Essays
Ichiko Aoba and the Fifth Verse
Essay on Ichiko Aoba, Hateruma and who keeps an island song alive.
Ambient Folk
Ambient folk on Hwael Mag: acoustic song dissolved into drone and reverb — melody at the edge of atmosphere, in Grouper's lineage.
Album Reviews
Songs of Green Pheasant :: Sings The Passing
Ambient folk, Pastoral fog, tape fragments and a buried brass band.
Interviews
The Music Stays Where It Is, Jason Dungan and Johan Carøe on Routine
Made in naptimes: Dungan and Carøe on Routine, Rita and a zither.
Album Reviews
Assistant :: Certain Memories
Indie pop on family, illness and the fragile work of remembering.
Essays
Ambient Folk 2010–2026: The Tradition Supplies the Drone
Ambient Folk After 2010: Tradition, Platforms and the Drone
Album Reviews
Jason Dungan & Johan Carøe :: Routine
Ambient folk, zither, cello, tape and interrupted time
Album Reviews
HUG :: HUG
Ambient folk of guitars, rain and frogs, where intimacy opens into distance.
Album Reviews
Gilroy Mere :: Furlongs
Pastoral electronics, South Downs, Ravilious and train rhythms
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
Phoebe Bridgers :: Lost Weekend
Ambient pop, borrowed melodies, disappearance inside a crowded record.
Essays
Ambient Folk Before 1995: The Rulebook That Never Existed
A prehistory built from recurrence, not one scene or lineage.