Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Recent oblique folk moving through rooms, weather, distance and open ground.
Latest
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Ten 1970s folk songs moving through belief, weather, sorrow and dusk.
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms
Maisy Owen :: Interview
Maisy Owen on poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
Ambient folk reworks tracing twenty years of Mariska Baars’s songcraft.
Ambient Folk 1995-2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk, CD-R culture, free-folk networks and the rise of circulation
Julia Holter :: Materia
Experimental chamber pop, fretless bass, improvisation and slowed time
Hwael Field 01 :: The Country Between Songs
A 1970s folk sequence tracing shadow, stone, sea, fields and morning light.
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Experimental folk, field recordings, ritual textures and Staffordshire landscape
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman
BBC ghost story: railway haunting, signals, telegraphy and dread
Music for a Country Being Managed
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
Album Reviews
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
Hauntological ambient, field recordings, tape decay and edited rural memory
Album Reviews
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.
Album Reviews
L'Rain :: fata morgana
Experimental R&B, jazz, fractured pop and songs that refuse to settle
Album Reviews
Component #4 :: When a House Is Not a Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory
Film Reviews
Yuri Norstein :: Hedgehog in the Fog
Animated folk tale, fog, forest, fear and unstable perception
Album Reviews
Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou :: Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
Experimental ambient, field recordings, piano and porous soundscapes
Album Reviews
Phoebe Bridgers :: Lost Weekend
Ambient pop, borrowed melodies, disappearance inside a crowded record.
Album Reviews
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
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Grey Malkin :: Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss
Experimental folk, woodwinds, electronics and ritual body horror.
Essays
Ambient Folk Before 1995: The Rulebook That Never Existed
A prehistory built from recurrence, not one scene or lineage.
Album Reviews
Chelsea Wolfe :: The Dark
Gothic pop, dark folk, distortion, folklore and songs breached from within
Essays
The Country Between Programmes
British television, regional lives, lost plays and an accidental archive