Reviews
Shadow Child
This is both a concept album and a conception album, featuring a nine-song cycle composed by Canadian singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: June/2026
vipérine
This delightfully strange set comes from US-born Marseille resident Turner Williams Jr., a string player from the Alabama surrealist scene...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2026
Next Act
The task this North Carolina sextet sets itself here is both to reaffirm their bluegrass roots and to move the...
Reviewed by Paul Slade in issue: June/2026
Palagoma
This is a major improvement on ODD OKODDO’s 2024 album Negore. The duo invites veteran Kenyan singer Ogoya Nengo to...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: June/2026
Monk Con Clave
On his 1989 Afro-Latin tribute album to jazz giant Thelonious Monk, Rumba para Monk, trumpeter Jerry Gonzáles played it largely...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2026
The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music Vol. 1
For anyone with an interest in the development of 20th-century American music and counterculture, Harry Smith needs little introduction. A...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2026
Ring-A-Bellin’
German-born Nashville resident Thomm Jutz’s new solo album is a big affair, with 18 songs spanning over an hour. However,...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2026
Wellspring
Readers familiar with recent K-Music festivals will appreciate the remarkable sounds emanating from Korea. Kim, now based in Brooklyn, adds...
Reviewed by Keith Howard in issue: June/2026
OUTTANATIONAL
Margate-based five-piece Pigeon have been building a reputation – 6Music playlists, Glastonbury slots and a string of well-received EPs –...
Reviewed by Alexandra Petropoulos in issue: June/2026
El espacio del Tiempo
An exquisite, charming and thoughtful set by two sisters from Argentina. Laura and Gianna Caronni were brought up studying classical...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2026
