Reviews
Soundshades
This is an intriguing album with moments of genuine excitement, beauty and ingenuity. Soundshades is the first recording from Yaron...
Reviewed by Bill Badley in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960
This album chronicles the only existing complete concert performance by the inestimably important American folk musician during the period in...
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Break It Up
Rura are one of the most promising and interesting young bands to emerge recently and this, their debut album, establishes...
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Way Up On The Hill
Here’s a jaunty set of songs from the Sussex-based Appalachian-themed band Hatful of Rain, rolling through a tidal wave of...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
The Other Shore
Few artists are as cosmopolitan as Marta Topferova. Born and partly raised in Czechoslovakia, this 30-something singer-songwriter emigrated to the...
Reviewed by Tim Woodall in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Chasing the Light
The Birmingham-based Old Dance School’s debut album Forecast was full of the first flush of recording excitement; a follow-up was...
Reviewed by Rose Skelton in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Che Guava’s Rickshaw Diaries
Lokki Terra have gone from strength to strength since their first gig in 2006 at a concert titled From Bangla-beat...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
Contours of Cairngorm (Live)
Opening with the sweetly rousing ‘Sunrise’, Mhairi Hall and Patsy Reid’s Contours of Cairngorm is an accomplished and polished collaboration....
Reviewed by Billy Rough in issue: Aug/Sep/2012
