Reviews

Neu Om

Amanda Mur

Amanda Mur’s debut album spins like a richly gothic journey through the netherworld. Ranging from ambience to avant garde, the...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Ar Lagad-Bleiz

Spontus

Breton dance quartet Spontus are renowned for the proficiency of their playing. In their music, violin, bass, acoustic guitar and...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Elan

The Gentle Good

A confessed city boy, Gareth Bonello, aka The Gentle Good, wrote this album during a year-long residency in Wales’ Elan...

Reviewed in issue August/2025

Glaschu – Songs to a City

Màiri MacMillan

Native Gaelic speaker Màiri MacMillan transforms three decades of Glasgow life into a stunning musical tribute with her new album...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Scenes from uniXia

boci

boci describes her second, even more esoteric, album as a psycho-magical concept set in her own world, uniXia: “During a...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Transform Me Then Into A Fish

Martin Carthy

Carthy celebrates his 84th birthday on May 21 with a new album that echoes, after 60 years, his first. Transform...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Eilifð

Anúna

Formed in 1987 by the composer Michael McGlynn, Anúna have become surely the best-known vocal group (he doesn’t like to...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Dancing the Line

Ultan O’Brien

Ultan O’Brien is a fiddler and composer hailing from County Clare in West Ireland with an interest in both the...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Swilkie

Iona Lane

The Swilkie is a dangerous whirlpool between Orkney and the Scottish mainland. It’s where, according to Icelandic legend, the salt...

Reviewed in issue July/2025

Two Boats Under the Moon

Donald WG Lindsay

Those who have followed Donald Lindsay’s musical output may be surprised to learn that Two Boats Under the Moon is...

Reviewed in issue July/2025