Reviews
Strictly Roots
If you’re looking for a contemporary reggae album that stays strictly to roots, look elsewhere. Roots has punch, and exists...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: Aug/Sep/2015
Na Estrada
Bel Air de Forro are a new France-based outfit, a trio of Brazilian singer Mariana Caetano, fellow Brazilian Marcelo Costa...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Aug/Sep/2016
Tarantism
With a name reminiscent of The Incredible String Band you might be expecting psychedelic folk played on a variety of...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2023
All Soundings are True
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Garth Knox
All Soundings are True picks up, in part, where Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh's sparse, raw-edged, minimalist 2014 solo offering Music for...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: October/2017
On the Lonesome Plain
As the son of world-renowned Irish folk singer Liam Clancy, the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree for this...
Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: October/2018
Flor di Bila
Cape Verdean musicians tend to go down one of two paths: one of interpretation, set on preserving musical forms from...
Reviewed by Alex Robinson in issue: March/2014
The New Faith
Following his impressive 2020 debut album, Spider Tales (reviewed in October 2020, #161), The New Faith fulfils the promise of...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: November/2022
Singing it All Back Home
Naomi Bedford has a distinctive voice, opening up like a tea rose, with its own colour and fragrance. On her...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019
The Road to Berryville
It’s a rare album that grabs you with every track, but Appalachian quartet Furnace Mountain have managed it with The...
Reviewed by Olivia Haughton in issue: October/2012
