Film Reviews
A sergeant lands on a pagan Scottish island and finds himself not the investigator but the sacrifice. The Wicker Man assembles its folklore from Frazer and Pinner — a film about a body given to the fire that legend says ends buried under a motorway.
Film Reviews
Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout (1971) films the Australian outback as a score — every rustle composed, not captured — until the desert becomes a voice. But the land it hands us is beautiful because it's been emptied: the same erasure as colonial landscape painting. Gift and trap in one gesture.
Album Reviews
Reissued into a lost classic, Parallelograms is usually sold as ahead-of-its-time psych-folk. The real key: Linda Perhacs has synaesthesia. She sees sound as moving shapes and colour, and her 1970 album is her attempt to notate it — a three-dimensional sound sculpture.
Album Reviews
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.
Essays
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.
Album Reviews
Fifteen years of Ichiko Aoba's music, captured live at Tokyo Opera City in January 2026. A concert that refuses spectacle and creates proximity instead — voice and guitar turning an immense hall intimate, and a fifteen-year continuity made suddenly audible.
Album Reviews
Fleeing the California fires, Barwick and Lattimore made Tragic Magic (2026) in nine days in Paris, on harps three centuries old — not an escape into enchantment but the beauty that keeps working after everything else has burned down.
Film Reviews
Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, revisited through Hwael Mag's lens: absence, pastoral dread, and a mystery that refuses resolution.
Album Reviews
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 Reviews
Virginia Astley's From Gardens Where We Feel Secure (1983): not a summer idyll but the consciousness of peace — the moment the sheltered know they're sheltered, and lose it. Beneath the sweetness, a hidden ditch she won't fill in.
Album Reviews
Nick Drake's Pink Moon (1972) is usually read as a depression record. But what lingers is the absence of drama — and a subtraction so total that its one exception, a single piano overdub, becomes its most famous moment. Voice and guitar, nothing else.
Album Reviews
Nearly a decade after Settlers, Western Skies Motel returns weathered and inward. The real subject of Trails is distance: a Dane's American West, imagined from the North and built in a Copenhagen studio — deserts remembered from films, a landscape loved but never lived in.