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Review of Hunter & the Hunted

Hunter & the Hunted

Fellow Pynins

Fellow Pynins

Rating: ★★★

Fans of the softer, gentler side of the neo-folk Americana spectrum will be enthralled by Hunter & the Hunted, the...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2016

Review of O Groth y Ddaear

O Groth y Ddaear

Gwilym Bowen Rhys

Fflach Records

Rating: ★★★

Perhaps better known for his work as frontman for the Welsh rock band Y Bandana or as part of psychedelic...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2016

Review of Wild Hog

Wild Hog

The Furrow Collective

Top of the World

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Wild Hog is the follow-up to Lucy Farrell, Emily Portman, Rachel Newton and Alasdair Roberts’ collaborative debut, At Our Next...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2016

Review of Early Scottish Ragtime

Early Scottish Ragtime

Vic Gammon & Friends

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Dr Vic Gammon recently retired from the International Centre for Music Studies at the Newcastle University, but is as busy...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: December/2016

Review of Cross the Line

Cross the Line

Fara

Fara Music

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from Orkney, and mentored by Douglas Montgomery (The Chair, Saltfishforty), the all-female group Fara is comprised of Jennifer Austin...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: December/2016

Review of Life in a Paper Boat

Life in a Paper Boat

Kate Rusby

Pure Records

Rating: ★★★

This is Kate Rusby's 14th studio album in nearly 25 years as an artist – quite an achievement. Life in...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: December/2016

Review of Inglorious Technicolor

Inglorious Technicolor

Voodoo Love Orchestra

Movimientos

Rating: ★★

This Brighton crew perform daubed in pallid Day of the Dead skull-masks. Their music is quite a concoction, with swirling...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: December/2016

Review of Brass Like it Hot

Brass Like it Hot

Dzambo Agusevi Orchestra

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★

Dzambo Agusevi was born in 1987 into a Roma musical family in Strumica, Macedonia, and joined his father's orchestra playing...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: December/2016

Review of Sunday Morning Sessions

Sunday Morning Sessions

Thrace

Top of the World

Harmonia Mundi

Rating: ★★★★★

Thrace is a quartet of musicians formed around classical cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, a long-serving member of Pierre Boulez's Ensemble Intercontemporain....

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2016

Review of Aim

Aim

MIA

Interscope Records

Rating: ★★★★

Mathangi Arulpragasam – better known as the artist MIA, whose songs for the film Slumdog Millionaire earned her Oscar and...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2016

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