were written by the great...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Algarabya
The obvious point of reference for La Banda Morisca (The Moorish Band) is the now-defunct Radio Tarifa, with whom they...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Between River and Railway
Dumfries and Galloway have always been a fertile ground for powerful Scottish singers and songwriters and it is clear this...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Red Diesel
It's been a long five years since the trio of singer Lucy Wright, fiddler Tom Kitching and one-man-band Edwin Beasant...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Dvojka
Born in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Damir Imamović is one of the leading names in the country's dynamic new sevdah...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Hungarian Noir: A Tribute to the Gloomy Sunday
Thankfully the song ‘Gloomy Sunday’ does not directly cause people to commit suicide. Otherwise I would be 12 times deceased...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
