Film Reviews
Naomi Kawase :: The Mourning Forest
Drama on grief, care and the difficulty of following another person.
Latest
Album Reviews
Vanishing Twin :: Archives
Distance, collage, axe ballads, frog-women, dub, yé-yé, archives.
Film Reviews
Derek Lister :: The Ice House
Folk horror, cold hands and the country house’s machinery of preservation.
Interviews
The Music Stays Where It Is, Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe on Routine
Made in naptimes: Dungan and Carøe on Routine, Rita and a zither.
Album Reviews
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path
Folk blues, patient guitar playing and a quietly worn voice.
Album Reviews
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw :: Last of the Turnspit Dogs
Avant-folk miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Essays
A Stone Without a Story
Flint: Where Folk Belief Placed the Power of the Stone
Album Reviews
Exsanguinated Roommate :: Fundamental Skills
Six songs for a ghost butler who can cross the house in the dark.
Album Reviews
Assistant :: Certain Memories
Indie pop on family, illness and the fragile work of remembering.
Album Reviews
Haroumi Hosono :: Yours Sincerely
Avant-pop miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Second Hearing
COB :: Spirit of Love
English acid folk heard as a private hymnal, from Cornwall to Japan.
Editions
Wychcombe
A novel by Antonio Martellotta. The drought summer of 1976.