Experimental Electronic Music
These murals could just as easily be on the outside of a large city block, or sequestered inside of a dimly lit jazz café where modal post-bop has mutated into tranquil harmonic abstractions that hover like smoke above the tables of a transfixed clientele.
The 3d release from Less Bells invites the listener on a tour of deep time, wind mountain villages, secret caverns and Victorian parlors.
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
The grounds are vast and somber, the groundskeeper has unlimited access to the universe of the night, rich keyboard-string intonations, slow dark moods, atmospheric with rare moments…
