Reviews

Fallow Ground

Spiers & Boden

Spiers & Boden have had a defining role in 21st-century British folk, from their early years with Eliza Carthy's Ratcatchers,...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

HEISK

HEISK

Punchy drums, electronic flourishes, ear-catching grooves: this is instrumental trad-inspired tunes taken out of the pub and elevated to the...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

MISST.EU!

MISST

This Belgian harmony group constitutes ‘five voices – four misses and a mister.’ Having represented Flanders at the 2017 Ferrara...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Fire Draw Near

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Fire Draw Near is a bewitching baker's dozen of often rough and raw but altogether relishable recordings. Compiled by Lankum's...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Songs Without Authors Vol 1

Broadside Hacks

Every emerging folk singer likes to think their interpretation offers the listener a chance to hear, to think, something new:...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Live at TUSK 2019

Grupi Lab

Recorded at the eclectic TUSK Festival in Gateshead, this live set captures the last night of the first ever UK...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

L'infinit

Francesc Sans

Francesc Sans is a much travelled Catalan player of the cornamusa, a type of gaita or bagpipes (cornemuse in French)....

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Now and Then

Multumult

The term ‘world music’ has become increasingly vague over the years, and although this recording, from a trio of Romanian...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

The Brickfields

Granny''s Attic

This fourth studio album from the British folk trio is one of many albums born out of the pandemic that...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Evocazioni e Invocazioni

Davide Ambrogio

Ancient resonances tinge Davide Ambrogio's timbre. He is a Calabrian singer and multi-instrumentalist – guitars, Calabrian lyre, zampogna (bagpipes), electronics...

Reviewed in issue November/2021