Album Reviews
Gintė Preisaitė :: Instruments of Forgetting and the Singing Bone
Electroacoustic, prepared piano, drone and fractured vocal collage
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
Tujiko Noriko :: PON
Experimental electronica, field recordings, voice and intimate grief
Album Reviews
Ruth Garbus :: Profound
Folk, electric piano, chamber pop and midlife clarity
Essays
Vicarious Nostalgia — Saudade, Mono no Aware, and the Words We Don’t Have
Viraha, huaigu, Sehnsucht and older vocabularies for unlived longing
Album Reviews
Cher1tide :: Girls Blue
Lo-fi dream pop, acoustic guitar, whispered vocals and pastoral haze
Essays
Hauntology in Music: The Ghosts of Lost Futures
Italian library music, RAI archives, lost television and spectral memory
Album Reviews
Seabuckthorn :: Never the Same River
Experimental folk, processed percussion, guitar and ritual atmosphere
Album Reviews
Sailing Stones :: Slow Magic
Psych folk, fingerstyle guitar, strings and matrescence
Album Reviews
Yoal :: Gloaming
Ambient folk, chamber textures, spoken word and transnational distance
Essays
Opening the Drawer: Linda Perhacs and the Lineage of the Lost Tape
Psych folk, lost tapes, rediscovered women and the afterlife of quiet records
Album Reviews
Andrew Wasylyk :: Irreparable Parables
Orchestrated art-folk, chamber jazz, strings and irreparable histories
Film Reviews
Robin Hardy :: The Wicker Man
Folk horror, pagan ritual, landscape and collective belief