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Review of Lost Things Returning

Lost Things Returning

We Are Muffy

Country Mile Records

Rating: ★★

This is the second outing with the Cornwall-based, Birmingham-raised alt-folk duo Angeline Morrison and Nick Duffy. Following their debut, which...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Vento do Mar

Vento do Mar

Cacha Mundinho

Mundus Productions

Rating: ★★★★

This soulful album has the seamless feel of a longtime collaboration, rather than the debut production that it is. Portuguese...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of The Shovel Dance

The Shovel Dance

Shovel Dance Collective

American Dreams

Rating: ★★★

Lankum aren’t the only purveyors of doom-laden folk. London-based nine-piece Shovel Dance Collective show with this, their second album, that...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Betwixt & Between 11

Betwixt & Between 11

Bridget & Kitty/Resonant Bodies

Betwixt & Between Tapes

Rating: ★★★

Betwixt & Between Tapes is a quirky, niche proposition: an occasional series of cassette tape EPs featuring traditional, improvised and...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Umbelliferæ

Umbelliferæ

Kate Young

Kate Young

Rating: ★★★★

Inspired by her love of aromatic plants, the traditions of folk and classical music, and her own chromesthesia (‘ability to...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Lifa Iotungard (Live)

Lifa Iotungard (Live)

Heilung

Season of Mist

Rating: ★★★★

For German Kai Uwe Faust, Dane Christopher Juul and Norwegian Maria Franz, who record together as Heilung, a live album...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Parlour Ballads

Parlour Ballads

Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings

Hudson Records

Rating: ★★★★

Parlour ballads, as a genre, get poor press as low-grade, middle-class Victoriana, but here’s Jon Boden at the piano (and...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Latem (Summertime)

Latem (Summertime)

WoWaKin & Guests

Baba Studio

Rating: ★★★★

WoWaKin are a Polish trio playing violin, three-row accordion and drums with all the verve and vivacity of a village...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Sotali

Sotali

Pettersson & Fredriksson

Nordvis Produktion

Rating: ★★★★

Swedish folk duo Pettersson & Fredriksson originally released this set in 2010 and present it here for the first time...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of In the Dark We Grow

In the Dark We Grow

Hannah Saunders & Ben Savage

Sungrazing Records

Rating: ★★★★

The folk duo’s fourth album, In the Dark We Grow, steers away from the compelling introspective spareness of 2022’s Ink...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

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