A soaring, self reflecting album filled with shivering ambient electronics and powerful resonances. Ambient blocks, cascading piano keys, emotional layers and an ebb and flow between […]
Tag: Ambient
Oubys :: SQM Part I (Testtoon)
An amalgamation of noise, drone, field recordings, dub techno and industrial memories. Vivid soundscapes are sculpted from subtle sounds and disheartening din. Testtoon Records has […]
Northcape :: Glasshouse EP (Sun Sea Sky)
Glasshouse is just that, a place where you’ll need to move about carefully to let the sound waves travel unfettered and undisturbed. Glasshouse by Northcape […]
Francisco López :: Presque Tout (Quiet Pieces: 1993-2013) (Line)
‘WARNING: Due to the extreme subtlety of these recordings, virtually all of the audio content is completely inaudible through laptop or equivalent small speakers. Quality […]
Nest :: Retold (Crowd-funded Vinyl Special Edition)
Back in 2007, when Huw Roberts’ Welsh-based Serein imprint was still essentially a digital-only operation, the label announced a new EP by Nest, consisting of […]
Ben Frost :: Aurora (Bedroom Community / Mute)
Aurora is filthy, like good sci-fi, and so it’s not for everybody. It certainly coddles, cradles, swaths the listener, but it does so in a briar […]
Teebs :: E S T A R A (Brainfeeder)
Naturally big on beats and bass, though refracted, after its founder’s off-kilter bent, driven less by boom-bap imperative than the diffusion of a heady vibe via tone color and harmonic motif.
Defrag :: Drown (Hymen)
Buried in high-pressure dub crumbles, gritty mechanical manifests and unwieldy sonic streams, Defrag is in top form as brooding—almost Subotnick like—synths float by mysteriously. With three […]