For Scottish folk musician Juliette Lemoine, the cello is not just a background instrument, filling in colour and texture to the sonic tapestry, it’s a protagonist in its own right, leading the melody the way a fiddle normally would. Her debut album, Soaring, is something of a manifesto for the cello, setting it free fromContinue reading “The Best Albums of 2023”
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The Best Songs of 2023
The general consensus seems to be that 2023 was a bit of an underrwhelming year for popular music. With no big, emerging new genres or breakthrough acts, few hits with much staying power, and the usual suspects topping the charts, a general sense of stagnation pervades. It’s surprising to me then that the majority ofContinue reading “The Best Songs of 2023”
Winter Highlights 2022-23
I’ve not been short of albums to review since I last posted. The last couple months of 2022 and the first few weeks of 2023 have seen some of the albums I’ve been anticipating for months, even years, released to great acclaim and excitement. But what I have been short of is time. And soContinue reading “Winter Highlights 2022-23”
Myriad Voices 