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Review of A Time to Grow

A Time to Grow

The Henry Girls

The Henry Girls

Rating: ★★★

The Breath’s Ríoghnach Connolly guests on this album from the folk trio from Inishowen in northern Donegal, alongside sisters Karen,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2024

Review of Inner Winter

Inner Winter

Gentle Stranger

PRAH Recordings / Double Dare

Rating: ★★★★

On previous full-lengths Gentle Stranger have lived up to their self-proclaimed ‘post-clown’ cabaret tag by diligently committing themselves to a...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: March/2024

Review of El Terreno

El Terreno

Jacob Gurevitsch

Music for Dreams

Rating: ★★

Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...

Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024

Review of CYRM

CYRM

ØXN

Top of the World

Claddagh Records

Rating: ★★★★★

In January 2021, Lankum’s Radie Peat and drone-folk artist Katie Kim hosted a livestream featuring heavy arrangements of traditional tales...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: March/2024

Review of Yoshitsune

Yoshitsune

PoiL Ueda

Dur et Doux

Rating: ★★★★

Yoshitsune is a concept album that hits like a comic book punch. The psychedelic hard-rock of French group PoiL proves...

Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2024

Review of II

II

Fränder

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★

Is prog folk a genre? Then Swedish band Fränder may be a fit, with their mix of bombastic vocals, heavy...

Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March/2024

Review of Memory Islands

Memory Islands

Ellie Wilson

Bigo and Twigetti

Rating: ★★★★

Ellie Wilson is an explorer of the contemporary classical, folk and electronica worlds, and her new album, Memory Islands, documents...

Reviewed by Buzz Bury in issue: March/2024

Review of Un Hombre de Buenos Aires

Un Hombre de Buenos Aires

Jorge López Ruiz

Altercat

Rating: ★★★★★

Jazz and tango had parallel evolutions, emerging in marginalised areas, gravitating to their respective centres and then going global. When...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2024

Review of Gula Gula

Gula Gula

Mari Boine

By Norse

Rating: ★★★★★

Fragile, urgent and strong, Gula Gula reveals itself within the first 20 seconds of the title-track as one of the...

Reviewed by Fiona Talkington in issue: March/2024

Review of Vrindavan – 1982

Vrindavan – 1982

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar | Zia Mohiuddin Dagar & Pandit Taranath

Black Truffle

Rating: ★★★★★

Presented as a double LP and in digital form this is an outstanding, although previously unheard, recording of the rudra...

Reviewed by Jameela Siddiqi in issue: March/2024

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