Album Reviews
June McDoom :: Follow the Light
Folk and dub debut where a grandfather’s voice note sits under the harmony.
Folk
Folk on Hwael Mag: songs of voice and acoustic string, traditional and new — the root the pastoral, psych and ghost branches grow from.
Album Reviews
The Owl Service :: Tied to the Land
Psych folk: murder ballads slowed down by the slowcore of 1994.
Album Reviews
Bibio & Dorian Concept :: Answers
Electronica and folk by correspondence: two friends, one shared folder.
Album Reviews
The Reds, Pinks & Purples :: True Love Daydream
Three songs wander through a garden of unfinished memories.
Album Reviews
Rebecca Leivers :: Other Hands
Three acoustic songs introduce Rebecca Leivers’ solo work.
Album Reviews
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path
Folk blues, patient guitar playing and a quietly worn voice.
Album Reviews
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw :: Last of the Turnspit Dogs
Avant-folk miniatures where old melodies return as gestures of care.
Second Hearing
COB :: Spirit of Love
English acid folk heard as a private hymnal, from Cornwall to Japan.
Essays
Ambient Folk 2010–2026: The Tradition Supplies the Drone
Ambient Folk After 2010: Tradition, Platforms and the Drone
Essays
The Road Before the Sea: Ben Watt, 1981–83
Ben Watt’s folk-jazz beginnings, his five songs with Robert Wyatt
Album Reviews
Biita Houdei :: This Bed Was Made For Me
Psych folk shaped by home, weather, memory and hand-made time.
Second Hearing
Jackson C. Frank :: Jackson C. Frank
A 1965 folk album between its original sleeve and the stories told later.