Reviews

Time Ashore

Kirsty Bromley

Sheffield-based 20-something Kirsty Bromley began her personal musical journey singing in choirs, then played in brass bands and danced with...

Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: June/2026

Colors of Brazil

Cabruêra

One of Brazil's most unclassifiable bands is back with a major international release. Bringing together Cabruêra's two most recent albums...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: June/2026

Roll Up the Night Sky

Dana Sipos

Canadian Dana Sipos has one of those voices usually described in words such as ethereal, ghostly, pastoral or ‘almost identical...

Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: June/2026

Homelands

Alyth

Homelands is Alyth McCormack's third solo album and a rather sweet and alluring work it is too. A mix of...

Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: June/2026

The Drunken Wind of Life: The Poem/Songs of Tin Ujević

John Kruth

Musical relations between the US and Croatia are of long standing, with some of the earliest recordings of the tamburica...

Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: June/2026

The Indispensable 1955-1962

Miriam Makeba

Once music goes out of its 50-year copyright, open season follows on the reissues market. Two issues ago I reviewed...

Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2026

Por Ahí

Rana Santacruz

Born and raised in Mexico City, but based in Brooklyn since 2002, Rana Santacruz styles himself as a Latino heir...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2026

Elementuak

Kalakan

After touring as guest performers on Madonna's 2012 MDNA tour, Basque trio Kalakan sat down to re-centre themselves and record...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: June/2026

Best Of

Ismaël Lô

There was a time, back in the 90s, when it seemed that Ismaël Lô was destined to become one of...

Reviewed by Robin Denselow in issue: June/2026

La Ruta de la Pantera

La-33

Having borrowed their album's title (‘The Way of the Panther’) from a Marvel comic, and previously reinvented Henry Mancini's Pink...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2026