Reviews
A Great Day For The Race
Flap! (yes, the exclamation mark is part of the band name) hail from Melbourne and were discovered by Marcus Britton...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The Same But Different
Songlines readers may know Dan Walsh as one half of harmonica-banjo duo Walsh & Pound [featured as a Making Waves...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The God Who Devastates Also Cures
On each of Lucas Santtana's previous five albums there was a concept that the Brazilian singer-songwriter set himself, a way...
Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The Rough Guide to the Music of China
Although the liner notes trumpet the massive changes in China since the last Rough Guide CD was compiled ten years...
Reviewed by Rachel Harris in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Hook
Mary MacMaster and Donald Hay form an interesting duo, playing harp and drums. MacMaster is also a member the all-female...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Weirdlore: Notes from the Folk Underground
Weirdlore is a tag conceived by fRoots magazine editor Ian Anderson to describe a disparate collection of artists and bands...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
The Whole Affair – The Very Best of Mary Coughlan
Four years since her last release, the finest jazz and blues singer Ireland has produced since the late Ottilie Patterson...
Reviewed by Geoff Wallis in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Broadside
Bellowhead are a heavy metal outfit, Reich-like minimalists, vocal harmony virtuosi, a brass-blasting jazz combo, a shanty crew and squeezebox-driven...
Reviewed by Julian May in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Aborigines of Taiwan: Anthology of the Vocal Art
You can’t get more evocative of rural village life than song titles such as ‘Making Fun of Abu’ and Airing...
Reviewed by Shzr Ee Tan in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
Josh Billings Voyage
This is a concept album of sorts. The methodical American multi¬instrumentalist Tim Eriksen, formerly of cult alt-folk rockers Cordelia’s Dad,...
Reviewed by Matthew Milton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
