Film Reviews
Nicolas Roeg :: Walkabout
Art cinema, Aboriginal sound, colonial vision and landscape as score
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.
Second Hearing
Linda Perhacs :: Parallelograms
Psych folk, synaesthesia, acoustic guitar and ecological listening
Album Reviews
Tomo Katsurada & Jonny Nash :: At the Emerald Pool
Ambient folk, pastoral, twin guitars, psychedelia and provisional dwelling
Essays
The Spectre in Broad Daylight — Italy's Other Hauntology
Italian library music, archive film and the daylight ghosts of modernity
Album Reviews
Ichiko Aoba :: 15th Anniversary Concert
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, live acoustics and shared stillness
Album Reviews
Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick :: Magic Tragic
Post-classical ambient, historical harps, vocal loops and wildfire aftermath
Film Reviews
Peter Weir :: Picnic at Hanging Rock
Folk horror, colonial order, liminal time and landscape as threshold
Album Reviews
Gia Margaret :: Singing
Folk pop, processed voice, trumpet and the recovery of song
Album Reviews
Virginia Astley :: From Gardens Where we Feel Secure
Pastoral ambient, field recordings, English gardens and concealed unease
Second Hearing
Nick Drake :: Pink Moon
Fingerstyle folk, open tunings, close vocals and radical subtraction
Album Reviews
Western Skies Motel :: Trails
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, post-rock tension and imagined Americana
Album Reviews
Gareth Dickson :: Orwell Court
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, reverb and faded post-punk memory