ambient

  • 2013

    Famed electronic music producer, and underground dubstep titan Burial has just dropped a new EP titled Rival Dealer, which is streamable on the Hyperdub Records YouTube channel. Hear the title track above, and you can hear the two remaining songs here and here. Pick up a copy of this new

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    Eternal Return(excerpt) by SUNN O))) & Ulver An excerpt from a soon-to-be-released track that features the artistic of both Sunn O))) and Ulver. Yes, Sunn O))) and Ulver! If you’re into the heavier and darker side of music, these are two names you’re undoubtedly familiar with, and

  • 2013

    Quatorze/Quinze Ans by Ô Paon Drone, ambient music, folk, and more come together on this new shyly voiced Ô Paon EP, which was recorded in the magical land of Anacortes, Washington. There must be a lot of rough, noisy textures around those parts, because that’s what this EP

  • Canadian music producer Tim Hecker returns with a stunning collection of tracks that make for some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard this year.

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    Seattle electronic music duo Blue Sky Black Death have taken things in a new direction with their new album Glaciers. Oh, their music is as lush and as chill as ever, but this new effort sees the twosome crafting sprawling ambient and instrumental hip hop odysseys that range from 8

  • Daniel Lopatin’s latest full-length sees him stepping away from the extreme sampling that made 2011’s Replica so thrilling. Instead, he rests on his passion for tightly sequenced synths, and there are some somewhat engaging results.

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    Tim Hecker has offered another teaser for his forthcoming album Virgins via a Sabrina Ratté-directed video for new single “Black Refraction.” The majestic piano piece is fittingly accompanied by a stream of grainy, kaleidoscopic visuals shot in an around a cathedral. Check it out above! Virgins will be released October

  • 2013

    As we’ve already mentioned, electronic music producer Four Tet has a new album coming out titled Beautiful Rewind, and there’s a new track from it streaming above. While it maintains the particularly rigid assembly of electronic sequences that have been prevalent in Tet’s recent works, it does

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    Last month, ambient musician Julianna Barwick dropped her sophomore LP Nepenthe, among the most delicate and ethereal releases of the year. Be sure to check out this breathtaking rendition of album highlight “‘The Harbinger,”  which she performed live on a lakeshore in Iceland for La Blogothèque’s Take Away Shows.

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    Check out the new video from electronic musician, Shigeto. “Detroit Part 1” is taken from his new album No Better Time Than Now and is accompanied by a music video that manages to be simultaneously bleak and kaleidoscopic. It’s a fitting esthetic for Shigeto’s jazzy, chilled-out blend of