Reviews
Voisinages
Le Vent du Nord have been at the forefront of the Quebecois progressive folk movement for more than two decades,...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel, The Unfaithful Servants’ second full-length release, serves up a splendid sampling of the Vancouver Island-based quartet’s distinctive take...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
La Marea
BAFTA Award-winning Latin American composer Bryan Senti returns with a companion piece to his previous album, Manu. Whereas that record...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Safe, Sensible and Sane
Despite both having won pretty much every award going for the banjo, Steve Martin and Alison Brown have never collaborated...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Phylipe Nunes Araújo
With his debut album, the singer-songwriter from Pernambuco adds his own poetic, melodic music to that of similar artists from...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Tropidelicos
From Houston, Texas, will you welcome please… guitarist Gio Alejandro and percussionist Coffee Guzman. Add the cheesy synthesised organ of...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Cathedrals Beneath the Black Mountain
This is an accomplished, confident new album from Denver guitarist D. West, who leans more towards the ‘new age’ instrumental...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Drift
Nashville bluegrass banjo stalwart Wes Corbett’s new album, Drift, is surprisingly spectacular. A member of the Sam Bush Band, Corbett...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Cool Down the Heat
Junior Murvin became reggae’s falsetto voice of choice with his 1976 hit ‘Police and Thieves’, a song whose popularity in...
Reviewed in issue December/2025
