Oi Va Voi aren’t the first band to mine inspiration from the seam where Hungarian folk and Jewish Klezmer music meet. If you ever wished that Gogol Bordello could allow space for the sadness of their songs to flourish – or that Beirut could lay off the preppy self-regard – the fourth album by this band is an almighty tonic, its impact compounded by Steve Levi’s autumnal clarinet, Bridgette Amofah’s keening dispatches and an elegant procession of intelligent, multilayered arrangements.
(Oi Va Voi, TS £11.74)