Honest, in-depth album reviews by KLOF Mag – championing and curating intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004.
Albums
by Mike Davies
Life’s What You Make It is another intoxicating covers collection, curated by Lush founder Mark Constantine, featuring some well-known folk names, that again reminds us that music is only limited by the imagination you bring to it.
by Mike Davies
About Time, Hannah White’s follow-up to her highly acclaimed Nordic Connections, finds her positively luminous as she delivers ten self-penned songs that speak to her musical influences and life experience.
by Mike Davies
Jess Jocoy cuts to the heart of universally recognisable emotions, doubts, fears and hopes as she calls on the listener to stare despair in the face and refuse to be its victim.
by Bob Fish
What Jo Schornikow writes for Altar is, in many ways, like a movie where the images you see last long after the movie is over, and you replay them again and again in your mind.
by Mike Davies
Lady Mondegreen is not so radical as to alienate the purists but sufficiently filtered through a contemporary folk lens to attract audiences wanting fresh readings. Fellow Pynins have made a fine contribution to the canon that respects the heritage while ploughing new furrows.
by Bob Fish
Laney Jones is not the same woman who broke onto the music scene ten years ago. She has dealt with demons and depression, finding new pathways forward. Stories Up High illustrates the growth and acceptance that allow her to remain positive during uncertain times.
by Bob Fish
Sometimes the truth hurts, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t hear it. On Wellswood, Thomas Dollbaum captivates by telling the truth and letting the chips fall where they may.
by Thomas Blake
On ‘Swift Wings’, Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus demonstrate a delicacy of thought and an ear for the finer detail that elevates the album above mere document. It is a fitting legacy for Victor Neuburg, a misunderstood poet, and a fine work of art in its own right.
by Mike Davies
Heidi Talbot’s ‘Sing It For A Lifetime’ may have been born of hurt, pain and confusion, but there’s a strength within its musical veins. This may be the best work of Talbot’s career to date.
by David Pratt
Les Racines is not only an album of which Ali Farka Touré would have been proud to witness the traditions and beliefs he espoused and embraced being perpetuated, but it also confirms that musically Vieux Farka Touré is now his distinguished father’s rightful heir.
by Bob Fish
With ‘This Is a Photograph’, Kevin Morby finds the passion and emotion that make us living and breathing people, tingeing that with realities that humanise us all.