Reviews
From Ocean’s Floor
Linda Buckley is one of the most eclectic, least categorisable composers Ireland has produced in recent years. As likely to...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
The Living Mountain
Jenny Sturgeon is quite the renaissance woman. The Aberdeenshirebased singer-songwriter has a PhD in seabird ecology and as well as...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels
Naomi Randall is a Cambridge native who debuted in 2013 with an album she shared with Tom Gaskall. Randall continued...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Pandemic Songs
Johnson is an English singersongwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve and always fights the good fight. His forefathers...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Tempo
It’s eight years since the release of Costa Félix’s last disc. Admittedly, his previous album, Fados de Amor, was a...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Murder, and the Birds
David A Jaycock has previously collaborated with Marry Waterson and James Yorkston. This album is a dark, eccentric exploration of...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Hearth
Multiinstrumentalist Mairearad Green’s latest album is inspired by the women and landscapes of Coigach, a peninsula in Wester Ross in...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
If You See a Rook on Its Own, It’s a Crow
Lincolnshire-born singer and fiddle player Elle Osborne first hit the folk scene with her 2000 debut Testimony. This was followed...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
The Wilderness Yet
Taking their name from a line in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ nature poem ‘Inversnaid’, this Sheffield-based trio boast the vocals of...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
