Reviews

Itku

Okra Playground

Itku is the third studio album from Okra Playground, a Finnish six-piece who, since their 2015 debut, Turmio, have rightfully...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Gavin Fairhall Lever

Gavin Fairhall Lever

James Patrick Gavin on fiddle and vocals, double bassist Tim Fairhall and Adrian Lever on guitar, vocals, harmonium and piano...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

For the Night

Elephant Sessions

Cool, hip, vibrant might alone be three words that sum up Elephant Sessions’ forth release, For the Night. Building on...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Fàs

Breabach

Popular Scottish band Breabach return with their first album in four years having used the enforced periods of gigging inactivity...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

While I Sit and Watch This Tree Vol 2

Lizabett Russo

Born in Romania, but now based in Scotland, Lizabett Russo is a singer-songwriter influenced by Western and Romanian traditional styles,...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Love Hurts

ENKEL

Finnish folk quartet ENKEL return with their third studio album, a mix of traditional and contemporary numbers. All four women...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

DanSando

Luísa Sobral

For her sixth album, Portuguese singer-songwriter Luísa Sobral wanted to release ‘an ode to life’ – a drop of medicine...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Unquenching Fire

SykesMartin

As soon as you see the names Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin together you’re excited. They have two of the...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

No More the Green Hills

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

‘She Moves Through the Fair’, ‘As I Roved Out’, ‘Johnny, My Man’… Janice Burns and Jon Doran have chosen some...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Queen of the Whirl

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

‘I've given blow jobs on couches to men who don't want me anymore’ – that first line of Eliza Carthy's...

Reviewed in issue December/2022