Reviews

Amor Fati

Fatima Szalay

Fatima Szalay is a young Hungarian singer who trained at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and this is her debut...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Dramagical

Seán Heely

Seán Heely is a young fiddle player and Gaelic singer based in Washington, DC who is a US National Scottish...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Hirondelle

Hirondelle

Hirondelle is an unlikely cohort of Northumbrian, Scottish and Provençal musicians with a just as improbable fascination for the Occitan...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Gifts of Light

Spell Songs

Spell Songs is a triumphant collaboration, in which seven great musicians are inspired by the books of Robert Macfarlane and...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

A Time to Grow

The Henry Girls

The Breath’s Ríoghnach Connolly guests on this album from the folk trio from Inishowen in northern Donegal, alongside sisters Karen,...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Inner Winter

Gentle Stranger

On previous full-lengths Gentle Stranger have lived up to their self-proclaimed ‘post-clown’ cabaret tag by diligently committing themselves to a...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

CYRM

ØXN

In January 2021, Lankum’s Radie Peat and drone-folk artist Katie Kim hosted a livestream featuring heavy arrangements of traditional tales...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

II

Fränder

Is prog folk a genre? Then Swedish band Fränder may be a fit, with their mix of bombastic vocals, heavy...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Memory Islands

Ellie Wilson

Ellie Wilson is an explorer of the contemporary classical, folk and electronica worlds, and her new album, Memory Islands, documents...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Gula Gula

Mari Boine

Fragile, urgent and strong, Gula Gula reveals itself within the first 20 seconds of the title-track as one of the...

Reviewed in issue March/2024