Reviews

Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine

Declan O'Rourke

Fear and flight marked Ireland in the 1840s, when a series of famines laid low the island with devastating consequences....

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2018

Alfabeto Runico

Alfabeto Runico

Active since 2003, Alfabeto Runico are the fruit, first and foremost, of the friendship between the three band members. Marta...

Reviewed by Megan Iacobini de fazio in issue: May/2019

Hex

Hò-Rò

Hex is the second album from the group from the Scottish Highlands & Islands that won the Up and Coming...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: July/2018

The Quintessence

Yma Sumac

Some superstars travel at light speed into obscurity. Peruvian singer Yma Sumac died as recently as 2008, aged 86. Her...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: April/2020

Sròmos

James Duncan Mackenzie

Piper and flute player with popular Scottish band Breabach, James Duncan Mackenzie comes from Back on the Isle of Lewis...

Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: May/2018

Feather

Edgelarks

Edgelarks are Devon-based folk duo Hannah Martin and Phillip Henry, and their fifth studio album finds them once again clinging...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sep/2019

Lily

Christy Moore

Christy Moore's first album since 2013's Where I Come From finds the bard of County Kildare in characteristically understated form...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: Aug/Sep/2016

Cymande

Cymande

When Cymande's debut LP was released in 1972 it was largely ignored in their UK homeland. The UK's hip music...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: March/2023

Fly

Balaklava Blues

Marichka and Mark Marczyk's Balaklava Blues was realised on the barricades during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Inspired by the traditional...

Reviewed by Agnieszka Ujma in issue: July/2019

Coxsone's Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Record producer Coxsone Dodd found fame through his legendary Studio One, which gave a big break to such names as...

Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: April/2016