Album Reviews
Western Skies Motel :: Trails
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, post-rock tension and imagined Americana
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Gareth Dickson :: Orwell Court
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, reverb and faded post-punk memory
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The Innocence Mission :: My Room in the Trees
Pastoral folk, hushed vocals, home recording and passing time
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Juni Habel :: Evergreen In Your Mind
Pastoral folk, American primitive guitar, synths and classroom memory
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Terrence Malick :: Days of Heaven
Magic-hour cinema, migrant labour, impermanence and light as presence
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Dagmar Zuniga :: In Filth Your Mystery is Kingdom/Far Smile Peasant in Yellow Music
Ghost folk, Lo-fi folk, four-track tape, reversed vocals and magnetic decay
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Edith Holden and the Year That Did Not Know It Was Vanishing
Nature writing, phenology, Edwardian landscapes and the discipline of attention
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Cate Kennan :: Shadows
Dream pop, lo-fi textures, synth haze and adolescent memory
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Vashti Bunyan :: Just Another Diamond Day
Folk, pastoral miniatures, acoustic textures and landscape as song
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Liana Flores :: Flower of the Soul
Folk bossa nova, chamber arrangements and British-Brazilian inheritance