The seven songs on this third studio album from Burd Ellen, the Glasgow-based project featuring Debbie Armour and Gayle Brogan,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: January/February/2023
Kim Carnie wrote most of this debut album in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, and she has captured the unhurried peacefulness of...
Reviewed by Rob Adams in issue: October/2022
Boogaloo is the infectious Latin-soul dance craze of the late 60s and early 70s that brought the world ‘I Like...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: December/2015
There's no shortage of folk compilations out there – be they strange folk, nu-folk, psych-folk or angry folk. When I...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2013
As part of Rhiannon Giddens’ 2019 project Our Native Daughters, the Tennessee singer-songwriter Amythyst Kiah earned a Grammy nomination for...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2021
You will find a lot written of Tom Zé, calling him everything from a ‘cultural cannibal’ to a ‘revolutionary anarchist,’...
Reviewed by Brian Taylor in issue: April/2019
The first Toots and the Maytals release in over ten years is a big deal for reggae enthusiasts. The 77-year-old...
Reviewed by Clyde Macfarlane in issue: October/2020
Listening to these remastered selections from the huge body of work that Carlos Gardel compiled before his premature death at...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2015
The folk quartet Spiro rework English dance tunes under the aegis of minimalism and systems music; these are tunes that...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2015
Here is another fabulously funky slice of history from Swiss label Bongo Joe; Amazigh Freedom Rock is a compilation from...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2023
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