Reviews
Many Faces
The cover of this sophomore album by London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur sums up its questing, fizzing, all-for-one spirit. Here, inside...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Banjophonics
With tune titles including ‘Daisy’s Dance’ and ‘Happy Little Phoebe’ (Daisy and Phoebe being the names of Damien O’Kane’s two...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Mỹ Lai
Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Rinde Eckert
The Apocalypse Now image on the album cover and the title Mỹ Lai, the name of a terrible massacre of...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
White Power Outage Vol 2
The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
KG Westman & Zaعfaran
This unlikely mash-up of music and musicians from India, Egypt and Sweden is, perhaps against the odds, a resounding success....
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Recalibrate
From the first beats of ‘I Wanna Talk to You’, the opening track of Eccodek’s fifth studio album Recalibrate, you...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Avalanche Kaito
When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Beyond the Pale
Gather around the campfire… Bush Gothic have 12 tracks’ worth of tales to tell. Of convicts and cattle wranglers, miners...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Sun God
British fusion band Sunday Driver’s latest release is their first since the EP Flo in 2014. While Flo was a...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2022
Indo-Arabic Variations
As this 1980 album has been increasing in value over the years (original copies appear to go for around £50...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
