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Review of When I’m Called

When I’m Called

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Fat Possum Records

Rating: ★★★★

North Carolinian troubadour Jake Xerxes Fussell has made his name rehoming other people’s words, regaling their dusted-down fables in a...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/September/2024

Review of Birth & Death

Birth & Death

Phil Bancroft & Gyan Singh

Myriad Streams

Rating: ★★★

Scottish jazz saxophonist-composer Phil Bancroft founded the Myriad Streams label as a grass-roots alternative to the overwhelming choices of platforms...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/September/2024

Review of Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free

Bonny Light Horseman

Jagjaguwar

Rating: ★★★

With Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free, Bonny Light Horseman deliver a capacious collection of acoustic Americana. The process...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: August/September/2024

Review of Neynik (Mirror)

Neynik (Mirror)

Eléonore Fourniau

Alvas Production

Rating: ★★★★

Listening to Neynik, if there is one thing that we would not suspect, it is that Eléonore is French… This...

Reviewed by Anne Girard Esposito in issue: August/September/2024

Review of The Handover

The Handover

The Handover

Sublime Frequencies

Rating: ★★★★★

The Handover are a trio of Aly Eissa, Ayman Asfour and Jonas Cambien, their eponymous debut consisting of two epic...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: August/September/2024

Review of From the Ground

From the Ground

Laura-Beth Salter & Ali Hutton

FTG Records

Rating: ★★★★

Nature now can be attributed as a band member on albums and songs, and it should see royalties pour down...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2024

Review of Ukouk

Ukouk

Marewrew

Pingipung

Rating: ★★★★

Ukouk (round-singing) celebrates over a decade of Marewrew’s entrancing Ainu songs, with tonkori collaboration from Oki Kano on several tracks....

Reviewed by Georgette Nummelin in issue: July/2024

Review of Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah

Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah

Ziad Rahbani

wewantsounds

Rating: ★★★★

Ziad Rahbani is the son of Lebanese icon Fairuz and famed composer Assi Rahbani and a living legend in Lebanon,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024

Review of All You Need is Death

All You Need is Death

Ian Lynch

Invada Records

Rating: ★★★★

All You Need is Death is the first cinematic soundtrack from Lankum’s Ian Lynch. The film of the same name...

Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: July/2024

Review of Dala Toni

Dala Toni

Ajate

Top of the World

180G

Rating: ★★★★

Dala Toni is the third album to be released by the Japanese-Afrobeat fusion collective Ajate. Led since 2009 by Junichiro...

Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: July/2024

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