Steadily holding the course upon reaching cruising altitude, co-pilots Loscil and Irisarri curate with aplomb what is proving to be the prime showcase for new […]
Tag: Ambient
Review: Pyongyang Plastics
Simon lives in the Hampshire countryside, enjoys car boot sales and cultivating his vegetable garden, and as an artist, is himself a kind of force […]
Krzsysztof Orluk & Bai Tian :: Structure of (Etalabel)
Krzsysztof Orluk & Bai Tian combine traditional and contemporary sounds into ambient structures. The eight pieces are based on bits and pieces constructed by Bai […]
Pausal :: Forms (Barge)
Forms rather takes their patented minimalist romanticism and overlays components more subtly suggestive of biotic patterns and cycles, setting up a fine balance—of experimentation and […]
Hanetration :: Torn Heat EP (Vulpiano)
As Torn Heat cascades its dynamic vision of a dreamlike state of being, it also gravitates towards a calming panoramic of isolated organic atmospheres that […]
Marconi Union :: Different Colours (Just Music)
With its sedative hypnotic pulses and lush layers of seductive electronics and evocative guitars, Different Colours will win over the hearts of ambient aficionados and […]
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: Bring Me The Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn (Low Point)
There seem to be more vertiginous twists, added dimensions, not deriving from textural or instrumental paradigm shift, more from long steeping in the same materials, […]
Treah Sektori :: Sorieh (Cyclic Law)
Soriehl delivers an outstanding and tumultuous collection of demonic-entrancing soundscapes made of deep sonorous synth waves, monochordal choir laments, isolationist detached guitar patterns, breathy murmuring […]
Celer :: Rags of Contentment (Dronarivm)
Ragas of calm, resignation to luscious ennui and irrepressible resolve. The record apparently brings to mind Nepal and Eno’s Discreet Music for Will Long, and […]
Displacer :: Foundation (Hymen)
A mixture of solids, liquids and opaque gases, each piece rattles effortlessly as a series of ingredients melt together in a fuzzy subatomic layer. Submerging […]















