Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Seedlings All

Seedlings All

Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

Rough Trade

Rating: ★★★★

This is the folk duo's fifth album, their first of all-original songs and, once again, a maturation and development of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2018

Review of Nadir

Nadir

Daniele di Bonaventura

Tük Music

Rating: ★★★

Everything about this double album is pared down: the white and grey cover, marked by a single tiny dot; the...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: October/2014

Review of DOD

DOD

Agbeko

Agbeko

Rating: ★★

Mancunian Afrobeat: it's a long way from The Haçienda club, but why not indeed? This 11-piece outfit was named one...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2020

Review of Copperdollar: The Back of Beyond

Copperdollar: The Back of Beyond

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Freshly Squeezed Music

Rating: ★★★

This is the work of DJ Marc Stylus, resident disc spinner with the freaky immersive theatre company Copperdollar. Emerging out...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Apr/May/2014

Review of Algarabya

Algarabya

La Banda Morisca

Fol Música

Rating: ★★★

The obvious point of reference for La Banda Morisca (The Moorish Band) is the now-defunct Radio Tarifa, with whom they...

Reviewed by Jo Setters in issue: July/2016

Review of Delirio

Delirio

Lo Ke Ba

Yeti Boy Records

Rating: ★★★★

Lo Ke Ba are a Brighton, UK-based band of musicians whose long-time love of the sounds of Cuba has resulted...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2022

Review of Accordeon: Musette/Swing Paris 1925-1954

Accordeon: Musette/Swing Paris 1925-1954

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Frémeaux & Associés

Rating: ★★★

Yet another hefty chunk of plastic from Frémeaux & Associés, this is the fourth volume of a series of compilations...

Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: March/2011

Review of They Found Asylum in the Sea

They Found Asylum in the Sea

Sea Slugs

Sea Slugs

Rating: ★★★

The seven-piece UK Afrobeat collective Sea Slugs have self-released three albums in four years since they formed in 2013. The...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2017

Review of Causeway Recordings

Causeway Recordings

Sam Shackleton

Top of the World

Sam Shackleton

Rating: ★★★★

Endowed with an endearingly streetwise Scottish brogue; sharply honed clawhammer banjo, guitar and harmonica chops; and a flair for equally...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2022

Review of La Colère de la Boue

La Colère de la Boue

Charkha

Innacor Records

Rating: ★★

Charkha's second outing, La Colère de la Boue (The Anger of Mud), explores our complex, emotional connection to the natural...

Reviewed by Shukri Habib Ali in issue: May/2019

Subscribe from only £7.50

Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.

Subscribe

View the Current
Issue

Take a peek inside the latest issue of Songlines magazine.

Find out more