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
Throughout Come Swim, Emma Gatrill creates a unique musical alchemy. By turning the writing process on its head, she gains the freedom to reinvent her music and, by doing so, has established herself as one of the most inventive women in music today.
by Thomas Blake
Jenny Sturgeon and Boo Hewerdine’s Outliers revels in the beauty of the remote. While conceived and recorded entirely online, it feels astonishingly close. The attention to detail and clarity of sound are incredible, and their contributions are clearly defined yet entirely in accord.
by Mike Davies
Willi Carlisle’s Critterland, an album steeped in and driven by contradictions, its fingers grubby with the dirt of real life in all its joy and despair, confirms him as a strikingly individual voice.
by David Pratt
On Suave Bruta, French-Colombian bassist Ëda Diaz delivers a refreshing new alt-pop sound, blending experimental electronica and traditional Afro-Columbian and Latin American rhythms.
by Mike Davies
Featuring Angeline Morrison, Nathan Ball and Pat McManus, Malcolm MacWatt’s ‘Dark Harvest’ is out now – “the sentiments that bolster this outstanding album will burn bright in the heart.”
by Fiona Banham
Adam Holmes’ ‘The Voice of Scotland’ is a rare treat as he departs from his own material and into the realms of traditional tunes; an exquisite tribute to those early influences. He has even more firmly established himself as one to watch on the folk scene in Scotland and beyond.
by David Pratt
Hirondelle, a collaborative project between The Brothers Gillespie, Trio Mythos and Provençal dialect polyphonic trio Tant Que Li Siam is a “project of roots and wings”. It thoroughly deserves not only to fly but to soar.
by Fiona Banham
Lauren Collier’s ‘Uddevalla’ is like nothing you have ever heard before. It sits at the confluence of exceptional talent, meticulous research, and pure imagination, and one cannot fail to be moved by the outstanding sensory experience she showcases here.
by Mike Davies
Matt Mitchell Music Co.’s latest album, Obvious Euphoria, is a pleasurable listen – a cocktail of rootsy Americana, crunchy blues and old school country.
by Bob Fish
The world and music of cabane is not simple, but the beauty of Brulée is undeniable. Four years on from Grande est la Maison, Belgian writer/composer Thomas Jean Henri has crafted another unimaginably beautiful volume of songs.