Reviews
Forever is 4 You
This could just as well be by a Malawi Mouse Boy, rather than Boys, as the music is so minimalist...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: May/2016
Digital Kabar
Since the 1990s, maloya – the quasi-religious, deeply political Creole music of La Réunion that was famously banned by the...
Reviewed by Tim Clarke-Romain in issue: November/2019
Imam Baildi
This is a great album, with a great idea behind it: take recordings of Greek popular songs of the 40s...
Reviewed by Maria Lord in issue: July/2010
The Stray Birds
The music of The Stray Birds is derived from the soft, delicate underbelly of the traditional American string band. The...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Apr/May/2013
The Burial of Kojo
Blitz the Ambassador is a Ghanaian American visual artist, MC and bandleader with a clutch of interesting, forward-looking albums under...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2019
Olagón
Inspired by the ancient Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, the story being recast by poet Paul Muldoon as a caustic,...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: April/2018
While You Were Slumbering
Expert fiddler and banjoist and scholar of southern Appalachian music, Tennessee native Joseph Decosimo bears the legacy of the Cumberland...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: January/February/2023
No Summer
Welcome to the Radie Peat academy of drone singing, for the powerful example of Lankum and how they have turned...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Aug/Sept/2020
Canzoni della Cupa
Vinicio Capossela's new double album contains songs that have emerged slowly over a decade. These 23 tracks are divided into...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: October/2017
The Straits
This compilation soundtrack for a new Australian television crime series set in the area between the tropical Queensland town of...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: June/2012
