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
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows, the second volume homage to the late great John Prine does ample justice to his talent and legacy, this is a terrific collection.
by Mike Davies
Joined once again by The Orphan Brigade and a number of guest musicians, Amy Speace’s Tuscon is a stunning and deeply affecting work, a catharsis for her and an epiphany for all who hear it.
by Bob Fish
Dena Miller has one of those voices so incredibly high and pure that, at times, it’s almost shocking the things she sings about as Deer Scout on her debut album, Woodpecker.
by Mike Davies
Featuring an all-star ensemble of Nashville musicians, Molly Tuttle delivers her first all-bluegrass album and Nonesuch debut with Crooked Tree – In a forest of Americana saplings, Tuttle is a sturdy evergreen whose roots cling deep.
by Bob Fish
The music of Calexico’s El Mirador creates an ever-changing multicultural kaleidoscope of the American southwest. Along the way, you discover that while the sounds may seem foreign, they are also intoxicating.
by Mike Davies
VanWyck’s ‘The Epic Tale Of the Stranded Man’ is a major work that clearly, like the ancient epics on which it draws, serves as a cautionary mirror to society, it’s a stunning creation and surely, at some point, demands a dramatic multi-media staging.
Shifting away from his previous unique stripped-back style, Nick Hart Sings Ten English Folk Songs features a surprisingly wide variety of instruments and some impressively alluring multi-layered arrangements. He carries these folk songs on into the current time, giving them new life and extending their long history.
by Mike Davies
Zachary Cale’s latest album ‘Skywriting’ was born out of the arriving and departing life of a touring musician and of all the reflections and questions it can throw up. This one’s sure to fly above the radar.
by Mike Davies
Big Spring is the first time Kevin Buckley has both featured fiddle and wholly based the music on his folk roots. Whether it’s a one-off or marks an invigorating new direction for his career, this is a hugely enjoyable and listenable album.
by David Pratt
In music that displays fierce energy, frenzied rhythms, and natural harmonies in the rich San Tomean melodic tradition, Antologia Volume 1 brings the Pan African sound of África Negra to a wider audience and most convivialade it is too.