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Review of AVTT/PTTN

AVTT/PTTN

AVTT/PTTN

Ramseur Records

Rating: ★★★

After squirming at the ungainly artist name and title, we can discover this unlikely collaboration between avant-metal singer Mike Patton...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: January/2026

Review of Tropidelicos

Tropidelicos

Gio Chamba

Mixto Records

Rating: ★★★

From Houston, Texas, will you welcome please… guitarist Gio Alejandro and percussionist Coffee Guzman. Add the cheesy synthesised organ of...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: January/2026

Review of A Body Like a Home

A Body Like a Home

Alejandra Cárdenas

Top of the World

Other People

Rating: ★★★★

Following acclaimed collaborations with Laura Robles and Titi Bakorta, Peruvian experimentalist Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop, takes a more solipsistic...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: January/2026

Review of The Jackdaw Sessions

The Jackdaw Sessions

Triptic

Triptic

Rating: ★★★★

Rising from the ashes of the legendary Moishe’s Bagel, Triptic (Greg Lawson on fiddle, Mario Caribé on double bass and...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: January/2026

Review of Tiny Little Light

Tiny Little Light

Mikey Kenney

Top of the World

Penny Fiddle Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Mikey Kenney’s dexterous fiddle playing has long been coveted by folk musicians from across the world. But his songwriting, formerly...

Reviewed by Sophie Parkes in issue: January/2026

Review of Memories of Magic – Mahō no Kioku

Memories of Magic – Mahō no Kioku

Shugorei

4000 Records

Rating: ★★★★

The first few tracks on this album are a red herring. The soft, cinematic tinkling of ‘Alchemy’ and the somewhat...

Reviewed by Rosie Esther Solomon in issue: January/2026

Review of Rumba Africa

Rumba Africa

Syran Mbenza

Top of the World

Hysa Productions

Rating: ★★★★★

Emerging from the Congo, and flourishing even during that painful era when the country was renamed Zaire, African rumba became...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Cavejaz

Cavejaz

Fabiano Do Nascimento | Fabiano do Nascimento

Leaving Records

Rating: ★★★

Nascimento is a Brazilian-American guitarist, who performs on a range of multi-string, variously tuned, nylon string guitars. Cavejaz is split...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Further From the Country

Further From the Country

William Prince

Top of the World

Six Shooter Records

Rating: ★★★★

With a deep, slightly burred voice and deadpan delivery, Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter William Prince has always grounded his art...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: February/March/2026

Review of Poravna

Poravna

Vesna Pisarović

PDV Records

Rating: ★★★★

In the English speaking world Vesna Pisarović might not be an household name, but in the post-Yugoslavian pop music scene...

Reviewed by Francesco Martinelli in issue: February/March/2026

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