Reviews
Mount Matsu
Dutch group YĪN YĪN’s third album is a joyous concoction of surf guitar, retro synth and East Asian influence. The...
Reviewed by Liam Izod in issue: March/2024
Dancing with Love
Mezzo soprano Afarin Mansouri left Iran for Ontario in 2003 after growing up in the post-revolutionary environment that allowed her...
Reviewed by Tom Newell in issue: March/2024
Roots 2
The sense of community created by Devon folk duo Show of Hands is perhaps their greatest achievement. It begins on...
Reviewed by Nathaniel Handy in issue: March/2024
Mokuy
Two years on from their exquisite self-titled 2021 debut album (five stars in #172), the Hand To Earth ensemble –...
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: March/2024
The Musical Threads of the Silk Roads
Hailing from the Basque country and sharing a name with the great 14th-century explorer who travelled from North Africa all...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: March/2024
Traveling East
What makes Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk’s latest and sixth solo album, Traveling East, stand out is its fascinating fusion...
Reviewed by Franki Clemens in issue: March/2024
This is What I Want to Say
Throughout a career spanning 40 years, nearly that many albums and thousands of live performances, the Welsh singer-songwriter with the...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: March/2024
Borderlines & Bloodlines
One of the standout folk albums of 2023 in the UK, which almost flew under the radar, Birmingham-based Germa Adan’s Borderlines...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: March 2024
Desde Espana… La Columna de Fuego
Why it’s taken so long for this gem of an album to be reissued is one of those mysteries that...
Reviewed by Russ Slater Johnson in issue: January/February/2024
