20 exponents of blurred and blissed ambience, washed out synthwave and reverb-drenched electronica selected and strategically slung into a document of daze, a hymn to […]
Author: Alan Lockett
AUN :: Phantom Ghost (Denovali)
Phantom Ghost has about it a compelling elusive quality, as if evaporating when its solidity feels graspable; it seems to float, as if levitating, just above […]
Yann Novak :: Presence (Hibernate)
Presence operates in the inbetween between unresolved and resolution, flirting with the chill charms of the unpitched then back, finding refuge in more comfily pitched […]
BROKEN20 :: 3View
These three releases (10-20’s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20’s faculties very much intact in […]
Stormloop :: Snowbound* (Glacial Movements)
There are no great shifts to the glacial isolationist ambient paradigm here, but a consummate execution of a programmatic template. A little more than this, […]
Spheruleus :: Voyage (Hibernate)
What makes this Voyage, indeed our (listening) voyage, resonate is not the literal of the littoral, of dock to deck to descent, but the figurative […]
Bvdub :: I Remember (Translations of Mørketid) (Glacial Movements)
The sound apparently sweeping the new ambient nation is so anodyne; and that, unlike the likes of Lull or Aquadorsa, or indeed Netherworld, it chimes […]
Pausal :: Autumnal (Students of Decay)
Autumnal is a diptych of floating tableaux of wistful bucolica and gently heart-string tugging micro-symphonics created from a mélange of treated guitar and processed vinyl, […]