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Review of Groanbox

Groanbox

Groanbox

Groanbox Records

Rating: ★★★

Canada's acoustic world roots-influenced band Groanbox have made a point of recording in unusual settings, and their sixth studio album...

Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: October/2015

Review of Vertical Land

Vertical Land

David John Sheppard

Village Green Records

Rating: ★★★

This album has a clear aim: to aurally conjure that feeling all thoughtful travellers experience, the sense of wonder at...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: October/2015

Review of Café Kállai

Café Kállai

Tcha Limberger's Budapest Gypsy Orchestra

Lejazzetal

Rating: ★★★★

You wait for ages, and then two discs of sumptuous Hungarian Gypsy music come along at once. Both of these...

Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: October/2015

Review of Domestic Eccentric

Domestic Eccentric

Old Man Luedecke

True North Records

Rating: ★★★

As the title suggests, Domestic Eccentric is mostly a record about home and family. Fittingly enough, it was recorded at...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015

Review of A Carousel for Fools

A Carousel for Fools

The Mather Robinson Band

Mather & Robinson

Rating: ★★★

Dave Mather and Pete Robinson grew up together in and around Salford in the 60s but this is only their...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: October/2015

Review of Khiyo

Khiyo

Khiyo

Top of the World

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

This promising debut from a young, London-based band opens thrillingly with the electric-guitar-heavy ‘Akashta Kanpchhilo Kyan’ (Why Did the Sky...

Reviewed by Amardeep Dhillon in issue: October/2015

Review of El Rebusque

El Rebusque

Mama Julia y los Sonidos Ambulantes

Red Oz Music

Rating: ★★★

Since La Mojarra Eléctrica disappeared on indefinite hiatus, the world has been calling out for a new group to combine...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: October/2015

Review of Jenny Does Burn

Jenny Does Burn

Mairi Orr

Mairi Orr

Rating: ★★★★

Jenny Does Burn is the accomplished and moody debut album from Edinburgh-based Mairi Orr. Heavily influenced by American folk traditions...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2015

Review of Jamaica is the Place to Go

Jamaica is the Place to Go

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fantastic Voyage

Rating: ★★

This two-CD set follows 2013's Mento, Not Calypso! by further exploring the 1950s mento scene. Often overshadowed by Trinidad's golden...

Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: October/2015

Review of Surfing Times

Surfing Times

Los Plantronics

Jansen Plateproduksjon

Rating: ★★★

Odd to think that a nation as staid and wealthy as Norway could produce a band as raucous as Los...

Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: October/2015

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