Reviews
Beginner’s Guide to the Caribbean
In a compilation¬exhausted market, do we need yet another Caribbean greatest hits set? The short answer would be no, unless...
Reviewed by Charles De Ledesma in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
Revival
Bellowhead's Revival begins, typically, with a couple of sea shanties, ‘Let Her Run’ and ‘Roll Alabama’. The calls and responses...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Aug/Sep/2014
Frontrunner
Frontrunner is Anglo-Hungarian Rakoczy’s horse-themed debut. From pagan creatures to racehorses, equine figures run through the album, tying together a...
Reviewed by Celeste Cantor-Stephens in issue: December/2020
Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour
Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker recently performed their new album in full in London, with a chamber ensemble and guests...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2015
Salida de Emergencia
Women have always been central to tango – as whores, drunks, Oedipal mothers, girlfriends and social climbers. On the performing...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2012
Timbuktu
During her first spell on World Circuit, Oumou Sangaré made some of the finest albums to come out of West...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2022
Syrian Dreams
‘This album is my personal journey through the six years of war in Syria,' Youssef writes of her debut album....
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: Jan/Feb/2018
The Strange One
A fiery fuzz guitar solo, reggaeton bridge, vocals switching between Spanish and English, searing violins and a constant hip-hop/cumbia beat...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2020
Muunduja
Many years ago, Songlines used to feature quotations from some of the more preposterous press releases that arrive in the...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: November/2018
At the Stringsmith's Forge
The traditional reels, jigs and strathspeys from Scotland, Ireland and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia that informed Skyhook's first...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: Nov/Dec/2014
