Album Reviews
Los Brujos “Alchemy” (InSeam Records, 2020)
This digital-only release EP can be seen as a sign of the times we are all currently having to endure. I am not sure how much of a long-term band Los Brujos are, and they definitely […]
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Album Reviews
Instrumental focus: We review 2 new albums without words from Ben Harper and John Lee Shannon
We don’t get instrumental albums to review in AUK land very often and lo and behold two pop up at once, the first being Ben Harper’s, ‘Winter is for Lovers’, the second ‘In and Of’, by […]
Album Reviews
Otis Gibbs “Hosier National” (Wanamaker, 2020)
In the eighteen years that have passed since the 2002 issue of his debut album, ‘49th and Melancholy’ Otis Gibbs has released a succession of albums showcasing his witty, observational, political and storytelling songs that along […]
Album Reviews
Charlie Kaplan “Sunday” (Independent, 2020)
Charlie Kaplan is a New York based singer-songwriter and Sunday is his debut album written in the wake of his father’s death it represents an exorcism of sorts. “Each song [on Sunday] was an exercise in conjuring […]
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Sam Burton “I Can Go With You” (Tompkins Square, 2020)
A moody, woozy debut album, given life in the salt flats of Utah. ‘Downer Folk’ is what the PR blurb calls it; quite succinctly put too. Drenched in echo, Burton’s voice is as sad as Orbison […]