Reviews
Borderlines & Bloodlines
One of the standout folk albums of 2023 in the UK, which almost flew under the radar, Birmingham-based Germa Adan’s...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March/2024
Hirondelle
Hirondelle is an unlikely cohort of Northumbrian, Scottish and Provençal musicians with a just as improbable fascination for the Occitan...
Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: March/2024
Tears of the Sun
The sophomore album from rising Nigerian star Teni is an Afrobeats-tastic affair in which the artist sings and raps in...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2024
Gifts of Light
Spell Songs is a triumphant collaboration, in which seven great musicians are inspired by the books of Robert Macfarlane and...
Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: March/2024
A Time to Grow
The Breath’s Ríoghnach Connolly guests on this album from the folk trio from Inishowen in northern Donegal, alongside sisters Karen,...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: March/2024
Inner Winter
On previous full-lengths Gentle Stranger have lived up to their self-proclaimed ‘post-clown’ cabaret tag by diligently committing themselves to a...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: March/2024
El Terreno
Jacob Gurevitsch makes sure to stress he is not a flamenco musician – in spite of often being presented as...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: March/2024
Yoshitsune
Yoshitsune is a concept album that hits like a comic book punch. The psychedelic hard-rock of French group PoiL proves...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2024
