Reviews
Horizon Unlimited
There’s no question that the world needed this beloved 1979 album by Nigeria’s twin Lijadu Sisters back in the spotlight....
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: November/2024
Heavier Yet (Lays the Crownless Head)
Becoming leader of Egypt 80, his legendary father Fela’s band, at the tender age of 14, Seun Kuti has always...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: November/2024
Woodland
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
Precision, persistence and grace in the face of adversity, grief and destruction are at the heart of this impeccably intricate...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2024
Milimo
Niwel Tsumbu is certainly unique. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he ‘grew up on the rhythms of soukous...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2024
Lost Things Returning
This is the second outing with the Cornwall-based, Birmingham-raised alt-folk duo Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy. Following their debut, which...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: December/2024
Sweet Release
‘These strings, this drum, from another world they come, bringing songs of sweet release,’ Adams sings over a thunderous Rachid...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2024
Cracher le Feu
This ‘fire-spitting’ album from Montréal is the work of producer Oonga, who has hooked up with his Belizean equivalent, Ivan...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2024
Drum Machine
Don’t let their slick, suited aesthetic fool you, Ugandan drum ensemble Arsenal Mikebe are serving up a sonic onslaught of...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: December/2024
Wake the Dead
San-Franciscan Chuck Prophet teams up with cumbia urbana group ¿Qiensave? from California with roots in Michoacán, Mexico, on Wake the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: December/2024
The Bird of a Thousand Voices
Tigran Hamasyan & the Yerevan State Chamber Choir | Tigran Hamasyan
Pianist and composer Hamasyan certainly has his admirers and his album Luys i Luso with the Yerevan State Chamber Choir...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: December/2024
