Album Reviews
Mexico City “Closer to Home”
Mexico City’s new album drags the listener in and keeps them there with its live-to-tape 70’s feel. Mexico City are from Brisbane Australia so it’s not likely you would come across them at a local UK […]
Reviews
Album Reviews
Dave Helgi Johan “Drumheller”
Canadian lo-fi indie troubadour relocates across the globe and releases a very promising solo debut album. In 2019 Dave Helgi Johan left his hometown in the small Icelandic community of Gimli, Manitoba, Canada and relocated to […]
Album Reviews
Gloria Taylor “Sun” EP
Taylor delivers us some musical therapy for these darkest of times. Gloria Taylor is a singer-songwriter from Southern California whose debut album ‘Go For The Moon’ (2018), offered enough evidence of her talent to whet the […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: Paul Heaton + Billy Bragg, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 2nd December 2022
I had intended to open this review by noting that, for me, this would be the second in a row of male / female vocal acts I’d reviewed for AUK (after War and Treaty back in […]
Album Reviews
Julia Sanders “Morning Star”
The transition to motherhood brought to life with subtle variations in musical styles. For her second album Julia Sanders set out to debunk the perception that songs about the transition from womanhood to motherhood would not […]