Reviews

A Time to Grow

The Henry Girls

The Breath’s Ríoghnach Connolly guests on this album from the folk trio from Inishowen in northern Donegal, alongside sisters Karen,...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Inner Winter

Gentle Stranger

On previous full-lengths Gentle Stranger have lived up to their self-proclaimed ‘post-clown’ cabaret tag by diligently committing themselves to a...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

CYRM

ØXN

In January 2021, Lankum’s Radie Peat and drone-folk artist Katie Kim hosted a livestream featuring heavy arrangements of traditional tales...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

II

Fränder

Is prog folk a genre? Then Swedish band Fränder may be a fit, with their mix of bombastic vocals, heavy...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Memory Islands

Ellie Wilson

Ellie Wilson is an explorer of the contemporary classical, folk and electronica worlds, and her new album, Memory Islands, documents...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Gula Gula

Mari Boine

Fragile, urgent and strong, Gula Gula reveals itself within the first 20 seconds of the title-track as one of the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Orion

Dina Ögon

Orion is the third album from Scandinavian soul group Dina Ögon (Your Eyes). What do they sound like? Well, this...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

The Colour of Amber

Nick Hart & Tom Moore

Following his terrific Nick Hart Sings… series, award-winning folk singer, musician and steward of English folk song Hart returns in...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Terry Riley in C Irish

VARIOUS ARTISTS

1960s’ minimalist guru Terry Riley’s quixotic masterpiece ‘In C’ filtered through the prism of Irish traditional music? On paper it...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Away Beyond the Fret

Honey & The Bear

East Anglian husband and wife duo Lucy and Jon Hart have coincided their third album with the birth of their...

Reviewed in issue March/2024