Albums

NAKSHATRA is the debut album from Brooklyn, NY violinist duo Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy, a lush and spiritual collaboration that bridges traditions and defies genres.

There is an openness to La Bête Blanche, a delight in music’s power to elucidate complex ideas simply, and with good humour…. Whatever genre they happen to be joyously ransacking, Storm the Palace are masters of the art of communicating.

Juni Habel’s Carvings is a captivating musical and poetic experience, a fearless conception that is thoroughly contemporary while almost traditional in its authenticity of expression and directness of communication. Juni is a voice that needs to be heard.

John McCusker’s ‘The Best Of’ is an ideal introduction to the breadth and depth of one of the very best traditional musicians working today…a rare musician whose fiddle style and overall production sound is both distinctive and alluring.

Here are our favourite Top 100 folk and alternative albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by our core writers.

Trent Freeman, best known as a fiery fiddle player in The Fretless, has released an EP of original fiddle tunes, recorded live on Vancouver Island. The line-up is from the top drawer of Canadian roots talent.

David Morrison shares his Top 10 albums of 2022 including Mali Obomsawin, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Blue Moon Marquee, Pharis & Jason Romero, Of The Sun, Jeb Loy Nichols, Gina Davis and more.

Bob Fish shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Unthanks, Bonny Light Horseman, Joan Shelley, Su-a Lee, Big Thief, Kevin Morby and more.

Mike Davies shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 featuring Alison O’Donnell, Mary Gauthier, Janis Ian, Julian Taylor, Emma Guzman, Angeline Morrison, Garrett Heath, Luke James Williams, Michael Weston King and Memorial.

Thomas Blake shares his Top 10 Albums of 2022 featuring Maxine Funke, Big Thief, Richard Dawson, Dana Gavanski, Burd Ellen, The Shovel Dance Collective, Bill Callahan, Jacken Elswyth, One Leg One Eye & Angeline Morrison.

Danny Neill selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Wave Pictures, Big Thief, Leyla McCalla, Molly Tuttle, Sharron Kraus, Kevin Morby, Kathryn Williams, Andrew Bird and more.

David Pratt selects his Top 10 Albums of 2022 including The Movers, The Hanging Stars, Rachel Newton & Lauren MacColl, Angeline Morrison, Ranagri, Robb Johnson, Madalitso Band, Àfrica Negra and Perú Selvático and The Watersons.