Reviews
Distrito Federal
Camilo Lara is a busy man – music supervisor for Disney's Coco, founding member of Mexrrissey and Compass, perennial collaborator...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2021
Cuttin' Grass Vol 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions
Multi-time Grammy and Americana music award winner, country music singer-songwriter and actor Sturgill Simpson has fed 20 of his original...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
Silent Voices
Singer-songwriter Ayla Schafer plays spellbinding folk music infused with Latin mystique. Her captivating new album carries a profound message of...
Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: March/2021
Diamond in the Rough
Following 2017's The Things That Matter, 19th Street Band deliver Diamond in the Rough, a nine-track showcase for the core...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: March/2021
In D
After their extraordinary recording of Terry Riley's In C in 2017, the eclectic New York-based collective known as BRM follow...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021
La Giostra
Kërkim (Albanian for ‘Research’) is an Apulian five-piece outfit augmented with a few guests. The result might be wrongly filed...
Reviewed by Ciro De Rosa in issue: March/2021
Stop the Hate
Femi Kuti's last album, 2018's One People One World, was disappointing; it lacked the bite of earlier recordings and sounded...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2021
The Tunis Diaries
This is a sprawling double album from the highly cosmopolitan and experimental Tunisian-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Emel. Hot on the...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2021
Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness
Conceived in isolation during the spring of 2020, this recording is the solo debut by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren (of Širom...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: March/2021
