Album Reviews
From A Harbour Softly Drawn :: Shepherds
Ambient jazz: a summer of attic sessions with friends, resampled years later.
Ambient
Ambient music on Hwael Mag: drones, textures and slow sound — records made of atmosphere more than melody.
Album Reviews
Ian Hawgood :: all these places, together
Ambient on tape: Ian Hawgood gathers friends’ field recordings into one instance.
Essays
Windham Hill: The Making of a Listening Place
Essay on Windham Hill and the landscape a label built around its music.
Album Reviews
The Balloonist :: Spirit Duplicator
Revisits the schoolrooms and half-heard pop of an 80s childhood.
Album Reviews
morimoto naoki :: Kou
Minimal ambient shaped by light, repetition and everyday detail.
Essays
Music for a Country Being Managed
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
Album Reviews
Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou :: Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems
Experimental ambient, field recordings, piano and porous soundscapes
Album Reviews
Grandma Love :: Grandma Love
Hauntological electronica, family tapes, VHS decay and inherited memory
Album Reviews
Sofie Birch :: Bivabippabualukka
Ambient folk, field recordings, bossa nova and unstable cartographies
Album Reviews
The Durutti Column :: Renascent
Post-punk, fragile guitar, recovery and music rebuilt through other hands
Album Reviews
Hiraeth :: Kasteiung
Dark ambient, ritual noise, religious doubt and penitential landscapes
Essays
Grouper: Liz Harris and the Art of Absence
Ambient folk, lo-fi tape, buried vocals and threshold consciousness