ambient
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Nosaj Thing’s sophomore album still has the soft, quaint sounds fans have enjoyed previously from California producer Jason Chung, but with a serious decline in the hip hop vibes that radiated so boldly off of 2009’s Drift. WATCH THE REVIEW
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7" by naps I seriously challenge any sane person to nap to this EP, I’m pretty sure you would just start blinking wildly. The reason I say this is because Naps produces music that would be very dreamy and comforting ambient music, if it wasn’t for the
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The Perennials by Motion Sickness of Time Travel Via the widget above, hear a few cuts off the latest EP from ambient songstress Motion Sickness of Time Travel. Grab the vinyl here, and make sure to hear some of her longer, more ambitious projects here.
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A new track from the ambient project Tape Loop Orchestra titled “I Died When She Left Me.” It’s from the newly released album In A Lonely Place. The song is a pretty haunting combination of strings and what feels like field recordings. There’s a strong sense of sorrow
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Sonic experimentalist Solicce, a.k.a. Tom Gallo, has a debut full-length dropping early next year. On the small collection of tracks he’s seen fit to release beforehand right here, “Moonsailing” is a touching and piano-lead standout. Not only is the piano playing here delicate and patient, but the
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juche by juche juche is a colorful and relaxing little musical project that came to my attention shortly after I did that Macintosh Plus review. In that video, I questioned the legitimacy of a genre label like vaporwave, and led to a lot of comments and dramaaaaaaaaa. I did, however,
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On this new collaborative effort from Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin, the two artists combine their respective approaches to ambient and experimental music in a way even the most casual fans can predict. That’s not a bad thing, though. Where this album falls short is in writing and execution,
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“Your Cast Will Tire” is one of many shadowy and unsettling moments from the new Raime album, Quarter Turns Over a Living Line, which is out now via the fittingly titled Blackest Ever Black label. The seven tracks here toy with dark ambient soundscapes, pulsating beats, and some dub effects
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While Vessel does create a pretty consistent and well-groomed style on this album, which fuses elements of IDM and techno with some of the most shadowy sounds on record, some tracks are clearly more well-developed than others. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Brian Eno’s latest ambient effort sees him returning to his roots in the genre with albums like Ambient 1. At first, I found that pretty refreshing, and I loved the combination of piano, violin, synths, and guitar on these tracks, too. However, the album is seriously lacking in terms
