Album Review: Savage On The Downhill by Amber Cross
"...She's steeped in the country heritage of her predecessors and the heritage of her country..."
Record Reviews
Album Review: Vanessa Peters – Foxhole Prayers
Foxhole Prayers explores the modern world of alternative facts and populist politics through rich metaphors and a literary sense of scale.
Album Review: Will Hoge – My American Dream
"My American Dream feels like a cohesive and comprehensive record for the depths it dives and the ferocity and passion of the delivery. Definitely one for fans of Jason Isbell…
Suburban Dirts I Want Blood review
In the 1790s, Micajah “Big” Harpe and Wiley ‘Little’ Harpe were not content with theft, rape, river privacy and highway robbery. They graduated to tying beaten victims to horses then…
Non Canon St Pancras Old Church concert review
September 12, 2018: Non Canon at St. Pancras Old Church, London “Let’s not get into the semantics of emo”After a thorough warm up by three artists, Non Canon came on…
Album Review: Juanita Stein – Until The Lights Fade
"It's as if Jenny Lewis and Lana Del Rey's styles had been fused on the streets of Camden."
Will Varley Spirit of Minne album review
Spirit of Minnie by Will Varley “Breaking news I can’t hear anymore/lines in the sand that we used to draw/looking for another kind of war” It’s rare that an album…
Belle Adair Tuscumbia album review
Tuscumbia by Belle Adair The record starts rich but tender, the harmonies setting up an album of chilled musings. Long Fade Out has a 90s modern rock vibe somewhere between…
Album Review: Sonia Leigh – Mad Hatter
"...the music zings and shudders and Leigh burst in with a vocoder. It's a shot in the arm..."
Album Review: Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black
"Some people are saying they want to make the world great again, but we never lost our greatness. We just strayed into division."
Album Review – Juanita Stein – America
Juanita Stein explore the meaning of America and Americans from a distance and at the most intimate levels - from widescreen to close-up - revealing dualities, contrasts and balance all…
The Coal Porters, Phil Odgers and Smith & Brewer concert review
May 7, 2017: The Coal Porters, Phil Odgers with Bobby Valentino, and Ben Smith & Jimmy Brewer at Union Chapel Upper Hall “Purveyors of fine songs and fine velvet jackets”It’s…
Dave Hause: Bury Me In Philly album review
Continuing the journey through recovery, relapse and redemption
Worry Dolls – Go Get Gone review: cohesive and assured
You don’t have to spend much time at country and Americana shows in London before you come across Rosie Jones and Zoë Nicol. If they’re not on stage themselves they’re…
Smith and Brewer EP review
Ben Smith and Jimmy Brewer by Smith and Brewer Ben Smith and Jimmy Brewer’s voices soothe us right from the start. It’s a tale of loneliness and anticipation, twin emotions…