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Review of Hawaiian Cowboy

Hawaiian Cowboy

Slack Key ‘Ohana

Pacific Records

Rating: ★★★

‘‘Ohana’ is the Hawaiian word for ‘family’. And slack key is a form of tuning and playing guitar developed in...

Reviewed by Jeff Kaliss in issue: May/2024

Review of Vida

Vida

Ana Tijoux

Victoria Producciones

Rating: ★★★

Vida is Ana Tijoux’s first album in a decade. That does not mean the Chilean rapper was hiding from the...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: May/2024

Review of Bomba Pop

Bomba Pop

Amsterdam Klezmer Band

Top of the World

Vetnasj Records

Rating: ★★★★

Amsterdam Klezmer Band are full of chutzpah — or, as the Dutch say, gotspe. Just two years shy of the...

Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: May/2024

Review of Deep Sea Vents

Deep Sea Vents

BrhyM

Zappo Productions / Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★

Deep Sea Vents is a self-consciously quirky, sometimes witty and occasionally beguiling ten-track album of songs by Bruce Hornsby in...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024

Review of Nasim-e Sahar

Nasim-e Sahar

Bahareh Fayazi & Asareh Shekarchi

Little Axe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Nasim-e Sahar, featuring the duo of Bahareh Fayazi on tar and Asareh Shekarchi on tombak and avaz (Iranian classical singing),...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2024

Review of All My Friends

All My Friends

Aoife O’Donovan

Top of the World

Yep Roc Records

Rating: ★★★★

A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2024

Review of Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Sings Sezen Aksu

Süeda Çatakoğlu

Ahenk Müzik

Rating: ★★★★

Sezen Aksu: an unconventional contemporary female public figure in Turkey, for half a century she commented with her songs on...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: May/2024

Review of Way Highly

Way Highly

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

A salty dog of an album, Oklahoma roots musician and one-man band Brad Fielder’s new album (or long-ish EP), Way...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: May/2024

Review of Saru l-Qamar

Saru l-Qamar

A Lily

Phantom Limb

Rating: ★★★★

Shivers. Another manifestation of electro-ambient-music from the Global South. I had to think of Naujawanan Baidar’s Khedmat Be Khalq, the...

Reviewed by Neil van der Linden in issue: May/2024

Review of NRTYA

NRTYA

SAICOBAB

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★

NRTYA is an easy record to celebrate but a difficult one to enjoy. The album fully realises its mission of...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: May/2024

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