Reviews
Esperanto
Dimitris Mystakidis’ avowed mission is to restore acoustic folk guitar to its rightful place in Greek popular music, long dominated...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Overnight
The award-winning duo's first album for Rough Trade is their finest work to date, and certainly among the best folk...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Instar
Ecology, politics, and the rigours and inequities of the present framed by the struggles and injustices of the past are...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Flit
Martin Green is best known as the accordion and electronica genius from Lau, but he's also a bravely experimental soloist....
Reviewed in issue November/2016
The Albino Peacock
With a fun mix of clarinets, bouzouki, kaval, violins, drums, bass, electric guitar, autoharp, dulcimer and recorders, Birmingham-based Bonfire Radicals...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
The Beast Below
There is a tinkling delicacy to the music of Apple of My Eye. Comprised of musicians with a strong theatrical...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
NEWiD
This sixth album from the traditional Welsh outfit also sees the unveiling of a six-piece line-up and a new singer....
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Maletak
Being a ‘master of the diatonic accordion’ doesn’t sound sexy, but veteran Basque composer and bandleader Kepa Junkera makes his...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
Ancoradouro
It is no minor achievement to have secured the blessing of Fausto Bordalo Dias. He is a key figure in...
Reviewed in issue November/2016
