Reviews Search | Songlines

Reviews

Review of Palaces

Palaces

Electric Vocuhila

Capsul Records

Rating: ★★★

Electric Vocuhila, a French quartet founded ten years ago in Berlin as part of a musicians’ co-operative, display an impressive...

Reviewed by Julia in issue: June/2020

Review of Molly Tigre

Molly Tigre

Molly Tigre

Very Special Recordings CASSETTE 6 DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★★

This Brooklyn quintet's eponymously named debut (available digitally and on cassette) features a twin saxophone front-line, with Mitch Marcus and...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: Aug/Sep/2018

Review of Estrellas

Estrellas

Guts

Top of the World

Heavenly Sweetness

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a glorious album that was never supposed to happen. Fabrice Henri, the French hip-hop producer better known as...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2023

Review of Byzaanchy

Byzaanchy

Choduraa Tumat

Pan Records

Rating: ★★★★

Choduraa Tumat is one of Tyva’s finest female khöömeizhi (master throat singers), being leader of the group Tyva Kyzy, but...

Reviewed by Michael Ormiston in issue: March/2022

Review of Life in a Day OST

Life in a Day OST

VARIOUS ARTISTS

EMI Records

Rating: ★★

Soundtracks are funny old things. When they feature alongside a film, they make sense – they’re doing precisely what they’re...

Reviewed by Ed Stocker in issue: March/2012

Review of Chantent en Français

Chantent en Français

17 Hippies

Hipster Records

Rating: ★★★

Chantent en Français starts with a jaunty bout of string-picking, strumming, a squeeze of accordion, a parting curtain of strings...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2013

Review of Flamenco

Flamenco

Diana Navarro

Warner

Rating: ★★★

By embracing the Spanish folk song form copla and merging influences from pop, Diana Navarro joined a new wave of...

Reviewed by Russell Parton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012

Review of African Metropolitan Music

African Metropolitan Music

VARIOUS ARTISTS

musicforarchitecture

Rating: ★★★★

Over the past decade, the celebrated architect David Adjaye has visited every African country, photographing the architecture of a full...

Reviewed by Nige Tassell in issue: July/2012

Review of Mystic Dance

Mystic Dance

Amira Kheir

Top of the World

Sterns Music

Rating: ★★★★★

The third album from the London-based Sudanese-Italian singer Amira Kheir is a tour de force that builds and expands on...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: December/2018

Review of Sanikoya

Sanikoya

Debademba

Dankama

Rating: ★★★★

This is the third studio album from Malian griot singer Mohamed Diaby (son of Ivorian griotte Coumba Kouyaté) and acoustic...

Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2018

Subscribe from only £7.50

Start your journey and discover the very best music from around the world.

Subscribe

View the Current
Issue

Take a peek inside the latest issue of Songlines magazine.

Find out more