Essays
Music for a Country Being Managed
How British library music and amateur tape clubs assigned sound to place
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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.
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M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
Album Reviews
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