Album Reviews
Petridisch :: SP-404
Electronica and synthetic voice: Petridisch revisits nine years in seven tracks.
Hauntology
Hauntology on Hwael Mag: music and film haunted by lost futures — Ghost Box, tape decay and the ghosts in the machine.
Film Reviews
Derek Lister :: The Ice House
Folk horror, cold hands and the country house’s machinery of preservation.
Editions
Wychcombe
A novel by Antonio Martellotta. The drought summer of 1976.
Film Reviews
John Mackenzie :: Red Shift
Love and violence recur across three eras in Cheshire.
Film Reviews
Colin Cant :: The Children of Green Knowe
A flooded house, family ghosts and an English winter.
Film Reviews
Lawrence Gordon Clark :: The Signalman
BBC ghost story: railway haunting, signals, telegraphy and dread
Essays
Music for a Country Being Managed
Public films, library music, tape clubs and Britain’s managed landscape
Album Reviews
Component #4 :: When a House Is Not a Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory
Essays
The Country Between Programmes
British television, regional lives, lost plays and an accidental archive
Album Reviews
Grandma Love :: Grandma Love
Hauntological electronica, family tapes, VHS decay and inherited memory
Film Reviews
David Gladwell :: Requiem for a Village
Rural England, memory, burial and the maintenance of a disappearing village
Album Reviews
Hana Stretton :: tiarn
Ambient folk, field recordings, communal voices & absorbed memory