Reviews
HOPE!!
In a prolific burst between 2015 and 2022, Angélique Kidjo released an album with a symphony orchestra, a reimagining of...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: May/2026
Blood Sucking Maniacs
In 1965, a young man from Wichita, Kansas, named Terry Allen performed ‘Red Bird’, the first song he ever wrote,...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
Grandpa’s Mill
Growing up in Albany, Kentucky, a small town (pop. ~2,000) located on the central Tennessee border, Colton Bowlin worked six...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
Heavy Water
Heavy Water is music-making at its most sublimely imagined and laudably purposed. It’s the first album by Magic Tuber Stringband...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: May/2026
Red Sun Rising
Yorkshire-based singer-songwriter Chris Brain has produced a steady stream of albums over the past four years. I wonder if he’s...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: May/2026
Loïc Bléjean & Tad Sargent
The musicians of Brittany and Ireland have long held each other in high musical esteem and nowhere is this admiration...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: April/2017
Yobadi
How can you justify subjecting the raw power of traditional Moroccan Gnawa music to a pernickety, pimple-picking, over-intellectualised version of...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2011
Etike
Jeannot Bel is a UK-based Congolese guitarist who is a regular member of Kanda Bongo Man’s touring band. He recently...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: Jan/Feb/2013
White Power Outage Vol 2
The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: August/September/2022
The Gnawa Caravan: Salt
London-based gimbri master and Gnawa evangelist Simo Lagnawi is becoming a prolific and reliable recording artist, releasing Gnawa-themed albums with...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: April/2016
