Album Reviews

Protest songs are funny things. On the one hand they’re essential: the voice of the voiceless, musicians prepared to stand on stage and call out the evils of the world, large and small. On the other […]

‘Dumb Ass’ or ‘The Hidden’ – two translations of El Tapado which is The Rockingbird’s founder member Alan Tyler’s tenth album all told. It is, however, the first that he has almost exclusively recorded and played […]

It’s probably a reasonable bet that Estonian bluegrass hasn’t impinged much on the musical consciousness of most music fans until now but Curly Strings should change all that.  This is their second album (probably, might be […]

An album of delicate playing, strong emotion and beautiful harmonised playing and singing. What more could a listener ask from an album. Not much, really. For the most part this is a collection of fully realised […]

It is an immutable law of album reviewing that at the end of every year when things are winding down and there’s very little new around an album pops up that is, quite simply, immense. It’s […]