Reviews
Underwater Cairngorms
Mhairi Hall & David de la Haye
A collaboration between composer Mhairi Hall and field recordist David de la Haye, Underwater Cairngorms combines sounds captured from below...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: December/2025
Earth Is Begging
After a decade of being The KutiMangoes, in 2022, the Denmark-based band rebranded as Sunbörn, vowing to “bring people together”...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2025
Feux
This third record from Paris-based jazz quintet Theorem of Joy offers a bounty of searching compositions and stirring improv. Its...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: December/2025
Norwegian Electronic Folk Music
Kenneth Lien & Center of the Universe
Norway has a thriving and intriguing experimental folk scene, and multi-instrumentalist Kenneth Lien is one of its key exponents. I...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Luna, cera e vino
This is a classy album of Italian electro-folk from a trio that formed back in Caserta, north of Naples, in...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2025
Transcendent Phoenix
This is the debut album of Lucina Yue, a player of the Chinese harp, konghou. Mastered by multi-Grammy-winning engineer Alan...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: December/2025
Mifankatiava
Two years ago, four young musicians from Madagascar founded the group Loko Gasy, which has now culminated in their debut...
Reviewed by Łukasz Komła in issue: December/2025
Lek Mak: A Footprint From Bougainville / Hamoris Lian Timor: Reviving the Sound of Timor
These new ethnographic-oriented albums document recent Pacific projects initiated by Australian-based label Wantok Musik in the two formerly war-torn island...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: December/2025
Sîn
Did you ever go into a shop selling vapes and mobile phone cases and the dude behind the counter is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2025
