Honest, in-depth album reviews by KLOF Mag – championing and curating intelligent, uncompromising voices in contemporary and experimental music since 2004.
Albums
by Bob Fish
The journey goes ever onward for Ralph McTell with his seventy-fifth birthday on the horizon. Taking paths less travelled and understanding that it’s less about the destination than the people you meet along the road. May they continue to be varied and may he continue to provide moments of unrivalled beauty.
by Mike Davies
Possessed of the beauty and wildness of its settings, ‘The Edge of the World’ is yet another compelling album from The Orphan Brigade, to borrow from the location in which it was born, a veritable Giant’s Causeway of music, lyrics and atmosphere.
by Mike Davies
Rivers That Flow in Circles, the latest album from Birmingham’s Boat to Row, is a sublime album of intricately layered instruments and arrangements, consummately crafted and played.
by David Kidman
Northern Lights is a fabulous “welcome back” record from a band with real charisma. And those vocal harmonies are to die for…Very highly recommended.
by Bob Fish
The genius of Opsi lies in the ability of Jens Carelius to capture a portrait of a man who was fascinating not only for what he did but who he was… the portrait we observe is of a man in total, complete with gifts and faults, but a man well worth knowing.
by David Kidman
Throughout “An Evening With…” I’m struck over and again by the sheer wow factor, the spine-tingling effectiveness of this particular extraordinary musical partnership of John Renbourn & Jacqui McShee. However many albums you own by these two musicians, you’ll still need this one!
by Mike Davies
It’s been said that being happy is the death blow to artistic creation, especially as a songwriter, but Dori Freeman is ample testament that a swelling heart can produce songs every bit as good as a broken one.
by Peter Shaw
With this second remarkable album, Jack Rutter has confirmed himself to be one of the foremost performers of traditional material in the British folk scene. With his voice, alongside his guitar, proving to be an equally enthralling instrument.
by Thomas Blake
Few artists can so effectively use the strangeness of the old to pin down the strangeness of the new. The Fiery Margin achieves this with the vigour and surefootedness of an artist fully engaged with the world and yet never fully at peace with it.
by Danny Neill
With ‘Battlefield Dance Floor’, Show of Hands have put together one of the most cohesive, diverse and persuasive sets of their entire career and one of the most consistently adventurous collections in their catalogue.
by Paul Kerr
It’s not that often that an album from an unknown quantity totally blindsides you, forcing you to listen, once, twice, thrice and more, all the better to wallow in its excellence. Such is the case with Workin’ And Dreamin’.