Reviews

Skydancers

Martin Simpson

‘The bird completes the skyline’ is a refrain in the title-track of Martin Simpson’s new album. Simpson loves birds; a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Bonny Light Horseman

With Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free, Bonny Light Horseman deliver a capacious collection of acoustic Americana. The process...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

From the Ground

Laura-Beth Salter & Ali Hutton

Nature now can be attributed as a band member on albums and songs, and it should see royalties pour down...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

All You Need is Death

Ian Lynch

All You Need is Death is the first cinematic soundtrack from Lankum’s Ian Lynch. The film of the same name...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Gordan

Gordan

The members of Gordan are Serbian singer Svetlana Spajić, Austrian percussionist Andi Stecher and German bassist and electronics specialist Guido...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Birds

Vedan Kolod

A strange, compelling concept album from a family folk trio from Siberia who are deservedly well-known across Russia. Vedan Kolod...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Lúireach

Landless

Landless are a female vocal quartet – Ruth Clinton, Sinéad Lynch, Méabh Meir, Lily Power – newly into their second...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Withershins

Jamie Dickson

Withershins is the debut solo album from Glastonbury-based guitarist Jamie Dickson. A homage to British folk guitar legends such as...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

And Even the Sheep Shall Dance / A Little Bit Slanted (with Molly Donnery) / Tales of Colonsay (with Jessie Summerhayes)

The Ciderhouse Rebellion

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The Ciderhouse Rebellion must be the most prolific outfit in folk...

Reviewed in issue July/2024

Live in Kyoto

Lúnasa

Serving up ten tracks of previously unrecorded material captured in situ before an audience, Live in Kyoto can’t be faulted...

Reviewed in issue July/2024