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Quick Takes – July 2025: Album Reviews

A handful of album releases from Margarita Witch Cult, Renaissance, Dropkick Murphys, Gwenno, Grace Hayhurst and a single from E.M.Kane

Renaissance’s 2001 studio album Tuscany is reissued in a superb new package with a great live concert recording.

Renaissance are still going strong with their highly orchestrated versions of familiar songs recorded on The Legacy Tour 2022 album.

Renaissance’s Azure d’Or is reissued in a very fine box set, that does full justice to an excellent album.

A 50th Anniversary, Ashes Are Burning – An Anthology, Live In Concert release to celebrate a landmark occasion for Renaissance.

We review three more books as the On Track authors plot the every album, every song output of Renaissance, Dire Straits and Kate Bush.