FAMP is first and foremost subtle, superior ambient music, its soft fluorocarbon texture the perfect backdrop for its liberal toying with vocal samples. Wouldn’t you […]
Tag: Drone
Zvuku :: Remnant (Heat Death / Futuresequence)
Crowdfunding feels like the future for the smaller boutique label. Here we find two UK based labels joining forces to seek funding for a 180g […]
Algebra Suicide / Los Microwaves :: Double review (Dark Entries)
Whereas Algebra Suicide employed drum machines to create a laconic monologue, Los Microwaves used electronic equipment to drive experimentation. Two disparate LPs exploring different avenues […]
4PLAY :: Multi-review for Aquarelle, Ekin Fil, Secret Pyramid, John Davis (Students of Decay)
Below are considered and passing thoughts on four submissions from Alex Cobb‘s ever-diligent Students of Decay (previously on igloomag here and here). Two recent: an update […]
Grzegorz Bojanek :: Constraints (Etalabel)
A powerful and deeply emotionally charged album that gives a large part to semi-improvised minimalist-wandering like patterns for acoustic strings, rumbling bass lines beautifully sustained […]
Michiru Aoyama :: 音は光る (The Sound Is Shining) (Organic Industries)
In these eight striking miniatures, he illuminates that meaning for us by melding, in the Zen spirit of forerunner John Cage, artifice, nature and technology. […]
Matt Robertson :: Forecast (Cartesian Binary)
These quaint harmonious pieces vanish and reappear, rarely over-saturating the senses, and offer pristine vantage points where ambient, electronic and faded drones intersect without notice. […]
The volume settings folder :: Sketches from Afar (Self-Release)
Sketches from Afar is strongly introspective and spiritually melancholic dronescaping release which admits some lovely dreaming arrangements. The volume settings folder is an adventurous and devotional […]
Orla Wren :: Book of the Folded Forest (Home Normal)
When label curator Ian Hawgood was sounded out by electroacoustic nomad Wren a couple of years ago about releasing his latest opus, it meant fulfillment […]
Pillowdiver :: Bloody Oath (Dronarivm)
Bloody Oath exacts prolonged vengeance on pop music by taking a handful of chart hits by Australian acts and stretching, layering and generally obfuscating any trace […]
















