Reviews
Dengue Fever (Deluxe Edition)
Since forming in 2001, the Los Angeles-based band Dengue Fever have gained an avid following for their blend of retro...
Reviewed by Barley Norton in issue: July/2017
Songs from Mexico
It would be easy to write off Yuly Tovar as merely the 2012 winner of Mexican nationwide talent show, Graba...
Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017
High Words
My first inclination was to award this album a single star. These songs are annoyingly catchy, and they're annoyingly unfunny,...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2017
Dance of the Copper Trail
For husband and wife duo Oka Vanga's 2014 debut Pilgrim, they recorded a set of beautifully pure, mainly original instrumental...
Reviewed by Glenn Kimpton in issue: June/2017
Westward
One half of Irish duo Lumiere, with Pauline Scanlon, Éilís Kennedy hails from Dingle, Co Kerry in the west of...
Reviewed by Rachel Cunniffe in issue: June/2017
Great British Gharana
The idea of a ‘great British gharana’ – a tradition or school of music – was thought up in 2011...
Reviewed by Amar Dhillon in issue: June/2017
The Wax Cylinder Recordings
The reign of the wax cylinder was very short – a mere 20 years around the turn of the last...
Reviewed by Michael Church in issue: June/2017
Peace in the World
Ordinarily, the success of collaborations between disparate traditions is contingent on both the sonic compatibility of the instruments and the...
Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: June/2017
