The stillness feels more like a cocoon than hibernation, and though no global pandemic or present politics premonition, the world today completely recontextualizes the music, making release delay serendipitous.
Tag: Dark Ambient
Tom Hall :: Failed Attempts at Silence (Superpang)
All compositions are steady and laid back, showcasing intermingling patterns of varied lifeform, all of which allow for a great sense of escapism directly through the headphones.
Fail & Hendekagon :: Rust (Adventurous Music)
These scorched and often blistered sandstorms are pulled together with a soundtrack-infused sheen, as if intentionally meant to rust and permanently damage itself along the way.
Day Before Us :: As My Spirit Wanders Free (Gradual Hate)
A distinctive body of heart-moving emotional soundscaping textures, crushing noisy drones of cathartic beauty, shrouded by a tremendous cinematic aura.
K-Chaos :: Traces EP (Onset Audio)
All manner of scorched dark beats and bass are ravaged on Traces and what lies just beneath the drum onslaught is a thin droning soundscape that is both eerie and brooding.
Michael Valentine West :: p23-6 (Kaer’Uiks)
With Michael Valentine West as our trail leader, these fragmented and fragile ambient/dreamlike sounds offer us the clarity and focus needed to energize and push us forward.
Scorn :: The Only Place (Ohm Resistance)
As drifting dandelion seeds float in the ether, the only place where one can find a cacophony of fractured drones, shimmering echoes, and sandblasted bass is right here in this wide open space that Scorn carves out for us.
Hilyard :: Division Cycle (Cryo Chamber)
Hilyard’s music navigates a convincing line between transportive space ambient, amorphous drones and processed field recordings that turn you in an intimate state of inner tranquility, mentally inducing a tranced-out posture.
Sleep Clinic :: Talus (Errorgrid)
Packed full of dense overlapping rhythms that they begin instead to bleed together into a wall of sound.
O C O S I “This Year’s Hex” — Video premiere
An emphasis on heavy, heavy beats supporting deep, shuddering bass and dark atmospherics. With the drums playing such a heavy role in these songs one […]
Francis Theberge :: Doom Jazz Variations EP (Adventurous Music)
Blending even darker field recordings and doom-infested ambient scraped propulsion, there are deeper textures, timbres and tones on this four-piece suite.














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