Album Reviews
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path
Folk blues, patient guitar playing and a quietly worn voice.
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
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw :: Last of the Turnspit Dogs
Avant-folk miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Essays
A Stone Without a Story
Flint: Where Folk Belief Placed the Power of the Stone
Album Reviews
Exsanguinated Roommate :: Fundamental Skills
Six songs for a ghost butler who can cross the house in the dark.
Album Reviews
Assistant :: Certain Memories
Indie pop on family, illness and the fragile work of remembering.
Album Reviews
Haroumi Hosono :: Yours Sincerely
Avant-pop miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Second Hearing
COB :: Spirit of Love
English acid folk heard as a private hymnal, from Cornwall to Japan.
Editions
Wychcombe
A novel by Antonio Martellotta. The drought summer of 1976.
Essays
Ambient Folk 2010–2026: The Tradition Supplies the Drone
Ambient Folk After 2010: Tradition, Platforms and the Drone
Essays
The Road Before the Sea: Ben Watt, 1981–83
Ben Watt’s folk-jazz beginnings, his five songs with Robert Wyatt
Film Reviews
John Mackenzie :: Red Shift
Love and violence recur across three eras in Cheshire.
Album Reviews
Biita Houdei :: This Bed Was Made For Me
Psych folk shaped by home, weather, memory and hand-made time.