Reviews
Emergency of the Female Kind
Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles
Mixing amped up accordion with dynamic percussion, Amy Thatcher & Francesca Knowles are certainly bringing something new to the table....
Reviewed in issue May/2023
What Are We Trying to Say
Teesside-born husband-and-wife duo Stu and Debbie Hanna have racked up a dozen studio and live albums in a near 20-year...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Tiny Notes
If there's healing in song, then The Young’uns are performing some kind of mental health service for their nation. The...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Pontos de Passagem
Fado Malvado are a Portuguese quartet that focus on the musical bond between an accordion, a pair of guitars and...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Volume 1
Having played together on various projects over the last few years, it was maybe inevitable that harmonica whizz Will Pound...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Sølvstrøk
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola
Sølvstrøk – the title alone drips with poetry and mystery. It translates as ‘Silverstroke,’ but hang on to that Norwegian...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
O’Neill's Tunes
Starting life as a book, it was inevitable that Dan Walsh would end up recording his dream project, O’Neill's Tunes....
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Grief in the Kitchen and Mirth in the Hall
Roberts has released a number of albums devoted to traditional songs over the course of the past two decades, 2010's...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
A Celtic Celebration
The Bookends with The Stratford Symphony Orchestra
Like The Siskin Quartet, The Bookends are a quartet formed by the bringing together of two couples. Hailing from Stratford,...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
