Essays
Grouper: Liz Harris and the Art of Absence
Ambient folk, lo-fi tape, buried vocals and threshold consciousness
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
Composing the Void: Seven Voices Beside Grouper's
Ambient folk, buried vocals, tape decay and voices beyond language
Album Reviews
The Twelve Hour Foundation :: Expanded & Repurposed
Library music, analogue synths, broadcast idents and modernist nostalgia
Essays
Walkabout Soundtrack: The Country Beneath the Score
John Barry, pastoral scoring, colonial memory and an Australian soundscape
Essays
The Many Lives of The Unquiet Grave
Traditional ballad, grief, oral memory and songs carried across borders
Album Reviews
The Green Kingdom :: Vespera
Ambient, piano, guitar, evening light and slow-moving memory
Film Reviews
Kaneto Shindō :: Onibaba
Folk horror, reeds, hunger, bodily erosion and postwar memory
Film Reviews
Andrej Tarkovskij :: The Mirror
Soviet cinema, memory, family, landscape and a house rebuilt from childhood
Album Reviews
The New Honey Shade :: Stillwater Rooms
Harp improvisation, room tone, overtones and photographic memory
Album Reviews
LULUC :: Sweet Thief
Folk, fingerstyle guitar, quiet arrangements and contemporary unease
Album Reviews
Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan :: People & Industry (special edition)
Hauntological electronica, postwar modernism and unfinished futures
Essays
The Face that Keeps Growing Back
Folklore, medieval carvings, invented tradition and recurring green figures