Best New Albums
Top of the World - June 2019
The month's best new albums, including Ye Vagabonds, AKA Trio, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening and Minyo Crusaders.
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Top of the World – October 2019
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the October 2019 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – May 2020
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the May 2020 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – November 2018
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the November 2018 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – December 2018
The month's best new albums, including Gaye Su Akyol, Bixiga 70 and Karine Polwart
Best New Albums
Top of the World - May 2019
The month's best new albums, including The Gloaming, Le Vent du Nord and Kronos Quartet and Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat.
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Songlines #154 (January/February 2020) is now on sale!
The music industry’s response to the climate crisis, Colombian harp stars, a look back over 2019 and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
Best New Albums
Top of the World – January/February 2019
The month's best new albums, including Vaudou Game, Subhasis Bhattacharya and Jeremy Dutcher
Best New Albums
Top of the World – August/September 2019
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the August/September 2019 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – August/September 2018
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the August/September 2018 issue
Best New Albums
Top of the World – January/February 2020
The editor’s selection of the top ten new releases reviewed in the January/February 2020 issue
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Songlines #155 (March 2020) is now on sale!
Taiko drumming, joik singing, Pilgrim Father voyaging and plenty more in the latest issue of Songlines
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WOMEX Coming to Manchester
WOMEX have announced that their 2024 edition will be turning Manchester into a haven of world music next October
Features
Rowan Rheingans: “We need to learn not to be afraid to sit with some sorrow and grief. We need to make room to feel and have compassion”
The musician Rowan Rheingans has a new solo project and album that are part-memoir, part-theatre. She talks to Julian May about the many influences that shaped these works
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Spotlight: Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
Daniel Spicer reports on a new collaboration between the son of a Malian guitar legend and the hypnotic trio from Houston, a lilting fusion of desert blues, psychedelia and dub
