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Review of Amplexo

Amplexo

Inês de Vasconcellos

Museu do Fado

Rating: ★★★

What does it currently take to stand out from the massive crowd of new fadistas that keeps growing by the...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of A Drop for Neptune

A Drop for Neptune

TRIP

TRIP Music

Rating: ★★★

A Drop for Neptune marks the debut album for Glasgow based six-piece TRIP, and it’s an album steeped in the...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Zay Freylekh!

Zay Freylekh!

Dobranotch

CPL Music

Rating: ★★★★

The Russian klezmer band Dobranotch (Goodnight) are like a retro homage to the larger bands of the American klezmer revival...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Ingen Mere Gråter

Ingen Mere Gråter

Ævestaden

Ævestaden

Rating: ★★★★

There’s a subgenre called ‘dream pop’ that covers bands from Cocteau Twins to Beach House. Ævestaden’s music could be described as...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of After the City

After the City

Bird in the Belly

GFM Records

Rating: ★★★

The Brighton band’s third album is a smokily atmospheric folk noir not a million miles from the fearsome futurology of...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Yonder Green Grove

Yonder Green Grove

The Norfolk Broads

The Norfolk Broads

Rating: ★★★

The four women who make up The Norfolk Broads first met in the alto section of the Trad Academy Sea...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Danças de Porto de Mós

Danças de Porto de Mós

Aire

Sons Vadios

Rating: ★★★

Danças de Porto de Mós tells only half the story. The first album by Aire collects 16 new renditions of...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Drawn to the Light

Drawn to the Light

Alaw | ALAW

Taith Records

Rating: ★★★

Fiddle player Oli Wilson-Dickson and guitarist Dylan Fowler have a lengthy history of working together, sharing projects including The Devil’s...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Both in a Tune

Both in a Tune

Knight & Spiers

Top of the World

Peter Knight & John Spiers

Rating: ★★★★

Two giants of English folk from different generations come together with an album of tunes that follows on from their...

Reviewed in issue April/2022

Review of Sita

Sita

Alessia Tondo

Ipe Ipe Music

Rating: ★★★★

A formidable talent, an enfant prodige of the Salento music scene, Alessia Tondo, the female voice of the marvellous Canzoniere...

Reviewed in issue March/2022

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