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Review of All My Friends

All My Friends

Aoife O’Donovan

Top of the World

Yep Roc Records

Rating: ★★★★

A little more than a century after the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution secured American women the right to...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Way Highly

Way Highly

Brad Fielder

Brad Fielder

Rating: ★★★

A salty dog of an album, Oklahoma roots musician and one-man band Brad Fielder’s new album (or long-ish EP), Way...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Needlefall

Needlefall

Magic Tuber Stringband

Thrill Jockey

Rating: ★★★★

The music on Needlefall is borne of one region, but two worlds. It finds Durham, North Carolina guitar- and-fiddle duo...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Little Sun

Little Sun

Charlie Parr

Smithsonian Folkways

Rating: ★★★★★

Austin, Minnesota’s Charlie Parr is leaving behind the country-blues derivations of his earliest works. For all their ramshackle charms, albums...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Algo-Ritmo: Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004-2024

Algo-Ritmo: Mexican Institute of Sound Hits 2004-2024

Mexican Institute of Sound

Soy Sauce

Rating: ★★★★

This compilation of 24 songs spans the two-decade career of Mexican Institute of Sound, aka Camilo Lara. Named as one...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of La Negra – Tribute to Mercedes Sosa

La Negra – Tribute to Mercedes Sosa

Claudia Meyer

Kobbiprod Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Claudia Meyer’s fourth solo album is a tribute to Argentinian folk singer Mercedes Sosa, affectionately known as ‘La Negra’. Meyer’s...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Sun Without the Heat

Sun Without the Heat

Leyla McCalla

Top of the World

ANTI-

Rating: ★★★★

New Orleans-based Leyla McCalla is known for making moving, socially conscious music that takes in all her various influences, from...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Mirantes Emocionais

Mirantes Emocionais

Arthur Melo

Wonderfulsound

Rating: ★★★★

Melo, a young Brazilian composer, guitarist and singer, with his band O Ministério da Consciência, presents his take on not...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Diamond Days

Diamond Days

Brooks Williams

Red Guitar Blue Music

Rating: ★★★

Diamond Days may be his first solo album in four years but Brooks Williams is no slouch. Since 2020’s Work...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Haz

Haz

La Yegros

X-Ray Production

Rating: ★★★★★

Buenos Aires native Mariana Yegros absorbed from her parents a love of traditional cumbia and chamamé, a folk music distinctive...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

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