Album Reviews
The Reds, Pinks & Purples :: True Love Daydream
Three songs wander through a garden of unfinished memories.
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.
Essays
Kept in Japan
David Sylvian, Japan and who keeps a voice once its owner lets go.
Album Reviews
Rebecca Leivers :: Other Hands
Three acoustic songs introduce Rebecca Leivers’ solo work.
Album Reviews
The Balloonist :: Spirit Duplicator
Revisits the schoolrooms and half-heard pop of an 80s childhood.
Album Reviews
Helen :: Linda's Head
Shoegaze pop, eleven years on: short songs facing a coast that isn't there.
Album Reviews
Heron & Crane :: Migrations
Pastoral Downtempo, Instrumental psych folk and dream travel.
Album Reviews
Songs of Green Pheasant :: Sings The Passing
Ambient folk, Pastoral fog, tape fragments and a buried brass band.
Album Reviews
Petridisch :: SP-404
Electronica and synthetic voice: Petridisch revisits nine years in seven tracks.
Film Reviews
Naomi Kawase :: The Mourning Forest
Drama on grief, care and the difficulty of following another person.
Album Reviews
Vanishing Twin :: Archives
Distance, collage, axe ballads, frog-women, dub, yé-yé, archives.
Film Reviews
Derek Lister :: The Ice House
Folk horror, cold hands and the country house’s machinery of preservation.
Interviews
The Music Stays Where It Is, Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe on Routine
Made in naptimes: Dungan and Carøe on Routine, Rita and a zither.