Album Reviews
Woodwose :: Woodwose
Psych folk, fuzz guitar, flute and intertwined female voices
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Essays
Raoul Vignal : The Places Were There All Along
Raoul Vignal, the English countryside critics hear, and the places behind it
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Hana Stretton :: tiarn
Ambient folk, field recordings, communal voices & absorbed memory
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Alan Clarke :: Penda’s Fen
Folk horror, sexuality, Englishness and a landscape that resists purity
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Sofie Birch :: Bivabippabualukka
Ambient folk, field recordings, bossa nova and unstable cartographies
Essays
Anemoia: The Nostalgia with No Cure
From a Swiss illness to a YouTube thumbnail: nostalgia without a home
Essays
The Drowned Villages of Britain
How British cities drowned valleys, and what the maps and droughts give back
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Shannon Lay :: Past The Veil
Folk, electronics, pop and songs left deliberately untidy
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Portland Vows :: Cuckoo
Ambient electronica, rural calendars and damaged seasonal memory
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The Durutti Column :: Renascent
Post-punk, fragile guitar, recovery and music rebuilt through other hands
Essays
The Soundscape of the Olive Grove: Listening to Puglia After Xylella
The sound of Salento’s olive groves, and who is left to record what remains
Essays
The Island That Sang Itself into Being
How the songs of The Wicker Man built an island and a tradition out of parts