Album Reviews
Darren Hayman :: I’m Your Team
Pop elegy: Darren Hayman makes three discarded machines learn to stay.
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.
Album Reviews
June McDoom :: Follow the Light
Folk and dub debut where a grandfather’s voice note sits under the harmony.
Album Reviews
The Reds, Pinks & Purples :: True Love Daydream
Three songs wander through a garden of unfinished memories.
Essays
Kept in Japan
David Sylvian, Japan and who keeps a voice once its owner lets go.
Album Reviews
Rebecca Leivers :: Other Hands
Three acoustic songs introduce Rebecca Leivers’ solo work.
Album Reviews
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path
Folk blues, patient guitar playing and a quietly worn voice.
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.