Reviews

Frenzy of the Meeting

Breabach

The sixth album from popular Scottish quintet Breabach follows two years of international touring during which they won Best Folk...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Teiliwr: Tailor

Three Legg'd Mare

An Aberystwyth-based trio brought together in 2014 by, so they say, a common interest in ‘old songs of madness, love,...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Hillevi

Emma Ahlberg Ek

Concept albums are a rare thing in folk music but Hillevi is a fine example; it is the result of...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Tóg É Go Bog É

Kíla

Newly reissued on double-vinyl, Tóg É Go Bog É (Take it Easy) is Kíla's 1997 sophomore offering. Then already well-established...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Allt

Julie Fowlis, Éamon Doorley, Zoë Conway & John Mc Intyre

This feels like something of a Gaelic supergroup album. It brings together two power couples – Hebridean singer and whistles...

Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2019

Times from Times Fall

Fara

This Orkney born and bred quartet – fiddlers Kristan Harvey, Jeana Leslie and Catriona Price, alongside pianist Jennifer Austin –...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Dalinda

Dalinda

The a capella group Dalinda is made up of three Hungarian singers – Johanna Orbán, Julianna Paár and Sára Timár....

Reviewed in issue December/2018

The Well Worn Path

Seth Lakeman

This ninth solo album from the West Country fiddler and singer-songwriter might well be his equivalent of Fairport Convention's Liege...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Avalanche

Ímar

Ímar, a quintet who met on Glasgow's trad music scene, form an alliance of Scottish, Irish and Manx idioms. Their...

Reviewed in issue December/2018

Ordinary Giants: A Life & Times 1918-2018

Robb Johnson

Robb Johnson is a remarkable singer-songwriter who won acclaim with 1997's Gentle Men, an album that used his grandfathers' lives...

Reviewed in issue December/2018