Album Reviews
From A Harbour Softly Drawn :: Shepherds
Ambient jazz: a summer of attic sessions with friends, resampled years later.
2026
Everything Hwael Mag published in 2026: album and film reviews, essays and long-form writing on hauntology, ambient and pastoral sound — gathered by the year.
Album Reviews
Polonius :: Anaxia (Original Soundtrack)
Film score and cassette fantasy: Polonius builds Razooli’s Oskexis out of tape.
Album Reviews
Darren Hayman :: I’m Your Team
Pop elegy: Darren Hayman makes three discarded machines learn to stay.
Film Reviews
Athina Rachel Tsangari :: Harvest
Folk western on enclosure: a village that keeps its borders in the body.
Album Reviews
devonwho :: tv2
Drumless electronica: devonwho lets arpeggios do the work of the beat.
Essays
Ichiko Aoba and the Fifth Verse
Essay on Ichiko Aoba, Hateruma and who keeps an island song alive.
Film Reviews
Vittorio De Seta :: The Lost World (1954-1959)
Documentary shorts on southern labour, song and sea, Italy 1954–59.
Album Reviews
Ian Hawgood :: all these places, together
Ambient on tape: Ian Hawgood gathers friends’ field recordings into one instance.
Album Reviews
June McDoom :: Follow the Light
Folk and dub debut where a grandfather’s voice note sits under the harmony.
Album Reviews
The Owl Service :: Tied to the Land
Psych folk: murder ballads slowed down by the slowcore of 1994.
Album Reviews
Bibio & Dorian Concept :: Answers
Electronica and folk by correspondence: two friends, one shared folder.
Essays
Windham Hill: The Making of a Listening Place
Essay on Windham Hill and the landscape a label built around its music.