Reviews | Songlines

Reviews

Review of OVA

OVA

Afro Celt Sound System

Top of the World

Six Degrees Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a bittersweet triumph from one of the world’s finest fusion bands. The Afro Celts were founded by Simon...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: December/2024

Review of symbiont

symbiont

Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin

Top of the World

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★★★

On Spider Tales, his 2020 debut album, Jake Blount blazed a trail through the forest of roots music in general...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2024

Review of Nijerusalem

Nijerusalem

Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel

Batov Records

Rating: ★★

Like the Vangelis of West Africa, Mamman Sani began recording his electronic keyboard music in the late 1970s and is...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2024

Review of Odisseia Tropical

Odisseia Tropical

Drumagick

Audio Network

Rating: ★★★

Maybe the nights are drawing in, but this album will bring the sun back and put a spring in your...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: December/2024

Review of Dance of Love

Dance of Love

Tucker Zimmerman

4AD

Rating: ★★★

Born in 1941 in San Francisco, Belgium-based folk singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman is a child of the 60s. Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, draft-dodging...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2024

Review of In the Dark We Grow

In the Dark We Grow

Hannah Saunders & Ben Savage

Sungrazing Records

Rating: ★★★★

The folk duo’s fourth album, In the Dark We Grow, steers away from the compelling introspective spareness of 2022’s Ink...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2024

Review of Chasing Light

Chasing Light

Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts

Cup & Ring

Rating: ★★★

Self-described trad/psych/Baroque-folk guitarist-songwriter Henry Parker and folk-guitarist-songwriter David Ian Roberts have produced a lovely collection of original acoustic fingerpicking songs....

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2024

Review of Chidzorogodo

Chidzorogodo

WaCharie

WaCharie

Rating: ★★★

With an infectiously relaxed lyrical approach carried along by pulsing, laid-back rhythms and a vocal style that owes a debt...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: December/2024

Review of Kiho’alu: Stories in Song, Vol 1

Kiho’alu: Stories in Song, Vol 1

George Kuo

Dancing Cat Records

Rating: ★★★★

How delightful to have a new album from Dancing Cat Records. Founded by George Winston in the early 80s, this...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2024

Review of For the Dreams

For the Dreams

King Stingray

Civilians

Rating: ★★★★

Ever since they began releasing hit singles in 2020, culminating in their self-titled 2022 debut album, it’s been impossible not...

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: December/2024

Subscribe from only £7.50

Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.

Subscribe

View the Current
Issue

Take a peek inside the latest issue of Songlines magazine.

Find out more