Music blog

My music reviews are mostly written for The Quietus. They cover alternative music and unclassifiable strangeness in many forms, including folk, psychedelia, electronics, sound installations, smallpipes, drone viola and Gaelic free heterophony.

Burnt Harbors – Blood High Star 

Lisa Kohl – Various Small Whistles and a Song

Leo Chadburn – Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator

Monasunne – Fields Become Sky

Karman Line Collective – To Be

Lullahush – Ithaca

Richard Dawson – End of the Middle

Moundabout – Goat Skull Table

Parchman Prison Prayer: Another Mississippi Morning

Saint Etienne – The Night

Alice Hebborn – Saisons

Cahill Costello – Cahill/Costello II

Félicia Atkinson – Space is an Instrument

Pietu Arvola – Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas

Krononaut – Krononaut II

Clevelode – Muntjac

Kate Carr – Midsummer, London

Beings – There Is A Garden

Jacken Elswyth – At Fargrounds

Erland Albertsen Basspace – Name of the Wind

Raoul Eden – Incarnation

Saramaccan Sound – Where the River Bends is Only the Beginning

John Francis Flynn – Look Over the Wall, See the Sky

Bas Jan – Back to the Swamp

You Are Wolf – hare // hunter // moth // ghost (2023)

Natasha Barrett – Reconfiguring the Landscape (2023)

Maija Sofia – True Love (2023)

Flaer – Preludes (2023)

The Clientele – I Am Not There Anymore (2023)

One More Grain – Modern Music (2023)

Laura Cannell and various artists – Echolocation: Resonate From Here (2023)

Brìdghe Chaimbeul – Carry Them With Us (2023)

Marlene Ribeiro – Toque No Sol (2023)

Eliza Carthy and the Restitution – Queen of the Whirl (2022)

Alison Cotton – The Portrait You Painted of Me (2022)

William William Rodgers Sings the Yellow Pages (2022)

Duncan Marquiss – Wires Turned Sideways in Time (2022)