Album Reviews
M G Boulter & Jenny Sturgeon :: Wild Convenor
Pastoral folk, close harmonies, lap steel and home-recorded intimacy.
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
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
Album Reviews
Shannon Lay :: Past The Veil
Folk, electronics, pop and songs left deliberately untidy
Album Reviews
LULUC :: Sweet Thief
Folk, fingerstyle guitar, quiet arrangements and contemporary unease
Album Reviews
Katherine Priddy :: These Frightening Machines
Contemporary folk, full-band arrangements, literary songs and quiet tension
Album Reviews
Ana Roxanne :: Poem 1
Ambient, piano, exposed vocals and heartbreak after years of reverb
Album Reviews
Ruth Garbus :: Profound
Folk, electric piano, chamber pop and midlife clarity
Album Reviews
Cher1tide :: Girls Blue
Lo-fi dream pop, acoustic guitar, whispered vocals and pastoral haze
Album Reviews
Ichiko Aoba :: 15th Anniversary Concert
Ambient folk, fingerstyle guitar, live acoustics and shared stillness