Reviews
Trigger
From the first few bars of the opening track on the debut album by the Israeli keyboardist Sharon Masur, you...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: September/2025
Mirrormouth
Irish singer, composer, performance artist and puppeteer, Branwen Kavanagh's Mirrormouth shepherds us through a pensive, wistful landscape. Surrealism – both...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025
Poems & Non-Fiction
Newcastle-based singer, musician and disability activist Ruth Lyon's Poems & Non-Fiction is a stonking slice of indie-folk, layered with lush...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: September/2025
Orbits
In their debut release Spirit, Auckland-based collective The Circling Sun deftly explored ensemble jazz with an appealing retro feel. Their...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: September/2025
Gaudencia
After listening to an MC Yallah record it's tempted to conclude that every other rapper in the game is slacking....
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: September/2025
Ordo Virtutum: Jeff Bird Plays Hildegard von Bingen, Volume Two
Jeff Bird is a musical explorer with a keen interest in the ancient music of German mystic Hildegard of Bingen,...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: September/2025
A Tribute to the King of Zydeco
This autumn, Smithsonian Folkways will release a 4-CD box set, Clifton Chenier: King of Louisiana Blues and Zydeco. Comprising 67...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: September/2025
Cast Your Fate To The Wind: The Complete Decca UK Recordings
Marianne Faithfull was a complex lady. She was not just the languid pop star who recorded ‘As Tears Go By’...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: September/2025
Chat Iskandaria
Lebanese singer Nouhad Wadie Haddad, better known simply as Fairuz, falls into that select category of ‘living legends’. After recording...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: September/2025
Neshan
The Ān Ensemble is a nine-piece classical Iranian group led by Sanaz Sattarzadeh, who plays tar. Most of the classic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: September/2025
