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Review of 150 Voices

150 Voices

Lorin Sklamberg

Lorin Sklamberg & Polina Shepherd

Rating: ★★

Sklamberg is best-known as the vocalist of The Klezmatics and an excellent Yiddish (and English) singer. Siberian-born Shepherd is also...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Going for Broke

Going for Broke

Good Habits

Good Habits

Rating: ★★★★

Good Habits are a duo from Manchester Bonnie Schwarz (vocals/cello) and Pete Shaw (accordion/cajón). By a quirk of fate, they...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of To the Awe

To the Awe

Rachel Newton

Top of the World

Shadowside Records

Rating: ★★★★

With the same band she used for her award-winning Here’s My Heart Come Take It (drummer/producer Mattie Foulds, violinist Lauren...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of From Ocean’s Floor

From Ocean’s Floor

Linda Buckley

NMC Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Linda Buckley is one of the most eclectic, least categorisable composers Ireland has produced in recent years. As likely to...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of The Living Mountain

The Living Mountain

Jenny Sturgeon

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Jenny Sturgeon is quite the renaissance woman. The Aberdeenshirebased singer-songwriter has a PhD in seabird ecology and as well as...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels

Tepid on My Trippin’ Heels

Naomi Randall

Aaahh!!! Real Records

Rating: ★★★★

Naomi Randall is a Cambridge native who debuted in 2013 with an album she shared with Tom Gaskall. Randall continued...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Pandemic Songs

Pandemic Songs

Robb Johnson

Irregular Records

Rating: ★★

Johnson is an English singersongwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve and always fights the good fight. His forefathers...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Tempo

Tempo

Rodrigo Costa Félix

Top of the World

Fado World

Rating: ★★★★

It’s eight years since the release of Costa Félix’s last disc. Admittedly, his previous album, Fados de Amor, was a...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Murder, and the Birds

Murder, and the Birds

David A Jaycock

Triassic Tusk Records

Rating: ★★★

David A Jaycock has previously collaborated with Marry Waterson and James Yorkston. This album is a dark, eccentric exploration of...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Hearth

Hearth

Mairearad Green

Buie Records

Rating: ★★★★

Multi­instrumentalist Mairearad Green’s latest album is inspired by the women and landscapes of Coigach, a peninsula in Wester Ross in...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

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