Reviews
All About the Bones
American folk and blues singer Chris Smither marks his upcoming 80th birthday with All About the Bones, a moody and...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2024
My Black Country: The Songs of Alice Randall
Anyone who enjoyed the 2019 Smithsonian Folkways album Songs of Our Native Daughters is going to love My Black Country....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2024
Tu Gulî
Olcay Bayir is a British/Kurdish-Alevi singer-songwriter who sings in Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian, and Tu Gulî is her third album,...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: June/2024
Find Your Flame
When artists pile on the special guests, sometimes you wish they wouldn’t. However, this nine-piece powerhouse from Leeds have managed...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2024
Souvenirs
The world lost a unique composer with the passing of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru at the age of 99 last year....
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: April/2024
Mawja
The Sahrawi refugee camps are situated out in the deserts of southern Algeria, and are home to the victims of...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: April/2024
Desassossego
Desassossego (Restlessness) is the second album by Matilde Cid, a fado singer-songwriter from Estremoz, east of Lisbon. Puro, Cid’s first...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: April/2024
Amor Fati
Fatima Szalay is a young Hungarian singer who trained at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and this is her debut...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: April/2024
Habitat
Habitat is the fourth album by C’Mon Tigre, the enigmatic world music collective that has been defying boundaries of genre...
Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: April/2024
