Reviews
Vainaan Perua: Satavuotinen Sakka
There’s a fascinating premise behind this new release from Finnish folk violinist Emilia Lajunen, the title of which translates as...
Reviewed by Chris Wheatley in issue: December/2023
Ultrabelleza
This first full-length album by Spanish singer-songwriter María José Llergo offers further proof of her versatile reimagining of traditional flamenco,...
Reviewed by Huw Hennessy in issue: December/2023
Solen Var Bättre Där
When I reviewed Ævestaden’s 2021 debut album Ingen Mere Gråter in Songlines #176 (April 2022), I described their music as...
Reviewed by Tony Gillam in issue: December/2023
iViV
When you listen closely to Oriane Lacaille’s music, you inveitably think of Leyla McCalla. The Creole quality of Lacaille’s songs...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: December/2023
Collage
Erlend Apneseth Trio with Maja S K Ratkje
The list of musical genres that Norwegian band Erlend Apneseth Trio tap into for their new album, Collage, could be...
Reviewed by Devon Léger in issue: December/2023
Galargan
Cardiff-based songwriter and instrumentalist Gareth Bonello, better known as The Gentle Good, explores the traditional song and folklore of his...
Reviewed by Kevin Bourke in issue: December/2023
Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
Speaking to Songlines in 2021, Irish folk singer John Francis Flynn described his debut album, I Would Not Live Always,...
Reviewed by Olivia Cheves in issue: December/2023
Tøyen Sessions
Although all the compositions on this new album by Norway’s Larsen Trio were apparently written by Larsen himself, you might...
Reviewed by Jon Lusk in issue: December/2023
Land of My Other
Land of My Other is the third studio album from The Breath, a partnership between singer Ríoghnach Connolly and ex-Cinematic...
Reviewed by Tim Cumming in issue: December/2023
