Reviews

This Material Moment

Me Lost Me

Me Lost Me’s Jayne Dent has a voice that cuts through dreams. Up close and without affectation, it is the...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

What Love Is

Katie Spencer

Katie Spencer’s third album proves that she is a fine singer-songwriter, and an excellent guitarist with a style that at...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

Asteartea

Bea Asurmendi

Bea Asurmendi is a London-based Basque singer-songwriter and Guildhall graduate with a sensitive, wide-ranging voice. This album was informed by...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

The End

Junior Brother

“The sound of the album is supposed to take the organic instruments of Irish traditional music and lift them somewhere...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

Stråk

Qvam / Plassen

In the mid-17th century, the copper mining industry began in the Norwegian town of Røros. The mines needed coal and...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

XXX

Söndörgő

The latest album from Hungarian tambura band Söndörgő isn’t triple X-rated, but it does mark their 30th anniversary. Their name...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

Needless Alley

Jon Wilks

Named after a backstreet that runs through his home city of Birmingham, Wilks’ third album arrives rich in original songs...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

Bridge of Glass

Plønk

Christian Mohr Levisen hails from Denmark, while his musical partner Björn Kaidel comes from Germany. Together, they record as Plønk,...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

Dedications

Sullow

A distributary of the folk futurist group Shovel Dance Collective, Sullows are an improvising outfit consisting of Jacken Elswyth, Daniel...

Reviewed in issue October/2025

Whitby

David Boulter

David Boulter is a founding member of alternative rock band Tindersticks, but has been releasing solo music for years. In...

Reviewed in issue October/2025