Album Reviews
Sofie Birch :: Bivabippabualukka
Ambient folk, field recordings, bossa nova and unstable cartographies
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
Anemoia: The Nostalgia with No Cure
Synthetic memory, algorithms, retro culture and unlived pasts
Essays
The Drowned Villages of Britain
Reservoirs, municipal power, political geography and engineered forgetting
Album Reviews
Shannon Lay :: Past The Veil
Folk, electronics, pop and songs left deliberately untidy
Album Reviews
Portland Vows :: Cuckoo
Ambient electronica, rural calendars and damaged seasonal memory
Album Reviews
The Durutti Column :: Renascent
Post-punk, fragile guitar, recovery and music rebuilt through other hands
Essays
The Soundscape of the Olive Grove: Listening to Puglia After Xylella
Olive-grove soundscapes, Xylella, work songs and acoustic inheritance
Essays
The Island That Sang Itself into Being
Folk music, ritual, invented tradition and the acoustic state of Summerisle
Film Reviews
Robert Eggers :: The Lighthouse
Maritime horror, labour, hierarchy and the forbidden machinery of light
Album Reviews
Hiraeth :: Kasteiung
Dark ambient, ritual noise, religious doubt and penitential landscapes
Essays
The Students of United Bible Studies
Free folk, open membership, micro-labels and a transatlantic underground
Album Reviews
Charlotte Jacobs :: Word Passed the Time
Experimental electronics, spoken voice, memory and unstable architecture