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
Playful, tender, thoughtful and moving, An Honest Effort is another reminder that Patershuk is one of the finest songwriters around, it’s an A for effort and accomplishment all the way around.
by Ben Garland
The serene beauty of An Overview on Phenomenal Nature was precisely what many of us needed during lockdown, now Cassandra Jenkins offers a similar respite while taking her album on tour.
by Mike Davies
On ‘Three Generations of Leaving’, Single Girl, Married Girl chronicle the tribulations of three generations of women – an assuredly crafted and highly rewarding listen.
by Mike Davies
Calumet Queen is an outstanding debut from Kiely Connell, written and sung with wisdom, insights and experience of a life-seasoned artist – a late in the year contender for the best-of lists.
by Mike Davies
Abby Posner’s ‘Kisbee Ring’ is a gently beguiling album about overcoming trials and tribulations on which her lyrics percolate around themes of depression, racial oppression, healing and rescue.
by Mike Davies
Janet Batch’s day job is a landscape gardener; as a singer-songwriter she’s a veritable country Capability Brown as attests on her second album ‘You Be The Wolf’.
by Thomas Blake
Throughout Sleeping Spirals, the debut album from Hannah James and Toby Kuhn, distinct threads of travel, place and self-discovery come together to form a complex but unified whole. It is a journey you will want to take again and again.
by Bob Fish
Featuring 41 artists & 130 musicians, Highway Butterfly: The Music of Neal Casal gives us a new look at music that should never have been taken quite so casually, it’s a legacy that deserves to be heard over and over again.
by Mike Davies
Tightrope is the long-awaited second solo album from Joe Tilston, one which concerns walking that tightrope between despair and hope, as such, it casts Tilston very much as folk’s answer to Charles Blondin.
by Mike Davies
It’s been a long 14 years since South Yorkshire’s Kate Green’s first and last release. A Dark Carnival marks a very welcome long-awaited return, to take her place among this country’s finest folk singers.
by Mike Davies
Margo Cilker’s taken her time readying this grander entrance onto the Americana stage. Pohorylle is one of the year’s finest debuts, that stage is hers for the taking.
by Bob Fish
The Magic Lantern has created a work that will end up on many end-of-the-year lists. The songs on A Reckoning Bell stand out in their capacity to both communicate and transform expectations. Few albums today do both so well.