Album Review | Glitterbeat | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 With guitarist Leo Abrahams leading this project, the ten highly inventive instrumental pieces are a showcase of freedom and experimentation, which traverses light and shade in ever changing mood patterns.  Fusing together Abrahams’ classical background with Martin France’s jazz sensibilities, the potential for … Continue reading Krononaut – Krononaut

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 In times like these, when socialising in numbers is not only frowned upon but actively discouraged, isolation becoming the norm, it’s good for the soul to be given the opportunity to think about the importance of home and to be presented with … Continue reading Paul Armfield – Domestic

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 5/5 York-based Joshua Burnell’s career gathers momentum with this latest self-penned collection of songs.  Already established as an extraordinary live act with his six-piece band, the singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is proving himself a major player on the current folk and acoustic music … Continue reading Joshua Burnell – Flowers Where the Horses Sleep

Album Review | Singular Recordings | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 3/5 The lines that map out the life of the woman who dominates the front cover shot of Justin Wells’ second album The United State, indicates a life well lived and one immediately suspects, a life lived through thick and thin, ups and … Continue reading Justin Wells – The United State

Album Review | MVKA | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 When the Toronto-based singer songwriter Suzie Ungerleider, otherwise known as Oh Susanna, first released her second album Sleepy Little Sailor back in January 2001, the new Millennium was still in its infancy and the current popular music of the day was dominated by … Continue reading Oh Susanna – Sleepy Little Sailor

Album Review | CRAFT Pop | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 It was with sadness that we heard of the passing of Eliza Jaye earlier this year after putting up a fairly good scrap with cancer.  The Sydney-born singer and musician covered some considerable ground during her short life, notably a stint playing … Continue reading Eliza Jaye – Middle Child

Album Review | Self Release | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 One of the joys of floating around the periphery of the music scene, masquerading as an informed music scribe, is those rarest of occasions when a songwriter sits down to perform a brand new song for your ears only, rendered in its … Continue reading Annie Dressner – Coffee at the Corner Bar

Album Review | Bongo Joe Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 This timely reissue of Pedro Lima’s much sought after classic Maguidala, features just four tracks, running at just over thirty minutes, yet there’s a sense of fulfillment and completeness in that half hour.  Despite having been recorded and first released back … Continue reading Pedro Lima – Maguidala

Album Review | Tyree Records | Review by Allan Wilkinson | Stars: 4/5 After sixteen years on the road it seems only right to release a live album, especially now, and especially one that focuses on the cities, towns and villages in their own neck of the woods.  Skerryvore is a band that was made … Continue reading Skerryvore – Live Across Scotland