Album Reviews
The Innocence Mission :: My Room in the Trees
Pastoral folk, hushed vocals, home recording and passing time
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
Juni Habel :: Evergreen In Your Mind
Pastoral folk, American primitive guitar, synths and classroom memory
Film Reviews
Terrence Malick :: Days of Heaven
Magic-hour cinema, migrant labour, impermanence and light as presence
Album Reviews
Dagmar Zuniga :: In Filth Your Mystery is Kingdom/Far Smile Peasant in Yellow Music
Ghost folk, Lo-fi folk, four-track tape, reversed vocals and magnetic decay
Essays
Edith Holden and the Year That Did Not Know It Was Vanishing
Nature writing, phenology, Edwardian landscapes and the discipline of attention
Album Reviews
Cate Kennan :: Shadows
Dream pop, lo-fi textures, synth haze and adolescent memory
Second Hearing
Vashti Bunyan :: Just Another Diamond Day
Folk, pastoral miniatures, acoustic textures and landscape as song
Album Reviews
Liana Flores :: Flower of the Soul
Folk bossa nova, chamber arrangements and British-Brazilian inheritance