Experimental Electronic Music
Kin is a record that offers hazy soundscapes, with layers of noise stacked on top of serene melodies, making it almost seem like a series of distant tunes you can’t quite recall. There’s a faint melancholy woven through it, sure—but that’s not what keeps pulling me back. What really hooks me are the songs themselves; track by track, they’re just exceptional.
Highlighting hundreds of releases in 2024 (and allowing December to set in), we’ve compiled a list of our favorites along with links to their corresponding Igloo reviews and release pages. Since the lists are arranged alphabetically by artist—and a snapshot of tracks are featured in our Soundcloud playlist along with selected Bandcamp tracks and random artwork selections—there are, as usual, no winners or runners-up.
Mosaic is yet another valid addition to Fennesz’s already spotless catalog. Among the many ambient records I’ve heard this year, Fennesz thankfully reminds us of what ambient music can be when it is done in an original way, rather than offering the usual pulp of clean synth pads with some string arrangements.
Venice is an album that continues to work extremely well, even after 20 years. The combination of lighter-sounding loops with sounds that are more distorted results in a complexity of tone and texture as this remastered version emphasizes.
Overall, this release is a necessary reminder that we have gotten too far away from the intended, natural, human experience.
In a creative response to the challenge of the day, 20 new and exclusive tracks by Touch label artists will be made available over the […]
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with new […]
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blah, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed, ‘n’ ’camp-ed up, complete with companion mix, Elsewhereness […]
This Viennese slice explores possible worlds contained within computer and guitar, vast reverberant spaces, textural simulacra of the elemental metastasizing through the sound field to immersive […]
9 years on, Spectrum Spools presents a pristine vinyl cut with reimagined album art, physical copies including a download card and three rare tracks from […]
Igloo Magazine is delighted to treat its readers with a very special mix from the innovative duo Piano Interrupted (Tom Hodge and Franz Kirmann). Just […]
