Tag: Best of 2026

Trellis :: Field of Coincidence (Aural Canyon)

Field of Coincidence is the debut album documenting the collaboration between LA-based artists Jesse Perlstein (Sontag Shogun, AxOxH) and Michael Robert Chadwick (Fake Sword, Plum Professional), aka Trellis. Perhaps the perception of coincidence can serve as a link to folk psychology and philosophy as well as supernatural, occult, or paranormal claims, psychological reasoning, and the statistical probability of chance events.

Lusine :: Melting Days (Ghostly International)

Melting Days is constantly in motion—loops building, layers arriving and dissolving, rhythms surfacing and retreating, and that restlessness is what keeps it from becoming background music. It demands a kind of attention that most ambient records politely decline to ask for. Ten albums in, that quality hasn’t dulled. If anything it’s sharper.

Ocoeur :: Greener Grass, Clearer Water (n5MD)

Since first joining the n5MD roster in 2013, Zaragoza has consistently expanded the artistic possibilities of the Ocoeur project. Greener Grass, Clearer Water represents another significant step forward, demonstrating an artist increasingly comfortable allowing restraint, patience, and subtlety to become primary compositional tools.

V/A :: FSOLdigital Presents Mind Maps 7 (Touched Music)

Mind Maps 7 stands as another richly rewarding chapter in an extraordinary body of electronic music—one that continues to push gently at the boundaries of ambient, downtempo and sample-based composition without ever losing its sense of warmth or wonder. Long may these maps continue to unfold, pointing listeners towards the kind of electronic music that still feels capable of surprising, transporting and quietly reshaping the landscape around it.

Jessica Roch :: Human Music: Live Improvisations I (Past Inside the Present)

Human Music: Live Improvisations I serves as both a statement and a philosophy. What I hear is a collection of live performance recordings, each about 6-7 minutes long, one player/performer using layers and loop technology to play many instruments at once in a live setting, creating classical flavored music improvisations and instrumental expressions with haunting vocals that are entirely without word content, just emotional tones that bend and transmit.

LoMo :: 29526 (Neo Ouija)

29526 is a return under another name and, at the same time, a departure. LoMo delivers to Neo Ouija an album capable of conversing with the ambient techno tradition and with the more introspective sensibility of IDM, sustained by writing that is lucid, visionary and deeply musical.