Reviews
Insomnia and Seven Steps to Grace
As a poet, Joy Harjo is one of the most celebrated American voices of the last century. Insomnia and Seven...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Shadow Child
This is both a concept album and a conception album, featuring a nine-song cycle composed by Canadian singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
vipérine
This delightfully strange set comes from US-born Marseille resident Turner Williams Jr., a string player from the Alabama surrealist scene...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Next Act
The task this North Carolina sextet sets itself here is both to reaffirm their bluegrass roots and to move the...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Monk Con Clave
On his 1989 Afro-Latin tribute album to jazz giant Thelonious Monk, Rumba para Monk, trumpeter Jerry Gonzáles played it largely...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1
For anyone with an interest in the development of 20th-century American music and counterculture, Harry Smith needs little introduction. A...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Ring-A-Bellin’
German-born Nashville resident Thomm Jutz’s new solo album is a big affair, with 18 songs spanning over an hour. However,...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Glorious Mahalia
The latest album from the legendary string quartet pays tribute to the great gospel singer and civil rights figure Mahalia...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Heavy Water
Heavy Water is music-making at its most sublimely imagined and laudably purposed. It’s the first album by Magic Tuber Stringband...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
Dark on a Sunny Day
Maisy Owen, a 22-year-old new signing to Tompkins Square, showcases the intense richness of her voice on her debut, which...
Reviewed in issue June/2026
