Album Reviews
Virginia Astley :: From Gardens Where we Feel Secure
Pastoral ambient, field recordings, English gardens and concealed unease
Folk
Folk on Hwael Mag: songs of voice and acoustic string, traditional and new — the root the pastoral, psych and ghost branches grow from.
Second Hearing
Nick Drake :: Pink Moon
Fingerstyle folk, open tunings, close vocals and radical subtraction
Album Reviews
Gareth Dickson :: Orwell Court
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, reverb and faded post-punk memory
Album Reviews
The Innocence Mission :: My Room in the Trees
Pastoral folk, hushed vocals, home recording and passing time
Album Reviews
Juni Habel :: Evergreen In Your Mind
Pastoral folk, American primitive guitar, synths and classroom memory
Second Hearing
Vashti Bunyan :: Just Another Diamond Day
Folk, pastoral miniatures, acoustic textures and landscape as song
Album Reviews
Liana Flores :: Flower of the Soul
Folk bossa nova, chamber arrangements and British-Brazilian inheritance