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Review of Problemas

Problemas

Grupo Fantasma

Top of the World

Blue Corn Music

Rating: ★★★★

For their first studio album since 2010's Grammy-winning El Existential, this Austin nine-piece have abandoned their DIY approach and contracted...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Rumba con Flores

Rumba con Flores

Eliane Correa & En el Aire Project

Cezanne Producciones

Rating: ★★★

This young, classically trained pianist, composer and arranger shares her time between London, Barcelona and Havana, and her creative energies...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Caieira

Caieira

Tamy

Zip Records

Rating: ★★

Perhaps record label marketing departments know better, but the generic blandness of cover shots such as the one gracing this...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of In the Magic Hour

In the Magic Hour

Aoife O’Donovan

Yep Roc Records

Rating: ★★★★

Regular Songlines readers will need little introduction to Massachusetts-born singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan. Her exploits as soloist and collaborator with the...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Frankie and the No-Go Road

Frankie and the No-Go Road

Rita Hosking

Rita Hosking

Rating: ★★★

A concept album that follows the trials and tribulations of an everyman hero named Frankie in his struggles through life,...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Sun Might Shine on Me

Sun Might Shine on Me

Grant Dermody

Grant Dermody

Rating: ★★★

To call Seattle's white harmonica master a bluesman would only tell you part of the story. For sure, he understands...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Acabou Chorare

Acabou Chorare

Novos Baianos

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

Originally released on Som Livre in 1972, Acabou Chorare was recently voted the Best Brazilian Album Ever in a Rolling...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Arise

Arise

The Abyssinians

Front Line

Rating: ★★★★

Jamaican vocal trio The Abyssinians became legends with their seminal 1976 album Satta Massagana, which made an Afrocentric statement via...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Coffee Creek

Coffee Creek

Slocan Ramblers

SloMusic

Rating: ★★★★

What does modern bluegrass sound like? It sounds like The Slocan Ramblers – who sound a lot like the great...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Review of Tangled Country

Tangled Country

The Honey Dewdrops

Honey Dewdrops

Rating: ★★★

Fans of the softer, gentler end of the Americana spectrum will be drawn to Tangled Country, the fourth album by...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

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