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Review of Almost Home

Almost Home

Keston Cobblers Club

Tricolour Records

Rating: ★★★

The folk-pop troupe Keston Cobblers Club return here with their third album. Since they released Wildfire in 2015, these Kentish...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of Opus

Opus

Afenginn

Westpark Music 2 CDs

Rating: ★★★

While on tour in Australia, Finnish-born Copenhagen-based Kim Rafael Nyberg, Afenginn's frontman and composer, suffered an accident that left him...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of Recycle

Recycle

Cimbaliband

Fonó Records

Rating: ★★★★

Founded in 2006, Hungary's Cimbaliband are a surefire festival hit. Centred on the larger-than-life cimbalom player Balázs Unger, they are...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of Diffractions

Diffractions

Ollie King

Top of the World

RootBeat Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Diffraction occurs when light spreads out as a result of passing across an edge or through a small space. Ollie...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of What the Hammer

What the Hammer

Noble Jacks

Union Music Store

Rating: ★★

From the moment the opener ‘Gun Hill’ blasted into my ears, this reviewer was transported back to his days of...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of Solomon

Solomon

Calan

Sain Records

Rating: ★★★

This young Welsh five-piece sing in a mixture of Welsh and English, draw on the folklore of Celtic Wales, and...

Reviewed in issue June/2017

Review of Across the Water

Across the Water

Alex Cumming & Nicola Beazley

Haystack Records

Rating: ★★

Having won himself a degree of UK folk-scene success with his group The Teacups, an a capella quartet who have...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Strata

Strata

Siobhan Miller

Top of the World

Songprint Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

It’s been two years since the Scottish singer Siobhan Miller released her first solo album, Flight of Time. By then...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Thalassa

Thalassa

Oluf Dimitri Røe, Family and Guests

Etnisk Musikklubb

Rating: ★★★

As their hybrid names imply, the Røe family are of mixed Norwegian and Greek background – specifically from Trondheim, and...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Neked

Neked

Félix Lajkó

Fonó Records

Rating: ★★★

Over the past five years, Hungarian violinist Félix Lajkó has become surprisingly prolific, having released half a dozen albums –...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

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