Album Review
Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash :: At the Emerald Pool
Tomo Katsurada and Jonny Nash trade guitar lines until the two players dissolve into one — a quiet dialogue built from a year of playing together.
Hwael Mag
Writings
The Spectre in Broad Daylight — Italy's Other Hauntology
There is an Italy's Other Hauntology that Reynolds never saw: not the black of the giallo and of Fulci, but the diurnal one, agrarian, luminous. Not the nightmare — the afternoon. Not blood — golden dust.
Film Review
Peter Weir :: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, revisited through Hwael Mag's lens: absence, pastoral dread, and a mystery that refuses resolution.
Album Review
Gia Margaret :: Singing
For Gia Margaret, singing was never the obvious thing: between There's Always Glimmer and now there's a damaged vocal cord, two instrumental albums born out of silence, a whole grammar of ambient built because the voice was missing.
Album Review
Cate Kennan :: Shadows
Cate Kennan writes and produces everything herself, and it shows: here, self-production is not a fallback but a poetics — a chosen poverty that leaves the seams visible.