Reviews
Con Sentimiento
Born in just 2002 in Güines (just south of Havana), Noslen Noel has already made a name for himself as...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man
JP Harris’ Dreadful Wind & Rain
With Don’t You Marry No Railroad Man Alabama-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter-guitarist and occasional banjo luthier Joshua Press (JP) Harris celebrates a...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Acid Folk
Like other acid folk bands, Yonder Boys sound like they stepped back into the future. A polyglot trio based in...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Places of Consequence
Cameron Knowler | Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter
Knowler’s first full-length solo album offers 14 carefully considered and compelling songs that merge traditional folk with modern sensibilities. Spending his...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Leaving None but Small Birds
This is an exciting collaboration from two heavy rock bands exploring traditional music on an album that very much pushes...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Portas
A four-time Latin Grammy winner, Brazilian Marisa Monte returns with her first solo studio album in over ten years. Portas...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
La Imagen en Silencio
Buenos Aires has strained connections with its hinterlands; beyond them, provincial Argentina has more in common with Bolivia or Mongolia...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
For the Culture
Alborosie & King Jammy | Alborosie
After leading the Bergamo-based Reggae National Tickets during the late 1990s, Sicilian-born singer Alberto D’Ascola moved to Jamaica to launch...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Calles del Olvido
Alejandro Valdés grew up in the province of Camagüey in central Cuba, playing percussion and bass before picking up guitar...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
The Rich are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives
The eighth album by British-Trinidadian Renaissance man Anthony Joseph takes its title from a line by legendary Trinidadian theorist CLR...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2021
