Reviews

Shorelines

Nuala Kennedy

Shorelines, the fifth solo album from the Irish multi-instrumentalist is an exciting, inspiring and thoroughly enchanting listen. A collection of...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Sula

Dàimh

Scots supergroup Dàimh return with an album inspired by the landscape and history of the band's Hebridean connection, and especially...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Music for Shepherds and Sultans

Michalis Kouloumis, Tristan Driessens, Miriam Encinas

The ensemble here is violin (Michalis Kouloumis), oud (Tristan Driessens) and frame drums (Miriam Encinas), and the idea is to...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Preludes

Flaer

On this succinct debut, multi-instrumentalist and painter Realf Heygate attempts to map the rural psycho-geography of his experiences growing up...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Omnibus

Geneviève Laloy

All aboard the Omnibus express! Brussels-based musician Geneviève Laloy whisks us along on a sensational journey with her fifth album,...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Lost & Found

Nick Beggs

Nick Beggs has a career extending back to the high point of early 80s New Romantic pop, and the band...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

The Somerset Sessions

Seth Lakeman

Lakeman sings and plays several instruments but his great gift, drawing on the folk tradition, is for narrative. The Somerset...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Striding Out

Brown Boots

London-based fiddle and melodeon duo Martin Clarke and Will Allen pulled on their Brown Boots and recorded their debut, First...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

The Beautiful Road

Rónán Ó Snodaigh & Myles O’Reilly

Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh and fellow musician and film-maker Myles O’Reilly's first outing together on disc, 2021's Tá Go...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

cloud horizons

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

‘The Darkening’ is the Northumbrian term for twilight and the music of cloud horizons is crepuscular. The lyrics of ‘Long...

Reviewed in issue October/2023