'an echo, a ghostly presence gifted to us by the powers of magnetic tape' - Ian Maleney on David Toop's 1978 recordings of Yanomami ritual songs & ceremonies
"it's less The Pogues and maybe more The Clash or even Against Me at times" - Niall McGuirk on Dropkick Murphys' 11 Short Stories Of Pain And Glory
"So, maybe after all, the kids are sometimes alright" - Dara Higgins on FEWS recently released debut, Means
Field Music return from side project dalliances with Commontime, and it's uncommonly good
"an aural guide book, one that’s living and breathing and in constant motion" - Dara Higgins on Fiona Brice's Postcards From
"The sound of a gig happening in a barely furnished bedsit on the 3rd floor of a Georgian tenement" - Dara Higgins on Globelamp's The Orange Glow
Hilde Marie Holsen 'transforms the simply beautiful into the sublime' on Ask, says Ian Maleney
'the music still swoops and soars and gleefully revels in the sheer scale of its own ambition' - Hugh McCabe on Joanna Newsom's Divers
'rooted in equal parts medieval Baroque, 20th Century experimentalism and West Coast pop songwriting' - Hugh McCabe on Julia Holter's Have You In My Wilderness
Junk Son's Beginning Ending Pretending "is at its heart a nocturnal beast" says Dara Higgins