Reviews
Acide Balkanique
Looking for a guaranteed smash hit for your next world music dance party? Look no further than Acide Balkanique, the...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/2026
Banjovial
After Banjophony and Banjophonics comes the latest album from Damien O’Kane and Ron Block, Banjovial. If you’re paying attention, you’ll...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: January/2026
Crown And Country
This is a very unusual Australian album, featuring the spoken and singing voices of Warlpiri elders Wantarri ‘Wanta’ Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: January/2026
Eadarainn a’ Chruit: Between Us the Harp
Marshalsay’s second album focuses on the three different harps of Scotland (the lever harp, the wire-strung clarsach from the Gaelic...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/2026
Voisinages
Le Vent du Nord have been at the forefront of the Quebecois progressive folk movement for more than two decades,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
Radio Sevdah
The Bosnian band, who won Best Group in the 2023 Songlines Music Awards, launch a radio station in the form...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026
Far From Nowhere
Josienne Clarke | Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Clarke’s songs always have a focused, condensed intensity of purpose, a sensitivity and strength that come from a combination of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026
Rituals
Mariama Ndure is a Norwegian artist born to Gambian parents, and a jazz-loving Berklee College of Music graduate who has...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: January/2026
Scarrow
For Salt House’s fifth album, Scarrow (meaning ‘faint light’), Ewan MacPherson and Jenny Sturgeon are joined by Northumbrian Anna Hughes...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: January/2026
