Film Reviews
Robert Eggers :: The Lighthouse
Maritime horror, labour, hierarchy and the forbidden machinery of light
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Album Reviews
Hiraeth :: Kasteiung
Dark ambient, ritual noise, religious doubt and penitential landscapes
Essays
The Students of United Bible Studies
United Bible Studies and the scene around a band with the door left open
Album Reviews
Charlotte Jacobs :: Word Passed the Time
Experimental electronics, spoken voice, memory and unstable architecture
Essays
Grouper: Liz Harris and the Art of Absence
What Grouper's records owe to the Gurdjieff teaching Liz Harris grew up in
Album Reviews
The Twelve Hour Foundation :: Expanded & Repurposed
Library music, analogue synths, broadcast idents and modernist nostalgia
Essays
Walkabout Soundtrack: The Country Beneath the Score
John Barry's Walkabout score, and what a European pastoral cannot hold
Essays
The Many Lives of The Unquiet Grave
A plain English ballad of grief, and its kin across Europe and the Atlantic
Album Reviews
The Green Kingdom :: Vespera
Ambient, piano, guitar, evening light and slow-moving memory
Film Reviews
Kaneto Shindō :: Onibaba
Folk horror, reeds, hunger, bodily erosion and postwar memory
Film Reviews
Andrej Tarkovskij :: The Mirror
Soviet cinema, memory, family, landscape and a house rebuilt from childhood
Album Reviews
The New Honey Shade :: Stillwater Rooms
Harp improvisation, room tone, overtones and photographic memory