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Review of A Body Like a Home

A Body Like a Home

Alejandra Cárdenas

Top of the World

Other People

Rating: ★★★★

Following acclaimed collaborations with Laura Robles and Titi Bakorta, Peruvian experimentalist Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop, takes a more solipsistic...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956–1963

Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956–1963

Bob Dylan

Columbia Legacy

Rating: ★★★★★

Bob Dylan would go on to reinvent himself many times, but there remains something iconic about his first iteration as...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of América Zureta

América Zureta

Ian Lasserre

Ajabu!

Rating: ★★★

Hailing from the north-east of Brazil, singer-songwriter Ian Lasserre’s songs of protest are couched in the gentlest of voices. In...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of Diamond Grove

Diamond Grove

Weirs

Dear Life Records

Rating: ★★★

Cicadas chitter. A banjo twangs like the opening to a raga. A fiddle flickers. A cow moans. Wait, was that...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of Laments

Laments

Laurel Premo

Laurel Premo

Rating: ★★★★★

Independent vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and somatic healer Laurel Premo offers a quietly stirring catharsis in Laments, a grief work in four...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of To Heart, To Earth

To Heart, To Earth

The Far Sound

Centripetal Force

Rating: ★★★

Rick Pedrosa is a multi-instrumentalist from Portland, Oregon, devoted to the sweep and the slide, the clank and the shiver....

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of Rise Up

Rise Up

Cha Wa

UPT Music/Gallatin Records

Rating: ★★★

Combine the deeply influential legacy of marching brass bands in New Orleans with the equally significant historical relationship between African-Americans...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of La Huella de las Cuerdas

La Huella de las Cuerdas

Berta Rojas

Berta Rojas

Rating: ★★★★

Classical guitarist Berta Rojas presents a high-concept multimedia project that explores the history of the guitar across Latin America. Over...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of Far Driven Sun

Far Driven Sun

Buck Curran

Obsolete Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Bergamo-based Buck Curran spent ages tracking down a Stefan Sobell guitar he sold years back and has celebrated the reunion...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

Review of Weights & Measures

Weights & Measures

Darrin Hacquard

Like You Mean It

Rating: ★★★

If you walked into a bar or a hall anywhere in the US and found that Darrin Hacquard and his...

Reviewed in issue January/2026

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