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.
Tag: Polar Seas
Clara Engel & Bradley Sean Alexander :: Ghost Bird (Polar Seas)
Pieces are shrouded in a gleaming and delicately evocative foggy atmosphere. The airy touching ambient folkish dimension of this album tends to adopt wistful sentimental […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2020
“In the midst of a global pandemic that has dominated 2020—roaming across a cinematic soundscape in flux, and surveying darker, perhaps stranger chasms—(artists) draw inspiration […]
Elsewhereness revisited #19 soundsfromlockdown
Elsewhereness revisited is an occasional feature documenting the drift at the margins: ambient gasbagging and blurb blather, ’tube-d, ’cloud-ed ’n’ ’camp-ed up, with accompanying mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Elsewhereness revisited #18 music for distancing
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, along with new companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited […]
Hakobune :: Solitude (Polar Seas)
Hakobune’s musical signatures operates a cross between discrete soundscape and process music, freely floating and structured around electronic devices. A restful soundscaping reverie Takahiro Yorifuji […]
Elsewhereness revisited #17 cabinfeverdreams
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 companion mix, Elsewhereness revisited #17. […]
Elsewhereness revisited #16 new age of isolationism
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 […]