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Review of Some Day

Some Day

Dt/Ig

Slow and Steady Music

Rating: ★★★

Dt/Ig is an instrumental duo formed by Drew Taubenfeld, a multi-instrumentalist and music director who has collaborated with Dwight Yoakam,...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2024

Review of Y’Y

Y’Y

Amaro Freitas

Top of the World

Psychic Hotline

Rating: ★★★★★

Those who have been to the Amazon find it deeply affecting, coming away with a desire to contribute in some...

Reviewed by Andy Cumming in issue: March/2024

Review of The Colour of Amber

The Colour of Amber

Nick Hart & Tom Moore

Slow Worm Records

Rating: ★★★★

Following his terrific Nick Hart Sings… series, award-winning folk singer, musician and steward of English folk song Hart returns in...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: March/2024

Review of Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Rating: ★★★

Hirondelle is an unlikely cohort of Northumbrian, Scottish and Provençal musicians with a just as improbable fascination for the Occitan...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2024

Review of The King of Misery

The King of Misery

Daudi Matsiko

Daudi Matsiko

Rating: ★★★★

Daudi Matsiko, a British-Ugandan singer-songwriter, delivers a debut album from a vulnerable chapter in his life, that expands what is...

Reviewed by Marie Bashiru in issue: March/2024

Review of All That Remained

All That Remained

Lucidvox

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

If there was any naiveté on show in Lucidvox’s last album, We Are, it has surely been worn away by...

Reviewed by Simon Cross in issue: March/2024

Review of Acoustic Live

Acoustic Live

Kultur Shock

Old Age Recording Co

Rating: ★★★★

A mainstay of Seattle’s indie scene in the early 2000s, Balkan punk rockers Kultur Shock are back with a surprising...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March/2024

Review of Tigre Qui Pleure

Tigre Qui Pleure

El Gato Negro

Top of the World

X-Ray Production / Que Buen Momento

Rating: ★★★★

El Gato Negro is as far from Edgar Allan Poe’s creepy Black Cat as you could get. Hiding behind the...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: March/2024

Review of Irakere

Irakere

Grupo Irakere

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

Grupo Irakere, as the Cuban all-star outfit was known back in 1976 when this second in Mr Bongo’s Cuban Classics...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: April/2024

Review of All is Forgiven

All is Forgiven

Lilli Lewis

Righteous Babe

Rating: ★★★★

Lilli Lewis has been labelled a ‘folk rock diva’, but that only describes part of her style. Based in New...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024

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