Experimental Electronic Music
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Keeping us cozy with sincere, surreal, and sublime tunes, nineteen selections shift across many genres and styles, each artist articulates their sound so effortlessly, it’s an essential listening experience.
Elder Dawn dips and dives through a kaleidoscope of color to warm the winter months ahead.
A calm set of aural vistas drenched with reverberant and blissful low-frequency strands that all mesh together.
Overall, The Vinyl Loop is a breath of fresh air as it brings the ambient genre into an area that is specific; not too esoteric, but not too beat-heavy. It all seems deliberate and balanced in my ears.
A spellbinding collection that spins its mystical fabric of fragmented miniatures as far as the eye and mind can see and imagine.
4T Thieves continues to outdo himself; recombining tethered and wilted soundscapes into blissful ambient-electronic forages.
Buzzing synths evaporate as broken beats flood the senses; it’s a mesmerizing and hypnotizing collection of ambient electronic flutter for the next plateau.
