The Best Albums of 2023

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”

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”