Album Reviews
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path
Folk blues, patient guitar playing and a quietly worn voice.
Singer-Songwriter
Reviews and essays on singer-songwriters: intimate, confessional songcraft carried by one voice and an instrument, from folk lineage to its quiet heirs.
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.
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.
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
Phoebe Bridgers :: Lost Weekend
Ambient pop, borrowed melodies, disappearance inside a crowded record.
Album Reviews
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
Album Reviews
Chelsea Wolfe :: The Dark
Gothic pop, dark folk, distortion, folklore and songs breached from within
Album Reviews
Elanor Moss :: The Knife, The Needle
Folk songwriting, tape flaws, family memory and unreliable stories
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
Album Reviews
Cinder Well :: A Blooming Body
Urban folk, piano, grief, brick, washing lines and landscape moving indoors