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Review of Mỹ Lai

Mỹ Lai

Kronos Quartet, Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, Rinde Eckert

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Rating: ★★

The Apocalypse Now image on the album cover and the title Mỹ Lai, the name of a terrible massacre of...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of White Power Outage Vol 2

White Power Outage Vol 2

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Rating: ★★★

The revolution will not be televised, nor will it be terribly organised if the Free Radicals are in charge. Active...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of KG Westman & Zaعfaran

KG Westman & Zaعfaran

KG Westman & Zaعfaran

Top of the World

Root Rock Records

Rating: ★★★★★

This unlikely mash-up of music and musicians from India, Egypt and Sweden is, perhaps against the odds, a resounding success....

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Recalibrate

Recalibrate

Eccodek

Big Mind/Six Degrees

Rating: ★★★

From the first beats of ‘I Wanna Talk to You’, the opening track of Eccodek’s fifth studio album Recalibrate, you...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Avalanche Kaito

Avalanche Kaito

Avalanche Kaito

Top of the World

Glitterbeat Records

Rating: ★★★★

When the first track opens with ominous flat thrums of a bass guitar that make way for dissonant synth tones,...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Beyond the Pale

Beyond the Pale

Bush Gothic

Fydle Records

Rating: ★★★★

Gather around the campfire… Bush Gothic have 12 tracks’ worth of tales to tell. Of convicts and cattle wranglers, miners...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Sun God

Sun God

Sunday Driver

Trapped Animal

Rating: ★★

British fusion band Sunday Driver’s latest release is their first since the EP Flo in 2014. While Flo was a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2022

Review of Indo-Arabic Variations

Indo-Arabic Variations

Baligh Hamdi & Magid Khan

Altercat

Rating: ★★★

As this 1980 album has been increasing in value over the years (original copies appear to go for around £50...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Gabba

Gabba

Gabba

Drengestua Records

Rating: ★★★★

A fascinating, self-titled debut here from Norwegian band Gabba, whose music has been garnering extremely positive reviews in their native...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

Review of Lovers Rock: The Soulful Sound of Romantic Reggae

Lovers Rock: The Soulful Sound of Romantic Reggae

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Trojan Records

Rating: ★★★

An episode of Steve McQueen’s acclaimed BBC television series Small Axe stimulated renewed interest in lover’s rock, the Black British...

Reviewed in issue July/2022

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