Film Reviews
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
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
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms
Interviews
Maisy Owen on Poetry, Distance and the Places That Stay
Maisy Owen on poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
Album Reviews
soccer Committee :: AM Reworks
Ambient folk reworks tracing twenty years of Mariska Baars’s songcraft.
Essays
Ambient Folk 1995-2010: The Network Before the Scene
Ambient folk, CD-R culture, free-folk networks and the rise of circulation
Album Reviews
Julia Holter :: Materia
Experimental chamber pop, fretless bass, improvisation and slowed time
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 01 :: The Country Between Songs
A 1970s folk sequence tracing shadow, stone, sea, fields and morning light.
Album Reviews
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Experimental folk, field recordings, ritual textures and Staffordshire landscape
Film Reviews
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman
BBC ghost story: railway haunting, signals, telegraphy and dread
Essays
Music for a Country Being Managed
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
Album Reviews
Micron Fields :: Medieval Tape Muzak
Hauntological ambient, field recordings, tape decay and edited rural memory
Album Reviews
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.