Essays
A Name Under the Record
An essay on attention, editorial risk and the human work of discovery.
Hwael Mag
Album Reviews
HUG :: HUG
Ambient folk of guitars, rain and frogs, where intimacy opens into distance.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Recent oblique folk moving through rooms, weather, distance and open ground.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Ten 1970s folk songs moving through belief, weather, sorrow and dusk.
Film Reviews
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
Album Reviews
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms
Interviews
Maisy Owen on Poetry, Distance and the Places That Stay
Maisy Owen on poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
Album Reviews
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
Ambient folk reworks tracing twenty years of Mariska Baars’s songcraft.
Essays
Ambient Folk 1995-2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk, CD-R culture, free-folk networks and the rise of circulation
Album Reviews
Julia Holter :: Materia
Experimental chamber pop, fretless bass, improvisation and slowed time
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 01 :: The Country Between Songs
A 1970s folk sequence tracing shadow, stone, sea, fields and morning light.
Album Reviews
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Experimental folk, field recordings, ritual textures and Staffordshire landscape