Reviews
Workin' and Dreamin'
Hoth Brothers share an abiding affinity for unadulterated folk, old-time and classic country music and a hatred of the current...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Altiplano
The Altiplano Andino (Andean High Plain) is talismanic in the countries that are its main home: Bolivia and Peru. Those...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
HaitaNola
Haitian roots revival outfit Lakou Mizik prompted double takes with their 2016 debut album Wa Di Do, a work that...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Sonocardiogram
Fronting big bands by 14, Cuban singer Daymé Arocena is now 27 and releasing her fourth album for Brownswood Recordings,...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Historia Natural
The three members of Colombia's Los Pirañas have been making music together in various guises since the late 90s and...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
El Carretero
It's not often that an album comes along with an opening track so compelling it begs several listens before you...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
Esencia
Studio-recorded mariachi needs to be kept loose and as live-sounding as possible to work at all. With its female and...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
O Céu É Velho Há Muito Tempo
Starting of with a ringing guitar chord that seems to signal dread, the latest from Brazil's Lucas Santtana is inextricably...
Reviewed in issue December/2019
ABAN
Touring around Europe and the US heavily in recent months, the Garifuna gang from Belize sound much more traditionally folkloric...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
