Reviews
Radio Sevdah
The Bosnian band, who won Best Group in the 2023 Songlines Music Awards, launch a radio station in the form...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Far From Nowhere
Josienne Clarke | Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker
Clarke’s songs always have a focused, condensed intensity of purpose, a sensitivity and strength that come from a combination of...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Scarrow
For Salt House’s fifth album, Scarrow (meaning ‘faint light’), Ewan MacPherson and Jenny Sturgeon are joined by Northumbrian Anna Hughes...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Eu Vou Morrer de Amor ou Resistir
Daughter of a thoroughbred fado family, Carminho is also a completely modern artist, weaned on Queen and Caetano Veloso. Talented...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
The Strangers’ Share
The Strangers’ Share sits somewhere west of Cornwall, out there where English mingles with Americana. This Cambridge-based folk duo are...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Conflict
Pounding drums, driving electric guitar and forthright vocals – this is rock-folk rather than folk-rock. As Prior states on the...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Songs of Truth
A plucked, multi-string instrument, the bandura is synonymous with Ukraine. For centuries, it was played by blind bards, the kobzari,...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Till att säga hennes namn
Hailing from Uppsala, Sweden, pianist, vocalist and composer Annika Hammer grew up studying classical music, and later became absorbed in...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Oli kerran ryytimaassa…
Pekko Käppi has helped revive the jouhikko, an ancient Finnish bowed lyre, by producing over 10 albums featuring the instrument...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
Minor Gestures
On Minor Gestures, Susannah Stark explores the space between traditional folk and experimental sound art – entering a dialogue with...
Reviewed in issue January/2026
