Reviews

Wurdiz

Sowulo

Dutch Nordic dark folk band Sowulo harks back to the times of gods where the stories and beliefs of our...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Time Was Away

Emily Portman & Rob Harbron

Portman and Harbron are, in their different ways, leading lights of contemporary English folk – Portman as a singer, songwriter...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Sand, Silt, Flint

Fiona Soe Paing

Avant-garde folk doesn’t get much better than this. Fiona Soe Paing’s second solo album provides a brooding soundtrack to the...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Hushman

Hushman

The name Hushman may not be immediately familiar to you, but it is the name for a new project from...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Mae ’na Olau

Pedair

Siân James, Gwyneth Glyn, Meinir Gwilym and Gwenan Gibbard first sang together five years ago, and after recording five songs...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Flight Paths

Siskin Quartet

Siskin Quartet are a melding together of two remarkable duos. English-born fiddler Bridget Marsden and accordionist Leif Ottosson – outstanding...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Le Solas Faoithine

Jack Warnock

It’s been a wait for a follow-up to Jack Warnock’s debut EP in 2013. A decade on, the County Derry-born...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Gog Magog

The Trials of Cato

After four years, The Trials of Cato are back with a second album that’s even better than their award-winning debut....

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Ecos de Magerit

Melón Jiménez

This album offers ‘Echoes from Magerit,’ a phonetic representation of the Arabic name for the Spanish capital. It’s the second...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Helleristning

Julie Alapnes

Alapnes was five when she stood in her grandfather’s kitchen in North Norway learning how to hold the fiddle that...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023