PRISMA - In the Streets of London - The Arts Desk

There’s not a dud track here. A clever take on Ralph McTell’s “Streets of London” caught me unawares (despite the album's title) but had me giggling, and violist Soma Salat-Zakarias’s bass lines in the “Groud After the Scottish Humour” are punchy and sonorous. A sequence of five traditional Irish tunes brings the disc to an uproarious and uplifting conclusion, followed by some more whistling. This is a terrific collection, funny, moving and exciting by turns, a shoo-in for my end-of-year ‘Best of 2023’ list, and something to file alongside your Alehouse Sessions CDs. Trust me – it’s that good.