Album Reviews
Sairie :: Beneath the Spreading Tree
Old folk materials, arrangements with something left unsettled.
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
Ella Rae Cole :: Rocky Creek
Acoustic folk, fingerstyle guitar, Montana landscapes and family memory.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 03 :: The Rooms Beyond the Field
Recent oblique folk moving through rooms, weather, distance and open ground.
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 02 :: The Long Grass at Dusk
Ten 1970s folk songs moving through belief, weather, sorrow and dusk.
Interviews
Maisy Owen on Poetry, Distance and the Places That Stay
Maisy Owen on poetry, distance, Nashville, folk and the places that remain.
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
Hwael Field
Hwael Field 01 :: The Country Between Songs
A 1970s folk sequence tracing shadow, stone, sea, fields and morning light.
Album Reviews
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.
Album Reviews
Grey Malkin :: Our Eyes Are Filled With Moss
Experimental folk, woodwinds, electronics and ritual body horror.
Essays
Ambient Folk Before 1995: The Rulebook That Never Existed
A prehistory built from recurrence, not one scene or lineage.
Album Reviews
Chelsea Wolfe :: The Dark
Gothic pop, dark folk, distortion, folklore and songs breached from within