Reviews

Buile

Roehind

The brainchild of LA-based indie artist Alys Hoy (aka Roehind), Buile fuses Celtic traditional songs from across Europe with downtempo...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

We Know by the Moon

The Furrow Collective

The Anglo-Scottish quartet celebrate a decade of music making with their fourth album, We Know by the Moon. Emily Portman,...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Roots 2

Show of Hands

The sense of community created by Devon folk duo Show of Hands is perhaps their greatest achievement. It begins on...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Roundelay

Otvaal

Moscow-born duo Otvaal (aka Dmitry Gudnichev and Vlad Stepanov) are a curious addition to the global music scene. Roundelay is...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

This is What I Want to Say

Martyn Joseph

Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Move into the Luminous

Makushin

The cool, ambient depth charges embedded across Move into the Luminous come from prolific double bassist Jon Thorne (Lamb, Yorkston...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Na Beanna Beola

Fiachra O’Regan

It’s a been a long wait for Fiachra O’Regan’s solo follow-up to his 2008 debut, Aisling Gheal. The time in...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Glad Christmas Comes

Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden

‘Glad Christmas comes’ is the opening line from ‘December’ in John Clare’s poem The Shepherd’s Calendar. Carthy and Boden sing...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Torem

Nytt Land | NYTT Land

Shamanic couple Natasha ‘Baba Yaga’ and Anatoly Pakhalenko bring you another haunting Siberian offering with Torem. It’s an invitation to...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024

Talende Strenger/Kertovat Kielet

Ragnhild Knudsen & Pauliina Syrjälä

Look no further than this Norwegian/Finnish collaboration for a textbook example of how musicians and producers should convey their music...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2024