Album Reviews

The new album from Select Captain, aka Dane Kristian Gaarskjaer, starts as impressively as you could wish with the slow and stately Fit.  With just a piano for accompaniment Gaarskjaer intones lyrics with serious emotional heft […]

Try for a moment to count the number of guitar legends who came to prominence in the 1960s and you may be enlisting friends to provide the extra fingers and thumbs needed to keep tally. To […]

Janne Saaristo is from Sweden. Gothenburg, to be exact. It’s important to be exact. In ‘Old Dogs’, the opening song of his second album, the ex-punk sings that “even an old dog can learn” and all about “masters […]

The name of Lakeman is a common one in folk circles. Brothers Seth, Sam and Sean have long become a byword for reliably high class and innovative music, be it individually or in collaboration with other […]