Reviews

Grounded

Cara

Originally due to be released as The Spell of Winter in December 2020, COVID-19 lockdowns have forced a much later...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Connectivity

Grace Petrie

Grace Petrie has her huge following of loyal fans and their propensity for singing in mind on her aptly-named new...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Spiorachas: A High Place

Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach

With their fourth album, Scottish fiddle and piano partnership Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach confirm their ability to sing the...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Dreamless Days

The Meadows

The Meadows are a family band of four siblings: sisters Melody, Fantasia and Titania Meadows, and their brother, Harvey. Harvey...

Reviewed in issue December/2021

Stand Up Now: Songs from the Landworkers’ Alliance

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The canon of British folk song is rich with stories and beautiful evocations of landscape, nature, country life and work....

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Fallow Ground

Spiers & Boden

Spiers & Boden have had a defining role in 21st-century British folk, from their early years with Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers,...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

HEISK

HEISK

Punchy drums, electronic flourishes, ear-catching grooves: this is instrumental trad-inspired tunes taken out of the pub and elevated to the...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

MISST.EU!

MISST

This Belgian harmony group constitutes ‘five voices – four misses and a mister.’ Having represented Flanders at the 2017 Ferrara...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Fire Draw Near

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fire Draw Near is a bewitching baker's dozen of often rough and raw but altogether relishable recordings. Compiled by Lankum's...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Songs Without Authors Vol 1

Broadside Hacks

Every emerging folk singer likes to think their interpretation offers the listener a chance to hear, to think, something new:...

Reviewed in issue November/2021