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Review of Awakening

Awakening

Àbáse

Oshu Records & Analogue Foundation x Bridge The Gap

Rating: ★★★★

This, the critical second full-length album of Àbáse (stage name of Hungarian keyboardist and producer Szabolcs Bognár) follows up Laroyê,...

Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: October/2024

Review of Sometime Between Now and Never

Sometime Between Now and Never

Dumai Dunai

Dumai Dunai

Rating: ★★★

Punchy Balkan brass, bubbling dub rhythms and piquant punk guitar riffs jostle joyously on this first offering from Montréal-based Dumai...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: October/2024

Review of Latin-Soul-Rock

Latin-Soul-Rock

Fania All Stars

Craft Latino

Rating: ★★★★

Fifty years after its original release, this long out-of-print album has been remastered and reissued on vinyl and digital form....

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: October/2024

Review of The Free Wild Wind & The Songs of Birds

The Free Wild Wind & The Songs of Birds

The Crooked Fiddle Band

Art as Catharsis

Rating: ★★★★★

Citing Norwegian chamber-prog band Meer and composer Bear McCreary as influences, The Crooked Fiddle Band’s new and lengthily-titled album comprises...

Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: October/2024

Review of Nant

Nant

Poeji

Squama

Rating: ★★★★

At once calming and unsettling, meditative yet intentionally disquieting, this debut work by new collaboration Poeji gets under your skin...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2024

Review of Simple Pleasures

Simple Pleasures

Alison Brown

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★★

Pioneering banjo player, composer, and a key leading lady of bluegrass, Alison Brown wears many...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: October/2024

Review of Kokoro

Kokoro

Sababa 5 & Yurika

Batov Records

Rating: ★★★

Tel Aviv-based quartet Sababa 5’s third full-length album in as many years is, in fact, a compilation of the A...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/September/2024

Review of Araya Lam

Araya Lam

The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band

Zudrangma Records

Rating: ★★★★

Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band (PBMIB) has released its first studio album since 2016’s successful Planet Lam. The new album...

Reviewed by John Clewley in issue: August/September/2024

Review of Out in La La Land

Out in La La Land

Martha Spencer

Music Maker

Rating: ★★★★★

Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: August/September/2024

Review of Erbil

Erbil

Omar Souleyman

Mad Decent

Rating: ★★★

The Syrian singer Omar Souleyman’s fifth studio album, Erbil, is filled with the celebration of life through music. Souleyman performs...

Reviewed by Thérèse Wassily Saba in issue: August/September/2024

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