Essays
Ambient Folk 2010–2026: The Tradition Supplies the Drone
Ambient Folk After 2010: Tradition, Platforms and the Drone
Latest
Essays
The Road Before the Sea: Ben Watt, 1981–83
Ben Watt's North Marine Drive and the coast it only knows by report
Film Reviews
John Mackenzie :: Red Shift
Love and violence recur across three eras in Cheshire.
Album Reviews
Biita Houdei :: This Bed Was Made For Me
Psych folk shaped by home, weather, memory and hand-made time.
Second Hearing
Jackson C. Frank :: Jackson C. Frank
A 1965 folk album between its original sleeve and the stories told later.
Album Reviews
Deniz Cuylan :: For Luca
Ambient folk of guitar, winds and memory, shaped around Luca.
Album Reviews
morimoto naoki :: Kou
Minimal ambient shaped by light, repetition and everyday detail.
Album Reviews
Sairie :: Beneath the Spreading Tree
Old folk materials, arrangements with something left unsettled.
Album Reviews
Ella Rae Cole :: Rocky Creek
Acoustic folk, fingerstyle guitar, Montana landscapes and family memory.
Film Reviews
Colin Cant :: The Children of Green Knowe
A flooded house, family ghosts and an English winter.
Album Reviews
Jason Dungan & Johan Carøe :: Routine
Ambient folk, zither, cello, tape and interrupted time
Essays
A Name Under the Record
The Tonearm, Bandcamp's margin and what it costs to choose a record