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Review of Restitute

Restitute

Eliza Carthy

Top of the World

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2016, the Wayward Band, the ensemble of gifted musicians Eliza Carthy first assembled in 2013, suffered what she describes...

Reviewed by Julian May in issue: July/2019

Review of Enclosure

Enclosure

The Askew Sisters

Oakmere Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Askews have released some of the most striking folk music of recent years, from Hazel's involvement in Lady Maisery...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019

Review of To the Mother of Gods

To the Mother of Gods

Anatolian Weapons & Seirios Savvaidis

Beats in Space VINYL & DIGITAL ONLY

Rating: ★★★

Anatolian Weapons is a guise of DJ electronicist Aggelos Baltas, and Seirios Savvaidis is a singer-songwriter who is much younger...

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2019

Review of Handful of Earth

Handful of Earth

Dick Gaughan

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

When this album was released in November 1981, the year had already seen riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side,...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: July/2019

Review of The Healing

The Healing

BCUC

Top of the World

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★★

BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) return with an album of ‘music for the people, by the people, with the people.’...

Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: July/2019

Review of Cali

Cali

Pixvae

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★

As much as I try, I can't get on with Pixvae. Cali is their second album and it very much...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2019

Review of Tim O'Brien Band

Tim O'Brien Band

Tim O'Brien

Top of the World

Howdy Skies

Rating: ★★★★

Both traditionalists and progressively oriented bluegrass fans will cotton to Tim O'Brien's new album. Featuring a seasoned, stripped down, ready-to-kick-tail...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: July/2019

Review of Ashlar

Ashlar

Còig

Còig Music

Rating: ★★★

Còig are a powerhouse, multiple award-winning quartet from Cape Breton, not to be confused with Northern Ireland's Cúig. They are...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: July/2019

Review of Collaborations: Volume One

Collaborations: Volume One

Hackney Colliery Band

Veki Records

Rating: ★★★

Ten years on from their inception, Hackney Colliery Band have embarked on an ambitious collaborative journey, with this record setting...

Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: July/2019

Review of Weightless

Weightless

Teotima

First Word Records

Rating: ★★★

Teotima's second album, released on eclectic label First Word Records, sees the group slim down to a ready-to-tour ensemble. Greg...

Reviewed by Julia Baker in issue: July/2019

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