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Review of The Complete Island Recordings

The Complete Island Recordings

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Universal

Rating: ★★★★★

Ask musicians from all corners of the globe to name a hero or inspirational figure, and it's a fair bet...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Review of So Familiar

So Familiar

Steve Martin & Edie Brickell

Rounder

Rating: ★★★

So Familiar is the follow-up to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's 2013 debut duo album, Love has Come for You....

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Review of Woody Pines

Woody Pines

Woody Pines

Muddy Roots Music

Rating: ★★★

New Hampshire-born Woody Pines mines the American folk, ragtime, country blues, hillbilly and proto-rock’n’roll songbooks: the songs were spilling out...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Review of The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters

The Rough Guide to the Blues Songsters

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Music Network

Rating: ★★★★

The African-American songster tradition was for many years regarded as a poor relation of the Delta blues: its repertoire of...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Review of New York Boogaloo

New York Boogaloo

Spanglish Fly

Chaco World Music

Rating: ★★★

Boogaloo is the infectious Latin-soul dance craze of the late 60s and early 70s that brought the world ‘I Like...

Reviewed in issue December/2015

Review of Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83

Rastafari: The Dreads Enter Babylon 1955-83

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Soul Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★★

A dreadlocked mane, popularised eternally by Bob Marley, is an iconic image for Jamaican music. But would Rastafari have become...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Amor y Muerte

Amor y Muerte

Voodoo Love Orchestra

Movimientos Records

Rating: ★★

This CD comes with a bright cover illustration and is full of roaring horns and fiery percussion. But this Brighton-based...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Two Universes

Two Universes

Feufollet

30 Tigers

Rating: ★★★★

Feufollet started out as a Cajun children's band before maturing into one of the most exciting young bands in the...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Little Hinges

Little Hinges

Qristina & Quinn Bachand

Beacon Ridge Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Structured in two parts, Qristina and Quinn Bachand's third album finds the Canadian siblings on a mission to broaden the...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

Review of Secret Victory

Secret Victory

The East Pointers

East Pointers Records

Rating: ★★★

There was an impressive self-titled EP last year from this Canadian power-folk trio but their live-sounding, full-length album debut is...

Reviewed in issue November/2015

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