Essays
The Bare Cross
Byzantine caves, forged histories, restored frescoes and layered memory
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Album Reviews
Jackdaw :: Larry Conklin & Jochen Blum
Fingerstyle folk, twelve-string guitar, violin and pastoral restraint
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Asuna :: Tide Ripples
Ambient folk, minimalist guitar, humming and long-form repetition
Film Reviews
Philip Ridley :: The Reflecting Skin
Folk horror, nuclear memory, translation and childhood mythmaking
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Maisy Owen :: Dark on a Sunny Day
Folk, fingerstyle guitar, Nashville unease and spectral Americana
Essays
The Sons of Pink Moon: Who Inherited Nick Drake's Hush
A 1999 car advert, and the musicians filed under Nick Drake after it.
Essays
Clay Pipe Music at Low Tide
Pastoral, electronica, library music, handmade records and lost places
Album Reviews
Scholars of the Peak :: The Seawatch Observatory Tapes
Ambient electronica, modular synths, field recordings and coastal observation
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Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra :: Tsuioku / 追憶
Ambient folk, cassette loops, guitar, strings and unstable memory
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Ana Roxanne :: Poem 1
Ambient, piano, exposed vocals and heartbreak after years of reverb
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Ann Annie :: El Prado
Pastoral folk, modern classical, field recordings and reclaimed identity
Essays
Cinico TV: Ciprì, Maresco and the Southern Hauntology of Palermo
Ciprì and Maresco's Palermo, a limewashed haunting with flesh, sweat and hunger.