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
Our reviewer falls under the spell of Skipinnish upon hearing their latest album ‘Steer by the Stars’, with its nautical themes he declares it the “catch of the day”. This is the band’s seventh album and their 20th Anniversary.
by Peter Shaw
Celebrating their 50th Anniversary this year, Steeleye Span’s latest album finds them on something of a roll as they continue dragging Child Ballads into the 21st century.
by Matt McGinn
The impeccable pairing of Turrisi and Giddens is something few would have foreseen… This is music at its most honest and primal, you can almost feel the walls of the studio shaking. Rhiannon Giddens is the absolute real deal and so is this album.
by Mike Davies
Old Man Luedecke’s ‘Easy Money’ is a relaxed and effortlessly listenable take on troubled times and personal tugs and turmoils, this is cash you definitely want in hand.
by Thomas Blake
An Evening With Nancy Kerr And James Fagan captures one of folk music’s most enduring and talented acts in their natural habitat and provides the perfect snapshot of the duo at the top of their game.
by Dave McNally
Closer to the feel and sound of a Staple Singers record than any other solo album Mavis Staples has made, We Get By is one of her very best solo albums to date – it’s a winner.
by Mike Davies
Western Stars is an album that creeps up on you and leaves your heart hurting. It’s been commented that it seems strange that Springsteen hasn’t responded to Trump’s America, but listen to this album between the lines and you’ll realise that perhaps he has.
by David Kidman
On this fourth compelling release in a limited-edition series of half-hour “split-artist” cassette tapes organised by London-based banjo player Jacken Elswyth she is joined by Glasgow-based musician Quinie (aka Josie Vallely)
by David Kidman
Mary Ann Kennedy’s Glaschu is a jewel of an album that is wonderfully packaged; impeccably performed by all concerned, and replete with inventive arrangements that present fresh insights to be discovered around every corner of the city it so vividly celebrates.
by David Pratt
Le Vent Du Nord are not only the leading exponents of traditional Québecois music but also one of the world’s foremost purveyors of folk music. Territoires is an outstanding release, confirming their status as a pre-eminent force in their field.