Reviews
The Macalla Suite
Composed to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, Michael Rooney’s The Macalla Suite is a compendium of folk...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
An Dà Là – The Two Days
After three years of near-constant touring, this six-piece band’s third album finds Ewen Henderson taking over lead vocals from now-departed...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
20sth
Perhaps the first thing to point out – although it’s not immediately noticeable on first listen – is that this...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Making Waves
Luke Daniels’ Revolve and Rotate EP featured the sounds of the extraordinary Polyphon, a sort of vaudevillian organic-analogue synth –...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Nuestras Vivencias
Echoes of Spain are an Anglo-Spanish flamenco guitar duo who have just self-produced their first album. They are both more...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
A World of Hope
This double album brings together tracks donated in support of the charity Postcards for Peace – an international organisation that...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
The Janus Game
Two stalwarts of the English folk scene come together on The Janus Game. The rousing title-track sets the scene with...
Reviewed in issue April/2017
So Much to Defend
As a certain Nobel Prize-winning songwriter once wrote, ‘people are crazy, times are strange’ and that has rarely been so...
Reviewed in issue April/2017
Stick in the Wheel Present From Here: English Folk Field Recordings
‘Field Recordings’ carries with it the exciting suggestion that Stick in the Wheel have sought out unheard music performed by...
Reviewed in issue April/2017
After All These Years
Lakeman is a familiar name: there's Seth, Sean and Sam, all of them famous musicians. Geoff is their father and,...
Reviewed in issue April/2017
