Reviews
All It Brings
All It Brings begins with fiddler Jocelyn Pettit step dancing in that familiar cantering cadence of Scots-Irish-French origin that Canadians...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Em Casa Com os Gil
Released to coincide both with Gil’s 80th birthday and the Amazon documentary series At Home With the Gils, this soundtrack...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
The New Faith
Following his impressive 2020 debut album, Spider Tales (reviewed in October 2020, #161), The New Faith fulfils the promise of...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Long Time to Be Gone
Listening to ‘Jenny Put the Kettle On’, the opening track on Nora Brown’s third full-length album, Long Time to Be...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Rolling Golden Holy
Rolling Golden Holy straddles the realms of acoustic roots, indie rock, jazz, folk, country and pop. Drawing upon that mash-up...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Calypso Rose Forever
The return to the spotlight in 2016 of the veteran Calypso Rose, half-a-century after she was first crowned Trinidad’s carnival...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Rosa e Azul
The last time Songlines reviewed Alliye was for her 2006 release Arrebol, when she was living in Paris as Aline...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Mista Savona Presents Havana Meets Kingston Part 2
Five years after stars young and old assembled under the aegis of Australian dancehall producer Jake Dominic ‘Mista’ Savona for...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Ver Tente
The fourth album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Maria Rita Stumpf, Ver Tente, brings together her four decades of musical output. After...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Where the Big Lamp Shines
Where the Big Lamp Shines marks the official recording debut of The Often Herd, self-described as ‘progressive bluegrass based in...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
