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Review of Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2

Woody At Home – Volumes 1 & 2

Woody Guthrie

Shamus

Rating: ★★★★

Woody Guthrie recorded these raw and intimate home tapes in his Brooklyn apartment during 1951 and 1952 as demos for...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2025

Review of Whitby

Whitby

David Boulter

Clay Pipe Music

Rating: ★★★★★

David Boulter is a founding member of alternative rock band Tindersticks, but has been releasing solo music for years. In...

Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: October/2025

Review of Ghazel

Ghazel

Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme

Ruptured Records

Rating: ★★★★

Formed in 2022, the collaboration between the Lebanese duo of buzuq player Farah Kaddour and guitarist/producer Marwan Tohme is a...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025

Review of Club Coco – New Dimensions in Latin Music

Club Coco – New Dimensions in Latin Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

Club Coco

Rating: ★★★

The Dominican-American Charlie Chimi’s ‘Échale Candela’ (Set it on Fire) was what first sparked Mexican DJ Coco Maria to assemble...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2025

Review of I remember I forget

I remember I forget

Yasmine Hamdan

Top of the World

Crammed Discs

Rating: ★★★★★

On her 2001 album as half of Beirut-based synth-pop duo Soapkills, Yasmine Hamdan captured the destruction and rebirth of her...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: October/2025

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Yaelllavie

Akuphone

Rating: ★★★

After having previously released an album of immersive improvised music with her trio Sharav, interdisciplinary composer and qanun player Yael...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: October/2025

Review of Encyclopedia Mandolinnica

Encyclopedia Mandolinnica

Ethan Setiawan

Sassafras Hill Productions/Adhyâropa Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mandolinist Ethan Setiawan’s latest album, Encyclopedia Mandolinnica, showcases the Indiana-born, Berklee School of Music graduate’s virtuosic skills in a series...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: October/2025

Review of Mischief In The Musitorium

Mischief In The Musitorium

Funkwrench Blues

Need To Know Music

Rating: ★★★★

Frank Swart is an American maverick. A bass player and producer, he has worked and played with blues, rock and...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: October/2025

Review of Four Spirits

Four Spirits

Abel Selaocoe

Top of the World

Warner Classics

Rating: ★★★★★

Is Abel Selaocoe the most exciting musician in the world right now? Adding to the growing case is his third...

Reviewed by Oliver Craske in issue: October/2025

Review of Sílvia & Salvador

Sílvia & Salvador

Sílvia Pérez Cruz & Salvador Sobral

Warner Music Spain

Rating: ★★★★

Whenever two high-profile singers make an album together there is the possibility of courting disaster. But Sílvia Pérez Cruz and...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: October/2025

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