Film Reviews
Derek Lister :: The Ice House
Folk horror, cold hands and the country house’s machinery of preservation.
Folk Horror
Where landscape stops being backdrop and starts remembering, and the music or the image doesn't explain the past but lets it surface unbroken, handled with the same caution you'd use on something that might not be finished yet.
Essays
A Stone Without a Story
Flint: Where Folk Belief Placed the Power of the Stone
Film Reviews
John Mackenzie :: Red Shift
Love and violence recur across three eras in Cheshire.
Album Reviews
Geology Disco :: Where God Came Never
Experimental folk, field recordings, ritual textures and Staffordshire landscape
Album Reviews
Grey Malkin :: Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss
Experimental folk, woodwinds, electronics and ritual body horror.
Essays
The Country Between Programmes
British television, regional lives, lost plays and an accidental archive
Film Reviews
David Gladwell :: Requiem for a Village
Rural England, memory, burial and the maintenance of a disappearing village
Album Reviews
Woodwose :: Woodwose
Psych folk, fuzz guitar, flute and intertwined female voices
Film Reviews
Alan Clarke :: Penda’s Fen
Folk horror, sexuality, Englishness and a landscape that resists purity
Essays
The Island That Sang Itself into Being
Folk music, ritual, invented tradition and the acoustic state of Summerisle
Film Reviews
Robin Hardy :: The Wicker Man
Folk horror, pagan ritual, landscape and collective belief