The tenor of Understanding Holy Ghosts is warm, pacific, contemplative at first blush, but as it goes on, surfaces prove deceptive. More ghostly than holy elements […]
Tag: Ambient
Strom Noir / Spheruleus :: Morning (Audio Gourmet)
While Strom Noir deals with light, Spheruleus pieces are all about air, thick, a little clammy, redolent of pine needles and forest floor. A special […]
Ishome & Doyeq :: Double review (Fuselab)
Something exciting is going on in Russia. A new movement of young and talented artists is stirring up the electronic scene with fresh cutting edge […]
Cuttooth :: Cuttooth LP (4 Lux)
This self-titled sophomore outing is equal parts downtempo electronics and simmering inner-city echoes. A tangled hip-hop web shimmies into fragrant click-hop on Cuttooth‘s follow-up to […]
Philippe Petit :: Needles in Pain (Alrealon Musique)
Needles in Pain is a “symphony” for three turntables and an extra tone arm recorded in real time at the 2009 FIME festival in Portugal. Petit […]
Tzolk’in :: The Sixth Sun (Ant-Zen)
What’s left to digest is an utterly engaging rhythmic post-industrial pulse where layers upon layers of organically enriched electronics builds upon itself in an unconscious […]
Oliwa :: Naturalia (Twice Removed)
Naturalia is a brief album whose warm minimalism manages to recapture some of the thrill and strangeness felt upon hearing electronic music for the very first […]
Coppice Halifax :: Static Pharming (Milieu Music)
The second, third and fourth scrips in Coppice Halifax’ monthly, three-inch CDR series—Static Pharming—are here. The second, third and fourth scrips in Coppice Halifax’ monthly, […]
Boards Of Canada :: Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)
Tomorrow’s Harvest achieves a kind of re-route, as if seeking to achieve triptych, somewhere sequential with the psycho-ambient-chill of MHTRTC and the ambivalent wooze-out of […]
Aria Rostami :: Form (Audiobulb)
Expansive synth pads are brought to bear on catchy looped piano melodies conducive to the sort of nostalgic meditation perhaps most famously associated with Boards […]
6 & 8 :: City Plaintive (Xylem)
The challenging and singular sound textures offered by the duet intuitively explore the dark corners of our imagination, the mnemonic traces of the past, buried […]
















