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Review of Ese Puerto Existe

Ese Puerto Existe

Insólito UniVerso

Olindo

Rating: ★★★★

With their second album, Paris-based Venezuelan trio Insólito UniVerso continue their dream-laden dialogue between adopted city and longed-for homeland, as...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2023

Review of Waterfjord

Waterfjord

Matti Kallio

Matti Kallio

Rating: ★★★★

With the title of his third album Matti Kallio playfully honours his origins while tipping his hat to a long...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2023

Review of La Mujer Que Yo Quiero

La Mujer Que Yo Quiero

David Broza

David Broza

Rating: ★★★★

The story of how Israeli singer and guitarist David Broza's new album La Mujer Que Yo Quiero came about is...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: May/2023

Review of Ecorcha/Taillée

Ecorcha/Taillée

La Tène

Bongo Joe

Rating: ★★

La Tène's latest album, Ecorcha/Taillée, is a two-track journey into the depths of the experimental avant-garde. The French-Swiss trio are...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2023

Review of False Lankum

False Lankum

Lankum

Top of the World

Rough Trade Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Just over three years after the RTÉ Choice Music Prize-winning The Livelong Day, Dublin's Lankum return with their fourth full-length...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023

Review of On the Romance of Being

On the Romance of Being

Desire Marea

Mute

Rating: ★★★★

Based in the Amandawe township in KwaZulu-Natal, Desire Marea has held a place at the centre of South Africa's queer...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023

Review of Ségou to Lagos

Ségou to Lagos

Solomane Doumbia

Mieruba

Rating: ★★★★

There are many names that come to mind when one thinks of the great Malian musicians, but despite serving as...

Reviewed by Lucy Hallam in issue: May/2023

Review of Músiques Per Emportar-Se a Illes Desertes

Músiques Per Emportar-Se a Illes Desertes

Clavellina d''Aire

Microscopi

Rating: ★★★★★

Clavellina d'Aire is the Catalan word for a bromeliad or air plant. These grow not in the earth but high...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: May/2023

Review of Emergency of the Female Kind

Emergency of the Female Kind

Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles

Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles

Rating: ★★★

Mixing amped up accordion with dynamic percussion, Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles are certainly bringing something new to the table....

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: May/2023

Review of What Are We Trying to Say

What Are We Trying to Say

Megson

EDJ Records

Rating: ★★★

Teesside-born husband-and-wife duo Stu and Debbie Hanna have racked up a dozen studio and live albums in a near 20-year...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: May/2023

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