“Amadou & Mariam have lost no faith in the communal power of music”
“The long-married Malian duo confronts the country’s upheavals with an album of shimmering Afro-pop that urges hope and offers uplift.”
“It’s difficult to think of a couple who’ve been making music together for the best part of four decades, and even harder to think of any who, on their ninth studio album, are still attracting as much attention as Amadou and Mariam. The Malian duo have, over the years, been embraced by the likes of Damon Albarn (perhaps inevitably), but also a greater audience in the West as their huge profile has ”