Reviews

Tomorrow Held

Spafford Campbell

Opening with minimal, subliminal guitar, very quiet and very still, an expressive fiddle soon eases in, the two shapeshifting around...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Upstairs in a Tent

Tellefs

Norwegian folk educator and multi-instrumentalist Tellef Kvifte has been a prominent figure in his native music scene for some years...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Mirra

Benedicte Maurseth

Benedicte Maurseth's love of, and inspiration in, the environment of the wind-swept alpine Hardangervidda plateau in Norway – where she...

Reviewed in issue September/2025

Danse Divines

DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson

Danse Divines is the fourth album from this French duo with a sun-kissed Afropean lilt and beats ranging from disco...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Evigheten Forestår

Hekate

Meet Hekate, a vocal trio that have already cast a spell over audiences with their chilling and thrilling brew of...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Trespass

Alex Roberts

“Alex plays bloody wonderfully,” said the late great John Renbourn, of Pentangle fame, and here’s a new set that proves...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Lineage

CAIN

What’s a techno/broken beat DJ doing in Songlines? Duncan Grant aka CAIN has been making electronic music for years, but...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Quattro

Bonifica Emiliana Veneta

Bonifica Emiliana Veneta return with a brand-new recording after nearly two decades. Quattro refers to both their fourth release and...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

An 424

Trá Pháidín

Imagine an amalgam of traditional Irish folk, post-rock, jazz and the disruptive spirit of Dada, stir provocatively with nine musicians...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

The Devil Rides Again

Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia

There is no doubt that Fanfare Ciocarlia remain among the fastest and most precise brass bands in the world. And...

Reviewed in issue August/2025