Album Reviews
Blake Hornsby :: Brugmansia
Psych folk, fingerstyle guitar, field recordings and botanical unease
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
Grandma Love :: Grandma Love
Hauntological electronica, family tapes, VHS decay and inherited memory
Album Reviews
yadayn :: Huis
Post-folk, fingerstyle guitar, chamber textures and shifting rooms
Essays
No Place to Be: The Hidden Geography of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon
Nick Drake's lyrics, landscape, mortality and the Pink Moon suicide myth
Film Reviews
David Gladwell :: Requiem for a Village
Rural England, memory, burial and the maintenance of a disappearing village
Album Reviews
Cinder Well :: A Blooming Body
Urban folk, piano, grief, brick, washing lines and landscape moving indoors
Album Reviews
Emily Portman :: Dominion of Spells
Folk, fairy tales, female bodies and transformations under old vocabularies
Album Reviews
Shearwater :: The New World
Art rock, field recordings, ecology and the friction of global assembly
Album Reviews
Woodwose :: Woodwose
Psych folk, fuzz guitar, flute and intertwined female voices
Essays
Raoul Vignal : The Places Were There All Along
Fingerstyle folk, Lyon, Berlin and the hidden geographies behind the quiet
Album Reviews
Hana Stretton :: tiarn
Ambient folk, field recordings, communal voices & absorbed memory
Film Reviews
Alan Clarke :: Penda’s Fen
Folk horror, sexuality, Englishness and a landscape that resists purity