Reviews
The Songs of Edward Capern the Postman Poet
Edward Capern only had four months of schooling. He lived much of his life in the north Devon town of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/2017
Vengeance
Benjamin Biolay has carved himself a niche in the top rank of French popular music, not by genius, but by...
Reviewed by Phil Sweeney in issue: July/2013
Our Island
When the debut Small Island Big Song album was released in 2018, it was rightly hailed as a mini masterpiece....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2022
Panagia
Radiant, original and beautifully constructed, Panagia is Stephan Micus' 20th album, which is an achievement in itself. In its own...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: June/2013
The Gap
It's been five long years since India Electric Co released their debut, The Girl I Left Behind Me. In that...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
La Grande Folie
It's been a long time coming – since school days, one could say – and the speakers positively burst with...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2021
Tyro
What an assured and brilliant debut this is. Rua Macmillan was awarded the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2011
Kodhi: Trevor Warren's Adventures with Ayub Ogada
In the late 80s Ayub Ogada was one of the great ‘discoveries’ of WOMAD. His 1993 album En Mana Kuoyo...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: July/2015
Rough Guide to Spiritual Blues
As the music of gambling dens, bordellos, barrelhouses and anywhere else vice was to be found, the blues swiftly earned...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: October/2020
Mycelium
Mycelium is (apparently) the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike filaments. The threadlike filaments...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2019
