Film Reviews
Philip Ridley :: The Reflecting Skin
Folk horror, nuclear memory, translation and childhood mythmaking
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
Maisy Owen :: Dark on a Sunny Day
Folk, fingerstyle guitar, Nashville unease and spectral Americana
Essays
The Sons of Pink Moon: Who Inherited Nick Drake's Hush
Fingerstyle folk, quiet voices, lost records and acoustic restraint
Essays
Clay Pipe Music at Low Tide
Pastoral, electronica, library music, handmade records and lost places
Album Reviews
Scholars of the Peak :: The Seawatch Observatory Tapes
Ambient electronica, modular synths, field recordings and coastal observation
Album Reviews
Tokyo Bedroom Orchestra :: Tsuioku / 追憶
Ambient folk, cassette loops, guitar, strings and unstable memory
Album Reviews
Ana Roxanne :: Poem 1
Ambient, piano, exposed vocals and heartbreak after years of reverb
Album Reviews
Ann Annie :: El Prado
Pastoral folk, modern classical, field recordings and reclaimed identity
Essays
Cinico Tv: La Scialbia
Italian television, Palermo, satire and a southern hauntology of matter
Album Reviews
Sylvain Chauveau :: The Complexity of the Simple
Post-classical minimalism, acoustic guitar, silence and Japanese aesthetics
Album Reviews
Cajupitanga :: Ubā (2019-2024)
Ambient folk, field recordings, acoustic guitar and rural memory
Album Reviews
Richard Bundy & Anna Phoebe :: From the Edge
Post-classical, field recordings, strings and coastal acoustics