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Review of For the Night

For the Night

Elephant Sessions

Elephant Sessions

Rating: ★★★★

Cool, hip, vibrant might alone be three words that sum up Elephant Sessions’ forth release, For the Night. Building on...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Fàs

Fàs

Breabach

Breabach Records

Rating: ★★★

Popular Scottish band Breabach return with their first album in four years having used the enforced periods of gigging inactivity...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of While I Sit and Watch This Tree Vol 2

While I Sit and Watch This Tree Vol 2

Lizabett Russo

Last Night From Glasgow

Rating: ★★★★

Born in Romania, but now based in Scotland, Lizabett Russo is a singer-songwriter influenced by Western and Romanian traditional styles,...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Love Hurts

Love Hurts

ENKEL

Nordic Notes

Rating: ★★★★

Finnish folk quartet ENKEL return with their third studio album, a mix of traditional and contemporary numbers. All four women...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of DanSando

DanSando

Luísa Sobral

Framboesalecrim

Rating: ★★★★

For her sixth album, Portuguese singer-songwriter Luísa Sobral wanted to release ‘an ode to life’ – a drop of medicine...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Unquenching Fire

Unquenching Fire

SykesMartin

Dragonfly Roots Records

Rating: ★★★★

As soon as you see the names Miranda Sykes and Hannah Martin together you’re excited. They have two of the...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of No More the Green Hills

No More the Green Hills

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Janice Burns & Jon Doran

Rating: ★★★★

‘She Moves Through the Fair’, ‘As I Roved Out’, ‘Johnny, My Man’… Janice Burns and Jon Doran have chosen some...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Queen of the Whirl

Queen of the Whirl

Eliza Carthy & The Restitution

Top of the World

HemHem Records

Rating: ★★★★★

‘I've given blow jobs on couches to men who don't want me anymore’ – that first line of Eliza Carthy's...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of Clare Sands

Clare Sands

Clare Sands

Clare Sands

Rating: ★★★★

Galway-born multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Clare Sands has been making a name for herself on the Irish and international live circuit...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

Review of The Coast Road

The Coast Road

Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe & Daniel Quayle

Scarleod Records

Rating: ★★★

Boston-born fiddler Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe and bouzouki, guitar and piano player Daniel Quayle from the Isle of Man first began playing...

Reviewed in issue December/2022

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