Fans of modern IDM and experimental music will love this, especially those fond of Autechre’s latest works. Find yourself a good dark place and turn […]
Tag: Dark Ambient
Hall of Mirrors :: When Only Shades Remain (Eibon)
When Only Shades Remain is one emotional story, beautifully sculpted and which alternates heavily wistful sequences with more melodious themes. Those enveloping tones, subtle echoing guitar […]
Ivan Shopov & Monolog :: Veracity EP (Subtrakt)
The careful trajectory of beats, bass, and slow-moving distortion keeps this EP in a surreal state of fluctuating beauty. Emulsified electronic debris, mutating, slow motion […]
Day Before Us :: Adorned Path Of Stillness (Twilight, GH Records)
‘Odd literature, ghostly presence, angelology’–things from which Philippe Blache claims inspiration for his ‘antipop-cinematic-nocturnal-melancholic soundscapes’ as Day Before Us; ‘solemn soundscaping ritualism, dada-esque hypnopedies and soundtracky ambiences,’ visible […]
Ugasanie :: Ice Breath Of Antarctica (Cryo Chamber)
Ice Breath Of Antarctica radically embraces the most visceral and abstract path of isolationist ambient minimalism with a collection of deep drone environmental pieces. Ugasanie […]
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo :: Meridian (DiN)
The soundscapes express peaceful, soothing, warm, and mellow passages dominated by a straight dialogue between evocative guitar sequences in a minimalist mood. Hypnotically fixed pulses […]
Atrium Carceri, Cities Last Broadcast, God Body Disconnect :: Miles To Midnight (Cryo Chamber)
Stylistically we are still wandering on the subterranean and cinematographic dark ambient territory but this collaborative album introduces a corpus of new elements taken from […]
Shedir :: Falling Time (Cyclic Law)
Beautifully crafted, fully emotional, spiritually entrancing, intimately moving, seducing, majestic, enveloping and alluring. When I think about female dark ambient artists and projects the first […]
First Rebirth :: Abyss Is Calling (Abstrakt Reflections)
A healthy dosage of soundtrack-driven, ritual-laden, and tangled ferocity, First Rebirth finds solace in dark electronic caverns. Abyss Is Calling yields an abstract refinement, curiously, […]
Gouldenberg :: First Expedition (Self-Released)
Soundscapes are constantly imaginative, chilling and menacing, mainly articulated on vintage synthesized-like textures, various electronic manipulations and catchy if not darkly moving melodies. Gouldenberg is […]
Subskan :: Ambidextrous Asylums (Hymen)
Ambidextrous Asylums performs the heroic celebration of industrial production—and then narrates its post-modern obliteration. An entire factory complex is crushed down into a single, blankly-blinking […]

















