2021-12-24 |
92 |
Dronny Darko |
"Xanthe Terra" |
Quasi |
Pull up your mask. You are responsible for how you change the air, |
2021-11-19 |
85 |
Tomás Urquieta |
"Oblivion" |
El David Muerte |
is that it describes things that have not yet happened to us together. |
2021-11-19 |
86 |
Dahlia's Tear |
"Tomb of Forgotten Times" |
Adrift on the Edge of Infinity |
Loneliness is a line on a map that describes a potential relationship in symbols by becoming them. |
2021-10-22 |
119 |
bliss3three |
"MIRROR's GUIDE" |
MIRROR's GUIDE +1 |
This is how a noise can explain that we are infinitely suspended, |
2021-10-22 |
120 |
Kcin |
"The Hushings - Ambient Edition" |
single |
and cannot fall, |
2021-10-01 |
79 |
Dodsferd |
"Aeon" |
single |
Do not just stand here waiting to be exterminated by the next recommended meteor. |
2021-10-01 |
80 |
Earlyguard |
"Natural Selection" |
Distracted |
Insist on being shown its trajectory through space. |
2021-10-01 |
81 |
Abstract Void |
"Forward to the Past" |
Wishdream |
Assign it an orbit so that you can find it later, if you need a jagged chunk of space rock, or a way to blast a hole into oblivion. |
2021-09-17 |
49 |
KAGAMI Smile |
"Drifting Snow" |
Transitory Heart |
It matters that you move, and how, |
2021-09-17 |
68 |
Erland Cooper |
"But Still Will Keep a Bower Quiet for Us" |
single |
that they have just discovered you and everything you know, |
2021-09-10 |
88 |
Lawrence English |
"The Torso" |
Observation of Breath |
We have long had the technology to romanticize emptiness, |
2021-09-03 |
61 |
EOR |
"Oodaaq 1978" |
single |
We write quiet histories of loud times, |
2021-07-09 |
75 |
William Tyler |
"Memory Garden" |
Understand 4 |
and then, in what passes loudly for quiet, just space |
2021-07-09 |
77 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"MONOLITH" |
RUINS |
and then whatever debris our convulsive collective dreams left behind last night. |
2021-05-28 |
60 |
Mansur |
"Daedalus" |
Minotaurus |
even after we have sent our children falling naked from the sky into the sea. |
2021-05-28 |
61 |
Paco Salazar |
"Gumd24" |
Friday |
We move across the world |
2021-03-19 |
30 |
Soularflair |
"Enemedia" |
single |
and ominous Australian dronescape |
2021-03-19 |
31 |
Dronny Darko |
"Anomalous Gravity Distortion" |
Radioactive Immersion |
is vast, |
2021-03-19 |
32 |
Antαres |
"Hyperion Proto-Supercluster" |
single |
but we spin at the same speed under any stipulated expanse of void. |
2021-03-12 |
73 |
Alessandro Cortini |
"CHIAROSCURO" |
single |
Our spinning blood resets us, |
2021-03-05 |
54 |
Thisquietarmy |
"New Normal x No Future" |
Compendium: 2005-2020 |
For seven minutes, let the roar of that truth fill you. |
2021-02-19 |
90 |
Desolate Horizons |
"The Unique Beauty of Noiselessness" |
single |
Some of the cities don't have a hill. |
2021-01-15 |
19 |
Mork |
"Arv" |
single |
be a constant ambient vibration along the lengths of each of our bones, |
2020-11-27 |
88 |
Erland Cooper |
"Cairn V." |
Landform |
until the inevitable and tragic days they fall. |
2020-10-16 |
68 |
Loscil |
"Black Tusk Descent" |
coast/range/arc// |
a river you were carried over, |
2020-10-16 |
69 |
Dahlia's Tear |
"The Cedar Forest" |
Descendants of the Moon |
a river you tried to sell before you bought it, |
2020-10-02 |
82 |
BRIQUEVILLE |
"Akte VIII" |
Quelle |
grander in our ambition, |
2020-09-04 |
75 |
Lau Nau |
"Ixodida" |
single |
feeling for the potential difference between seem and seam. |
2020-07-31 |
65 |
The Psychedelic Furs |
"Wrong Train" |
Made of Rain |
waiting for our own mistakes to again take precedence over ambient terror, |
2020-07-24 |
14 |
Sophie Cates |
"crowd" |
single |
and emotional preconceptions to their ambient maximums, |
2020-07-10 |
90 |
Julianna Barwick |
"Nod" |
Healing Is A Miracle |
now they are gone, and you may choose new ones. |
2020-07-10 |
91 |
KTL |
"Silver Lining" |
VII |
Every terrible moment is a detent between continuing times. |
2020-07-03 |
87 |
Max Cooper |
"Swarm" |
single |
every open space looks like a good place for a new cemetary. |
2020-07-03 |
88 |
Robert Scott Thompson |
"Suspended in Stasis" |
single |
Take the statues, leave the gravestones. |
2020-06-26 |
88 |
Robert Scott Thompson |
"Teardrops and the Holding Pattern" |
Teardrops and the Holding Pattern +1 |
posed against expedient backgrounds, |
2020-06-19 |
94 |
Shackleton |
"Primal Drones" |
single |
when you understand that time in its natural form never runs out, but you bought yours, and the only bits of time for sale are the ones that no longer flow. |
2020-06-05 |
68 |
Colin Stetson |
"Forest Fire" |
Barkskins (National Geographic Original Series Soundtrack) |
If you cannot grasp why we have to say "Black Lives Matter" aloud, louder, at this historical moment, |
2020-06-05 |
70 |
Caustic Reverie |
"Cathedral Dust" |
The Flooded Assembly |
We are not immune, we are not chosen or blessed. |
2020-06-05 |
72 |
Sinius |
"Items Disappearing" |
The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces 4 |
have to say that Black lives matter because if one neck doesn't matter, |
2020-05-01 |
75 |
Philip Glass |
"Two Pages" |
single |
Today's rules may still apply tomorrow, |
2020-05-01 |
76 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"ARK" |
single |
we may still need to spend another day in these slow time-arks paddling barely forward, |
2020-04-17 |
73 |
Pjusk |
"IO" |
Spinn 3 |
Breathe in the ones where this is when we found collective conscience, |
2020-04-17 |
74 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Refuge/Refuse" |
single |
conscious collectivism, rational resolve, |
2020-04-17 |
75 |
Yair Elazar Glotman |
"Procession" |
single |
global citizenship, genetic self-awareness, |
2020-04-17 |
76 |
Plyci |
"Spr30" |
Tannau 4 |
compassion, perspective, |
2020-04-17 |
77 |
Thisquietarmy |
"Kraftwerk" |
Kesselhaus |
and enough noise to forever banish silence. |
2020-04-03 |
81 |
XERXES THE DARK |
"The Hiding" |
single |
all of them but one, |
2020-04-03 |
82 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"DEVOTION" |
single |
not soon enough, but sooner than you can admit. |
2020-03-27 |
81 |
Earlyguard |
"Always Unfinished" |
single |
We may get to touch strangers again, |
2020-03-20 |
86 |
Leaaves |
"Hospital Dream" |
We are Beginning to Look Like our Fathers / We are Learning to Love Like our Mothers |
We are given our tenuous alveoli |
2020-03-20 |
87 |
NERATERRÆ |
"Virtues of the Dawn" |
Scenes from the Sublime |
and a satchel of miscellaneous powders compounded for other purposes, |
2020-03-06 |
87 |
Sinius |
"Ectenic Force" |
Etheric Revenants |
maybe we can agree to demand better qualities from our leaders in the future. |
2020-03-06 |
88 |
Hilary Woods |
"The Mouth" |
single |
If we can wash our hands for 20 seconds, |
2020-03-06 |
89 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Arduous Clarity" |
single |
singing a thousand different verses to ourselves, |
2020-03-06 |
90 |
Ian William Craig |
"Comma" |
single |
maybe when the chorus comes, |
2020-02-21 |
1 |
Lyndsie Alguire |
"Demeter Weeping" |
The Horizon Kisses You Til There's Nothing Left |
This is the breath that you have been holding your breath for. |
2020-02-14 |
76 |
Tiny Leaves |
"Siba" |
single |
We will not be remembered, |
2020-02-07 |
78 |
Earlyguard |
"Introvert" |
Simplicity |
You're going to say the wrong thing sometimes, that's how talking works if you do it outside of your head. |
2020-01-24 |
46 |
Emptyset |
"Sepal" |
single |
The seas rise; |
2020-01-24 |
47 |
Alphaxone |
"Dusk Wings" |
Shadows of Forgotten Legends |
imagine how much work it would have been to lift all that water with buckets. |
2020-01-17 |
1 |
Alphaxone |
"Frozen Light" |
Dystopian Gate |
Sometimes you open your eyes in darkness |
2019-11-29 |
54 |
Oto Hiax |
"Dapple" |
Two |
We do not need to resolve the frequency of celestial hum |
2019-11-22 |
43 |
protoU |
"The Escape" |
Anomalies |
which is only to say that every doom is alike, |
2019-10-18 |
66 |
Erinome |
"Low Priest, Pt. 2" |
Low Priest |
Ambient brutalism is a rarely-aquired taste. |
2019-10-11 |
38 |
Shrine |
"Gaia" |
Quintessence |
And although you can't always be right, |
2019-10-04 |
58 |
Emptyset |
"Blade" |
single |
"In a sense," Time corrects us, "only the immortal are subject to erosion." |
2019-08-30 |
59 |
Sam Rosenthal |
"Blood on the Snow I (feat. Nick Shadow & Steve Roach)" |
The Gesture of History |
slow to realize that everything we were waiting for has passed, |
2019-08-30 |
64 |
Matt Borghi |
"Eternity Before You" |
The Still Guardian |
The best truces are soaring averages of the disembodied and the uncontainable. |
2019-07-19 |
68 |
Aleksi Perälä |
"FI3AC1927010" |
Presence |
You dream that the edge will cut our voices into silence, |
2019-07-12 |
51 |
Puce Mary |
"An Exploitative Version of Surrogacy" |
An Exploitative Version of Surrogacy +1 |
Take a few minutes to think about this air, where it has been, |
2019-06-28 |
3 |
Haiku Salut |
"Traction" |
single |
and indeed the low quality of ambient human certainty seems consistent with compensation inadequate to cover its costs. |
2019-06-21 |
58 |
Black To Comm |
"Eden-Olympia" |
single |
until all of that excitingly explodes. |
2019-06-21 |
59 |
Holy Similaun |
"Apeous" |
Hegenrax 4 |
We are inhabitants of solvent atmospheres, |
2019-06-21 |
60 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Decay Waves" |
Solastalgia |
dissolving undulatingly, |
2019-06-21 |
61 |
Siavash Amini |
"A Recollection Of The Disappeared" |
single |
asserting absent outlines |
2019-06-21 |
62 |
Blank Embrace |
"Ocean of Voices" |
Daydream Harmony |
of things we can now claim to have been |
2019-06-21 |
63 |
Erinome |
"Remnant I" |
single |
without responsibility or price. |
2019-05-24 |
39 |
Ajna |
"Spökeöverföring" |
Further Intrusion 4 |
We don't need a wall, we need a Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary between meatheadedness and actual humanity. |
2019-05-10 |
35 |
Ketiov |
"Kindness" |
King Of Hypocrisy |
they beckon to places unevenly, |
2019-05-10 |
37 |
Alphaxone |
"Reverse Echoes" |
Chronosphere |
or slice through the edges of pesticided and hoarded lawns that should have been stewarded as shared ground. |
2019-05-10 |
46 |
Earlyguard |
"Nonkonform" |
single |
Your breaths are unmetered, |
2019-05-03 |
49 |
Aske |
"Dissonant Deep Space" |
Dissonant Deep Space |
You're allowed to wish that cheap food were better for you. |
2019-05-03 |
50 |
Paula Temple |
"Berlin" |
Edge Of Everything |
You're allowed to wish unity were easier, |
2019-05-03 |
51 |
Petrels |
"Halls of Los" |
single |
or our colony ships were faster, |
2019-04-26 |
73 |
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement |
"The Mountain Didn't Want To Be Cut And The Mountain Fought Back Part 2 (Fever Waits Inside The Concrete Canal Locks)" |
Panama Canal Left-Hand Path |
The darkness can't stop shivering |
2019-04-26 |
74 |
Monocube |
"Sehnsucht" |
Substratum |
until you wrap it in your arms. |
2019-03-08 |
75 |
Troum |
"Droneuary LXIX - Bhereg" |
single |
We have our own textural relics |
2019-03-08 |
76 |
Flowers for Bodysnatchers |
"Looking for Bernard Herrmann" |
Alive with Scars |
and rumored absences of breath, |
2019-03-01 |
104 |
Ancestral Voices |
"Prithvi" |
Navagraha |
These roads run to oblivion, |
2019-02-22 |
57 |
Ugasanie |
"80t-54'08.8n 49t-51'38.3e" |
Arctic Gates |
and infinite. |
2019-02-08 |
63 |
Max Corbacho |
"The Invisible Embrace" |
single |
Oh. Hmm. |
2019-01-25 |
35 |
Colin Stetson |
"The Rain Like Curses" |
single |
and gradient descent. |
2018-12-28 |
19 |
4lienetic |
"Changing" |
Inure |
but to cultivate an ecology in which transgressions are selected for their eventual restorative value, |
2018-12-28 |
24 |
ASC |
"Chaos" |
Trans-Neptunian Objects 2 |
All of our structures are self-defeating translations of the void. |
2018-12-28 |
29 |
Treha Sektori |
"The Sense of Dust and Sheer" |
The Sense of Dust and Sheer |
But then, maybe this is even an inherence of language. |
2018-12-28 |
30 |
Shrine |
"Ora Dagger" |
Celestial Fire |
The world ends not in fire but in darkness; |
2018-12-28 |
31 |
Satori |
"Succour" |
Dispossession |
fire is the normal state. |
2018-12-28 |
32 |
Otavan Veret |
"IV" |
Syvys |
We consume ourselves by existing. |
2018-12-07 |
52 |
amiinA |
"Unicorn" |
Discovery |
"amiina" is a quiet Icelandic acoustic-ambient band. "amiinA" is a twee Japanese electropop group. Nobody has taken "Amiina" yet. |
2018-11-09 |
68 |
Alphaxone |
"Unveiling the Script" |
Aftermath |
Imagine the line you trace through orbital space, and then think about how the space feels. |
2018-11-09 |
69 |
Shibalba |
"La Ra" |
single |
We whirl through it over and over, and yet it never gets less empty. |
2018-11-02 |
41 |
Eternell |
"Inner Song" |
Still Light |
but for one night, watching numbers not fail to count up to the decisive figure, |
2018-10-26 |
22 |
Hotel Neon |
"Side A, Pt. 1" |
Inward |
Superficiality is an angle of view, not a quality of always-solid matter. |
2018-10-12 |
71 |
Coph Nia |
"Untitled I" |
The Tree of Life and Death |
and in both cases the questions are now essentially the same: |
2018-10-12 |
72 |
Thisquietarmy |
"Cometh" |
The Body and the Earth |
- can we agree that this is bad? |
2018-10-12 |
89 |
Ancst |
"Clandestine Path" |
Celestial |
Does anything we can share sound to you like what it sounds like inside of your head? |
2018-08-10 |
19 |
Earlyguard |
"Latitude" |
Concept of Freedom |
even when you feel like the impressions they have left behind, |
2018-08-10 |
20 |
Simon Scott |
"Grace" |
single |
even when you breathe, |
2018-08-10 |
21 |
Poemme |
"At the Gates of Dawn" |
Moments in Golden Light |
especially when you breathe with your eyes open |
2018-08-10 |
22 |
Stray Ghost |
"Solace (Music for Nennad)" |
single |
and your heart. |
2018-06-29 |
34 |
Elijah Bisbee |
"(S)" |
I S O L A T I O N (S) |
or hold any single variable constant for long enough to record its value. |
2018-06-29 |
54 |
Council of Nine |
"Red Alert" |
Exit Earth |
or a centrifuge of clarity. |
2018-06-29 |
58 |
Hannah Peel |
"Particle G1" |
Particles In Space |
and thus whether they matter. |
2018-06-08 |
29 |
Bengalfuel |
"One" |
Montrose |
the graceful retreat of the air from your touch, |
2018-06-08 |
30 |
Earlyguard |
"Somnia" |
single |
and how it will shimmer as it returns to the space you fill when you relinqiush it; |
2018-06-08 |
31 |
Colin Stetson |
"Funeral" |
Hereditary |
how numbers hum when left to themselves; |
2018-06-08 |
32 |
Max Cooper |
"Hope" |
Hope +1 |
whatever essence it is that, a drop at a time, suffuses everything with hope. |
2018-05-25 |
25 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"Once There Was Only Dark" |
single |
And yet at night, in a large enough open space, Texas and Australia and the moon are all the same. |
2018-05-25 |
63 |
Yui Onodera |
"Substrate 3" |
Substrate / The Garden |
I need to know what it feels like in Tokyo at night when I'm not there, how they miss me but persevere. |
2018-05-18 |
22 |
Makeup And Vanity Set |
"Valentine" |
Pris 5 |
but so that things that seem irresistible can be postponed |
2018-05-18 |
23 |
JOYFULTALK |
"Monocult" |
single |
long enough for you to appreciate the impulse for resistance. |
2018-05-18 |
24 |
Bengalfuel |
"Beach" |
single |
It is normal to want quiet |
2018-05-18 |
25 |
Hammock |
"The Night You Caught on Fire" |
The Night You Caught on Fire +1 |
in order to fill it with noise. |
2018-05-11 |
32 |
Fennesz |
"Tom" |
Station One 2 |
but tiny changes matter, |
2018-05-11 |
33 |
Balmorhea |
"Chime" |
Chime / Shone 2 |
little is enough, |
2018-05-11 |
34 |
Árstíðir |
"Entangled" |
single |
moral empires are nano-accumulations of hyper-narrow victories, |
2018-04-27 |
18 |
Warmth |
"Convex" |
Parallel |
The bridge exists as much for the water's sake as ours, |
2018-04-27 |
19 |
Max Würden |
"Initial Condition" |
Momentum |
if you listen to what water thinks. |
2018-04-27 |
60 |
Visions |
"Monad" |
Monad +3 |
and at the same times its heirs, |
2018-04-20 |
9 |
Brian Eno |
"Kazakhstan - Edit" |
single |
one way to not yet stop breathing, |
2018-04-20 |
10 |
Konntinent |
"Grasp of Math" |
All Lines Lead In |
one impractical system to stubbornly employ, |
2018-04-13 |
42 |
Saåad |
"Offline Migrations" |
Présence absente |
where you will marshal your heartbeats, |
2018-04-13 |
77 |
Taphephobia |
"Watching the Storm Crows" |
Ghostwood |
and "what if this is where we return at the end?" |
2018-04-13 |
82 |
Aske |
"Drivende Tanke" |
Spent Legeme |
We have all this empty space, what can it fill? |
2018-04-06 |
6 |
Wonders of Nature |
"Devils Tower" |
Mysterious Peaks |
or disowned in abstraction, |
2018-04-06 |
15 |
Christina Vantzou |
"Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space" |
No. 4 |
to find out how emptiness talks about the rest of us |
2018-04-06 |
87 |
Earlyguard |
"Strangers" |
Synthesis |
This is when we can take time for yearning gradients that do not vanish over an event horizon. |
2018-03-23 |
57 |
Ugasanie |
"In Antarctic Night" |
Ice Breath of Antarctica |
more patient than you. |
2018-03-16 |
14 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Downfall" |
Sirimiri |
All art either opens or closes wounds, |
2018-03-16 |
16 |
Rival Consoles |
"Untravel" |
single |
or between new realms constituted on the fly for exactly this obscure purpose. |
2018-02-23 |
19 |
Mattia Cupelli |
"Farewell" |
Farewell // Iteration 2 |
patiently wordlessly arguing for outliving this quiet moment and then this one until it starts seeming like a pattern. |
2017-12-15 |
30 |
Wonders of Nature |
"To the Tops of the Hills" |
Solitariness |
as they all used to be, |
2017-12-15 |
36 |
Hakobune |
"Undulate" |
single |
It means, like tool-use always means, that you're trying to accomplish something. |
2017-11-24 |
15 |
Antonymes |
"Sleep" |
At This Time of Year 4 |
and that therefore potentially humans can exist in the moral space between worldviews, |
2017-11-24 |
23 |
Jeremiah Pena |
"Inaudible Shimmer and the Associated Construction" |
From Mountains and Sky |
And the reason they stopped attacking is that we stopped fearing that they would. |
2017-11-17 |
16 |
Benoît Pioulard |
"Compound, Echo" |
Slow Spark, Soft Spoke |
The days you think you have won clearly will blur. |
2017-11-17 |
17 |
Good Weather For An Airstrike |
"Every Day's New" |
Little Steps |
All your declared wars will be subsumed in peace. |
2017-11-17 |
18 |
Slow Meadow |
"Boy in a Water Globe" |
Costero |
Your defeat will finally be the one thing to fit you perfectly. |
2017-10-06 |
21 |
Alessandro Cortini |
"Iniziare" |
AVANTI |
We are founded on principles of illusory return, |
2017-10-06 |
22 |
Last Japan |
"Teflon" |
Exhale / Teflon 2 |
on the solvent erroneous empowering conviction that we have solved these problems before, |
2017-09-22 |
30 |
Balmorhea |
"Clear Language" |
Clear Language |
Storms pass, the need for resources of calm does not. |
2017-09-22 |
31 |
Aaron Martin |
"Risen, Darkened" |
Hymn Binding |
Nor the needs for water, and walls where there are holes that used to be walls. |
2017-09-22 |
32 |
Secret Pyramid |
"Touch" |
Two Shadows Collide |
Arecibo survived. |
2017-09-22 |
69 |
This Patch of Sky |
"Under Vermilion Cliffs" |
These Small Spaces |
evasive interstices, |
2017-09-15 |
33 |
Ben Frost |
"Ionia" |
single |
oblique torments, |
2017-09-15 |
34 |
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
"To Feel Your Best" |
single |
amorphous attachments, |
2017-09-15 |
35 |
Bvdub |
"Limitless" |
Heartless |
elusive infinities, |
2017-09-01 |
58 |
Atrium Carceri |
"Prepare the Stage of Night" |
Black Corner Den |
You need not choose this life. |
2017-08-25 |
29 |
Rafael Anton Irisarri |
"Indefinite Fields" |
The Shameless Years |
or too much empty space to carry it through. |
2017-08-25 |
30 |
Vatican Shadow |
"Luxor Necropolitics" |
Luxor Necropolitics |
The void watches us dance with robots and wants a turn. |
2017-08-25 |
31 |
Alessandro Cortini |
"Perdonare" |
single |
It is no more immune to desire than we are. |
2017-08-25 |
32 |
Balmorhea |
"Sky Could Undress - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma" |
single |
Rhetorics are poetics are erotics. |
2017-08-25 |
33 |
Hammock |
"Now and Not Yet" |
Mysterium |
Time flows over skin. |
2017-08-04 |
15 |
Bengalfuel |
"Ancient Vessels" |
Woglum / Feldspar |
Maybe by morning, the past will be different. |
2017-07-28 |
29 |
Golden Retriever |
"Pelagic Tremor" |
Rotations |
A piano will not quite float, |
2017-07-28 |
61 |
Odd Nosdam |
"LIF" |
LIF |
The guitars can have solos without us; |
2017-07-21 |
56 |
Ancient Ocean |
"Titan's Island" |
single |
You may choose to share that equilibrium if you counterpose your fears to produce it. |
2017-07-14 |
31 |
Machinefabriek |
"Fight Score" |
Fight Score +1 |
They defend moments against being subsumed in time. |
2017-07-14 |
32 |
Hammock |
"Mysterium" |
single |
The very concept of a moment is technology. |
2017-07-14 |
33 |
Hilyard |
"Ataraxia" |
Suspension |
Deliberate constructed serenity is the definitive human act. |
2017-07-14 |
34 |
Bengalfuel |
"Bleed" |
Amdurer / Lertora |
Joy leaks out of the cracks that form when you accept and deny dizzy inevitability at the same time. |
2017-07-14 |
43 |
Kai Engel |
"Soli" |
Caeli |
and silhouetted tableaus of ritual panic. |
2017-06-23 |
7 |
BardSpec |
"Fire Tongue (Radio Edit)" |
single |
On warm, clear days, even endless dark-ambient albums can have singles. |
2017-06-23 |
9 |
Sannhet |
"Way Out" |
single |
On cool, shrouded nights, even doom-metal bands can play elegant dark-ambient atmospherics. |
2017-06-23 |
20 |
Hammock |
"Things of Beauty Burn" |
single |
Any tranquility is fundamentally an act of imagination. |
2017-06-23 |
21 |
Roedelius |
"On the Fly" |
Einfluss |
Cosmology and mortality render all calm defiant, |
2017-06-16 |
37 |
Siavash Amini |
"Face On The Sand" |
TAR |
or an asteroid belt.) |
2017-06-16 |
39 |
Slow Dancing Society |
"Overture" |
I. Lilac Lullabies 5 |
some are designed to produce noises first, and then you decide. |
2017-06-02 |
67 |
Noctilucant |
"Letting Go of All Hope" |
Crumbling Cities Echoing Their Terror |
Listen to their weird noises HOW ARE THESE EVEN SONGS? |
2017-05-05 |
35 |
Smoky |
"China Purple" |
single |
It is not intended to keep a single terrorist from leaving Yemen, it is intended to recruit millions of people with their own bizarre and half-thought-through plans to join us. |
2017-05-05 |
46 |
Ancestral Voices |
"Revelation" |
Divination |
Did you know that some people eat slices of pizza with a fork and knife? Did you know that in some cultures it's considered undignified to use stairs instead of escalators, or to read books? |
2017-04-07 |
41 |
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement |
"They Dropped the Stone in the Harbour but Overnight It Returned, So Finally They Left It Here." |
Water Witches |
We were here before, |
2017-03-31 |
43 |
Billow Observatory |
"Vex" |
II: Plains/Patterns |
The case against love is that isolation protects you from loss, |
2017-03-03 |
69 |
Peter Bjärgö |
"You Let the Light Shine Through" |
Animus Retinentia |
To the planet, all of these noises are "ambient". |
2017-02-17 |
20 |
Lawrence English |
"Hard Rain" |
Cruel Optimism |
Permanence. Impermanence. |
2017-02-17 |
21 |
Clark |
"Peak Magnetic" |
single |
Light years. |
2017-02-17 |
22 |
Colin Stetson |
"Spindrift" |
single |
Telescopes, emotional and otherwise. |
2017-02-17 |
23 |
Valgeir Sigurðsson |
"Raindamage" |
Raindamage |
The moments when ice discovers mercy. |
2017-02-17 |
24 |
Arovane |
"Lifecycle" |
Organism |
Active noise-cancellation by using other noises, louder. |
2017-02-17 |
25 |
Helm |
"Don't Lick The Jacket - Version" |
Rawabet |
Frantic injunctions against things you hadn't considered. |
2017-02-17 |
34 |
Batu |
"Murmur" |
Murmur EP 3 |
Understanding that mechanism began as rigidity and regularity, but has long since morphed into the calculus of responsive curvature. |
2017-02-17 |
35 |
Visible Cloaks |
"Screen" |
Reassemblage |
Understanding that synthesis is the definition of freedom. |
2017-02-10 |
30 |
Lawrence English |
"Somnambulist" |
single |
It doesn't work that way. |
2016-12-09 |
15 |
Ulver |
"In a Wooden Coat" |
Riverhead |
sublimations of panic, |
2016-12-09 |
53 |
MonoInput |
"Timeline of Tomorrows World" |
Handpicked |
Sit for a minute in one of the empty spaces they have passed through. |
2016-10-28 |
7 |
Urfaust |
"Meditatum III" |
Empty Space Meditation |
Ambient metal is very definitely a thing. It's a thing that's probably too metal for most ambient fans, and too ambient for most metal fans, but abandoned interstices are just less crowded. |
2016-10-28 |
60 |
Shrine |
"The Burden of Knowledge" |
Ordeal 26.04.86 |
None of which means, of course, that it doesn't have a way it sounds when we're not filling it with traffic. |
2016-10-21 |
30 |
Murmur |
"Labirynth (Chapter 1)" |
Murmur 3 |
Study music for contemplating the void. |
2016-10-21 |
59 |
Radere |
"I Can't Sleep" |
I Can't Sleep, I Can't Wake Up |
Unrelaxable between-state ambient-noise. |
2016-10-21 |
60 |
William Ryan Fritch |
"Recoiled" |
Ill Tides |
Slow-morph flux-ambient texturescapism. |
2016-10-21 |
61 |
Casino Versus Japan |
"Swimming, Thawing" |
Frozen Geometry |
Sentimental isolation-tank echolocation. |
2016-10-14 |
41 |
Ian Hawgood |
"One Day Winter" |
Snow Roads |
and then it's suddenly blast-quiet. |
2016-09-23 |
26 |
Murcof |
"China Gates" |
Statea |
This is possible because different jazz lovers discover different jazz, and as a person you can fly across the country to a music conference and listen to a guy in a suit tell you that machines break and art is immortal, but you can't walk the surfaces of the earth finding every other person who likes the same sort of music you do and get them to tell you everything else they know. |
2016-09-23 |
27 |
Petrels |
"Seithenyn Sleeps" |
Jörð |
But the machines, patiently unconfounded, can do this, exactly and exhaustively. |
2016-09-23 |
31 |
FIS |
"Root Collars" |
From Patterns to Details |
At the soul of the plaintive line about marketing is the truth that you do not qualify for a minimum wage by virtue of a DistroKid upload. |
2016-09-23 |
33 |
Shahead Mostafafar |
"The Hum - GFOL" |
Hypnagogia |
We are trying to build systems in which music flows from its creator to its receptive audience. |
2016-09-16 |
33 |
Outer Space |
"Quartz Synthesizer" |
Outer Space |
There's also a little in-game feature which, as of my week in Stockholm, tells you which creatures may or may not be within some unspecified radius of you right now, but gives you no clue as to how far or which direction. |
2016-09-16 |
34 |
Ehnahre |
"The First Eye" |
Nothing and Nothingness 2 |
So, periodically but not nearly as often as I see Tauroses at home, the gangly silhouette of Mr. Mime would appear in the corner of my screen, and I would gamely try to quickly triangulate to figure out where he was. "Was". |
2016-09-16 |
38 |
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
"Closed Circuit" |
FRKWYS Vol. 13: Sunergy |
But he never appeared. |
2016-09-16 |
79 |
Fourteen Nights At Sea |
"Acres" |
Acres / No Capital 3 |
"They have giant urban reconstruction projects that keep you from getting to where you're going in the way you anticipated." |
2016-09-16 |
83 |
Coph Nia |
"Temple of the Cores" |
Erotomechaniks II |
"But look, here's the thing. It's too hard to hold a gym in a well-trafficked area for more than a few minutes, and once you get much past level 20 it takes exponentially more experience-points to advance, and exponentially more stardust to keep powering anything up. So at some point you have to decide for yourself what really matters to you." |
2016-09-02 |
17 |
Christopher Bissonnette |
"Small Feathers" |
single |
The sound of sitting fairly quietly on an old wooden chair. |
2016-09-02 |
18 |
Library Tapes |
"Hebden Bridge" |
single |
The sound of sitting fairly quietly on an old wooden chair as interpreted by a ghost quartet. |
2016-09-02 |
19 |
Zero Bedroom Apartment |
"Blurry Morning Glance" |
The Best of Zero Bedroom Apartment |
The sound of sitting fairly quietly on an old wooden chair as interpreted by a ghost quartet and then filtered through a prismatic dream. |
2016-09-02 |
20 |
Olan Mill |
"Imondia" |
single |
And then blurred. |
2016-09-02 |
21 |
Good Weather For An Airstrike |
"Let go" |
single |
And then polished. |
2016-09-02 |
22 |
Erik Levander |
"Tillsäg mig huld" |
single |
And then replayed as fitful ambient jazz. |
2016-09-02 |
24 |
MONO |
"Ely's Heartbeat" |
single |
Post-rock = ambient + drums. |
2016-07-29 |
30 |
Tobias Hellkvist |
"Kaskelot 1 (Single Version)" |
Kaskelot 1 2 |
Ambient restraint performed as band music. |
2016-07-29 |
68 |
Morphinist |
"Cosmic Maelstrom" |
Giants |
Ambient music for corrosive alien storms. |
2016-07-22 |
31 |
Aube |
"Spectrum" |
Magnetostriction |
The single artist who most changed my understanding of the power of minimalism in compositional method and maximalism in sonic depth was Akifumi Nakajima, the Japanese noise-artist who recorded as Aube. He died in 2013. It seems profoundly tragic to me that he thus basically missed the streaming age, which I think could have been uniquely suited for him. But pieces of his vast and vastly obscure catalog are gradually making their way onto Spotify. The Aube thing was usually to take some singular source of sound, and then fold, spindle, mutilate and process it into a distended storm of cosmic-gestational scope. The 1995 album Magnetostriction, which was one of the first few Aube records I ever heard, begins with a magnetic resonance spectroscope, somehow, and turns it into about an hour of ambient exegesis. Listening to this is a form of anti-meditative meditation. |
2016-07-22 |
37 |
Jeff Zeigler |
"The Glimmering Light" |
Music Inspired by Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur |
Ambient waves and Mary Lattimore's glittering harp. |
2016-07-01 |
35 |
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith |
"Closed Circuit" |
single |
But there is no ambient experimental football. |
2016-06-17 |
56 |
Endless Melancholy |
"Tiny Box of Memories" |
Her Name In A Language Of Stars |
It is not necessary to remember things, it is only necessary to be different than you were without them. |
2016-04-15 |
17 |
Horse Latitudes |
"Spirals Album" |
Primal Gnosis |
Distended doom-ambient tectonic metal. |
2016-04-01 |
59 |
Lucianblomkamp |
"Comfort" |
Bad Faith |
Yes, you can totally base a band on the little ambient noises in "Teardrop". |
2016-04-01 |
62 |
CoH |
"Ether Fields Forever" |
MUSIC VOL. |
Ambient minimalism. Like, really minimal. Like, the base sound of an unoccupied compositional space. |
2016-03-11 |
14 |
Uruk-Hai |
"Return of the Fallen Warriors" |
Elbenstahl |
Solipsistic ambient Tolkien laptop epicore-metal, like a musical evocation of the footnotes for a script for a montage of a battle. |
2016-03-04 |
30 |
COIN |
"Stilled" |
Stilled |
Ambient displacement. |
2016-02-19 |
22 |
Clark |
"Back To Belgrade" |
single |
Ambient future-bass texturalism. |
2016-02-12 |
19 |
Mogwai |
"U-235" |
single |
A couple slight, soundtracky ambient meditations. |
2016-02-12 |
52 |
Michael Neil |
"Saturn's Turn (Melancholia)" |
The Rings of Saturn |
Ambient epicore. |
2016-02-12 |
53 |
Takashi Suzuki |
"Ondo" |
Water and Air |
Ambient ambientcore. |
2016-02-05 |
18 |
Anesthesia |
"Aphelion" |
An Infinite Winter, Vol. 3: Neptune 5 |
Lucid, unhurried ambient-atmospheric post-post-rock. |
2016-02-05 |
47 |
Kashuks |
"Sunrise" |
Fiction |
Textural Latvian solo-producer's episodic ambient/post-rock/dubstep assembly. |
2016-01-22 |
57 |
Roly Porter |
"4101" |
Third Law |
Ambient epicore universe-unbounding noise-catharsis. |
2016-01-08 |
16 |
White Sea |
"Dreaming of Red Openings" |
Soundtrack from the Movie Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) |
Ambient-metropopolian actual-indie-movie soundtrack music. |
2015-12-18 |
47 |
Nelver |
"Soul Intention - Original Mix" |
single |
Russian ambient epicstep. |
2015-12-04 |
2 |
KAUAN |
"Akva" |
Sorni Nai |
Arguably the opposite extreme of metal is this sensuous, often near-ambient folk-post-metal meditation by Kauan. |
2015-11-27 |
2 |
Stephan Mathieu |
"April im Oktober" |
Pop Ambient 2016 |
Kompakt Records has a "Pop Ambient" compilation with Stephan Mathieu and 11 other artists (none of them "pop"). |
2015-11-27 |
3 |
Bersarin Quartett |
"Verflossen ist das Gold der Tage" |
III |
Bersarin Quartett is not a quartet, but this is another really good atmospheric-ambient non-pop album. |
2015-11-20 |
19 |
T-cophony |
"144am" |
Egolayten |
Bright ambient mood-drone by T-cophony. |
2015-11-13 |
14 |
Anna von Hausswolff |
"Discovery" |
The Miraculous |
Avant-garde ambient drone-metal art music by Anna Von Hausswolff. |
2015-11-13 |
38 |
Saint Of Sin |
"Path of Destiny" |
Path of Destiny +2 |
Ambient-epicore world-fusion serenity from Saint Of Sin. |
2015-11-06 |
2 |
Toss Power Traps |
"Even Vatnajökull Can Melt" |
Earth Rot II: Music for Iceland |
My co-worker Brendan made a great ambient electronica album about Iceland as Toss Power Traps. |
2015-10-30 |
1 |
Stara Rzeka |
"BHMTH (czyli historia z wujkiem Albertem)" |
Zamknely sie oczy ziemi |
One-man Polish experimental ambient/acoustic/noise-metal style-shifting chaos from Stara Rzeka. |
2015-10-23 |
20 |
Philip Jeck |
"Fleeing" |
Cardinal |
Spectral-wash ambient noiseshaping by Philip Jeck. |
2015-10-09 |
33 |
The A.M. Experiment |
"Quid Agis" |
The Grids of Civilisation |
The less-ambient of two more albums of sound-collage electronica by The A.M. Experiment. |
2015-10-02 |
3 |
Master Musicians Of Bukkake |
"Return to White Mountain" |
Further West Quad Cult LP |
Dark electronic ambient post-rock by Master Musicians Of Bukkake. |
2015-10-02 |
12 |
The A.M. Experiment |
"Black Rain (New 7'')" |
Black Rain (New) EP |
Fractured chaotic-ambient solipsynthm by The A.M. Experiment. |
2015-10-02 |
42 |
Wolf Maps |
"Destroyed" |
Purity |
Warm ambient drone by Wolf Maps. |
2015-09-25 |
16 |
Bruised Skies |
"Come Out" |
Guide |
Ambient waves from Bruised Skies. |
2015-09-11 |
14 |
Lethe |
"Forever" |
single |
Ambient/avant-garde post-post-metal by Lethe. |
2015-09-04 |
14 |
Druid Cloak |
"Throne Wars" |
Lore: Book Two |
Ambient epicore by Druid Cloak. |
2015-08-21 |
24 |
Blanck Mass |
"The Block" |
Blanck Mass Presents - The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears Re-Score |
Dark ambient re-soundtracking of an homage to Italian giallo thrillers by Blanck Mass et al. |
2015-08-21 |
36 |
Lychgate |
"I Am Contempt" |
An Antidote for the Glass Pill |
Horror-movie ambient black metal by Lychgate. |
2015-08-07 |
47 |
Erik Ekholm |
"Bright Light" |
single |
Ambient epicore by Erik Ekholm. |
2015-08-07 |
49 |
HEALTH |
"VICTIM" |
DEATH MAGIC |
Post-vaporwave small-room ambient-epic-pop darkwave by Health. |
2015-07-31 |
1 |
Lilith |
"Sunsary - Original Mix" |
Sunsary 5 |
Ambient dreampoppiness by Lilith. |
2015-07-31 |
27 |
Anima |
"Overlooking Eternity" |
Convalescence |
Ambient trance by Anima. |
2015-07-10 |
7 |
Piano Interrupted |
"Cross Hands - Hidden Orchestra Remix" |
The Unified Field Reconstructed |
Puréed ambient experimentalism from Piano Interrupted. |
2015-06-30 |
3 |
Jon Ososki |
"Drift" |
Bend Youth |
Smooth, epicness-tinged ambient IDM from Jon Ososki. |
2015-06-23 |
34 |
The Mushrooms |
"Gregor Geregory" |
Bring the Dark |
10 15-song albums of ambient electronic pulses by Mushrooms. |
2015-06-16 |
2 |
The A.M. Experiment |
"Bells and Drums (Rehersal Version)" |
Music for Gardening EP |
Ambient beepiness by The A.M. Experiment. |
2015-06-09 |
16 |
Aurix |
"Luminosity" |
single |
Luminous ambient chill-step by Aurix. |
2015-06-02 |
41 |
The A.M. Experiment |
"Stochastic Drift (Remix One)" |
Stochastic Drift EP |
Frayed-circuit electronic ambient/noise by The A.M. Experiment. |
2015-05-26 |
35 |
Piiptsjilling |
"Slieperswaar" |
single |
Ambient drifting by Piiptsjilling. |
2015-04-28 |
38 |
Empusae |
"Length of Decay" |
Deugden Van Angst En Het Kwaad |
Soundtracky post-ambient-rock by Empusae. |
2015-04-28 |
39 |
Tunnels of Āh |
"At the Error of the Stars" |
Thus Avici |
Sinister dark-ambient muttering by Tunnels of Ah. |
2015-03-31 |
8 |
Dødheimsgard |
"Aphelion Void" |
A Umbra Omega |
Ambient black metal from Dodheimsgard. |
2015-03-24 |
29 |
Germind |
"Horizon-A Dream" |
Antimatter, Vol. 3 |
Swirly ambient trance by Germind. |
2015-03-03 |
27 |
Jean-Michel Jarre |
"Second Rendez-Vous - Remastered" |
Rendez-Vous |
Reissue of the Jean Michel Jarre electro-ambient classic Rendez-Vous. |