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Review of Fall Away Blues

Fall Away Blues

Red Tail Ring

Earthwork Music

Rating: ★★★★

Kalamazoo, Michigan-based duo Red Tail Ring describe their music as ‘old-time roots, new-time sounds.’ Their description aptly sums up the...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2017

Review of Voices

Voices

Ranagri

Goatskin Records

Rating: ★★★

Ranagri are an Anglo-Irish contemporary folk quartet whose songs have an epic quality, with soaring vocals from Donal Rogers, echoing...

Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: March/2017

Review of Night Hours

Night Hours

Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith

Fellside Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second studio album from the young Bristol folk duo. It is a well-judged collection that feels very...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2017

Review of Amplitude

Amplitude

Danças Ocultas & Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras

Galileo

Rating: ★★★★

The concertina is as versatile as it is portable – hence its pivotal role in American, Argentinian and South African...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: March/2017

Review of Big Machine

Big Machine

Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band

Top of the World

Topic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Bold, brassy and bendy, Eliza Carthy's Big Machine is a monster of an album, and she has a monster of...

Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2017

Review of Las Flores del Sol

Las Flores del Sol

Nilamayé

Buda Musique

Rating: ★★★

As one of the main gateways into Latin America during the slave trade, Colombia owes a lot to Africa, as...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2017

Review of Discover Music from the Pacific

Discover Music from the Pacific

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Part of the ARC label's Discover series, this compilation features music from across the many island nations of the Pacific....

Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2017

Review of Findings

Findings

Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater

Story Records

Rating: ★★★

Ange Hardy and Lukas Drinkwater have been performing as a duo since December 2015 and this album encapsulates what they...

Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2017

Review of Fiddler's Dream

Fiddler's Dream

Michael Cleveland

Compass Records

Rating: ★★★

It's not hard to see why so many are in awe of blind bluegrass fiddler Michael Cleveland. One listen to...

Reviewed by Matt Milton in issue: March/2017

Review of Desconstrução

Desconstrução

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Goma Gringa

Rating: ★★★★

No one's been doing a better job at bringing São Paulo, Brazil's never-ending megalopolis, to life in recent years than...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: March/2017

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