Album Reviews
liana flores :: And so it Goes...
Bossa nova, folk and art pop moving from private rooms into social life.
Pastoral
Pastoral on Hwael Mag: hedgerow songs, field and season — the landscape sung, English and beyond.
Album Reviews
Component #4 :: When a House Is Not a Home
Pastoral electronica, dream pop, organ and badly catalogued memory
Album Reviews
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
Essays
Ambient Folk Before 1995: The Rulebook That Never Existed
A prehistory built from recurrence, not one scene or lineage.
Album Reviews
Elanor Moss :: The Knife, The Needle
Folk songwriting, tape flaws, family memory and unreliable stories
Album Reviews
Maya Ongaku :: Nothing Space Music
Japanese ambient folk, Rhodes, field recordings and coastal stillness
Album Reviews
Blake Hornsby :: Brugmansia
Psych folk, fingerstyle guitar, field recordings and botanical unease
Album Reviews
yadayn :: Huis
Post-folk, fingerstyle guitar, chamber textures and shifting rooms
Essays
No Place to Be: The Hidden Geography of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon
Nick Drake's lyrics, landscape, mortality and the Pink Moon suicide myth
Film Reviews
David Gladwell :: Requiem for a Village
Rural England, memory, burial and the maintenance of a disappearing village
Album Reviews
Cinder Well :: A Blooming Body
Urban folk, piano, grief, brick, washing lines and landscape moving indoors
Album Reviews
Emily Portman :: Dominion of Spells
Folk, fairy tales, female bodies and transformations under old vocabularies