Reviews
Fly Higher
Fly Higher drops shortly after genre-crossing fusionists Soothsayers celebrate 25 years together – and what a way to celebrate! The...
Reviewed by Andrew Taylor-Dawson in issue: December/2025
Horses
Country, and especially 70s country, is at the core of Tobacco City’s sound. The band, fronted by Lexi Goddard and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: October/2025
MUTANT
MUTANT is the perfect name for this shape-shifting album of bulbous beats by Moroccan producer Guedra Guedra (Abdellah M. Hassak)....
Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: October/2025
Aura Reworks
Aura, the 2022 debut album by Hokkaido-born, London-based singer Hatis Noit, was a triumph of highly technical abstract vocal work...
Reviewed by Fred Waine in issue: October/2025
Audacity (Live)
Audacity (Live) offers a spirited world fusion akin to that of the Silk Road Ensemble, of whom percussionist Shanahan belongs....
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: October/2025
Safe, Sensible and Sane
Despite both having won pretty much every award going for the banjo, Steve Martin and Alison Brown have never collaborated...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
Voisinages
Le Vent du Nord have been at the forefront of the Quebecois progressive folk movement for more than two decades,...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: January/2026
Eu Vou Morrer de Amor ou Resistir
Daughter of a thoroughbred fado family, Carminho is also a completely modern artist, weaned on Queen and Caetano Veloso. Talented...
Reviewed by Philip Sweeney in issue: January/2026
Transcendent Phoenix
This is the debut album of Lucina Yue, a player of the Chinese harp, konghou. Mastered by multi-Grammy-winning engineer Alan...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: December/2025
