Reviews
What Love Is
Katie Spencer’s third album proves that she is a fine singer-songwriter, and an excellent guitarist with a style that at...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
Selva Selva
Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and a researcher specialising in Amazonian music, Percy A Flores Navarro joins Michel Paredes on bass...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: October/2025
Electric Chicha: The Singles Collection
A potent brew of Amazonian cumbia, Andean huayno and Latin rock, chicha is a Peruvian good-time hybrid that typically, like...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025
Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day
Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar & Sary Moussa
Recorded August 2, 2024 in Beirut, during Israeli aggression against Lebanon, this album consists of a single unedited ambient improvisation...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025
Tondini plays Mostar Sevdah Reunion Disko 088
Tondini & Mostar Sevdah Reunion
In 2024, Mostar Sevdah Reunion marked the band’s 25th anniversary with Bosa Mara. While the line-up of musicians has changed...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025
40girls / Kita Koun Kan
Ya Tosiba / Sabou-Gnouman De Kita
Purplish Records like to release music as pairs or batches on cassette. Batch #6 consists of albums by Ya Tosiba...
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025
The Channel
South East London fusionists Monzanto Sound occupy a space between contemporary jazz, funk, electronica and African diasporic influences. Many bands...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: October/2025
Subtropical
If we require genres, perhaps ‘heavy-dub-espionage-movie-theme cumbia’ will suffice for this latest work from Emanuele Flandoli and his new five-piece...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2025
Vol. III: Ancestros Futuros
After a long tenure in the horn section of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, and working with the likes of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025
Zulu Guitar Blues: Cowboys, Troubadours and Jilted Lovers 1950–1965
VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists
This is a truly extraordinary album, a captivating chronicle of the glorious, rousing and defiant music that was created during...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025
