ambient
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P:1 by Teotl Expansion A handful of long, ambient motifs built of electronically edited piano playing coming off this Teotl Expansion EP, P:1. While, on paper, the musical concept of this EP seems pretty simple–and, uh, well, it is–the final result is something that’s actually
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While Old Man Gloom brings an interesting blend of ambient music and sludge metal, one side of the sound ends up feeling more interesting than the other. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Motion Sickness of Time Travel is the solo project of ambient music artist Rachel Evans, and she’s pretty prolific as well, having released three hefty projects this year. She had even more releases in 2011. The release list on her Bandcamp is pretty overwhelming. Below are three of her
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With its sixth full-length album, Icelandic quartet Sigur Rós changes its sound a bit and heads into much more ambient territory. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Some serene sounds and strange visuals coming through on this new Kyle Bobby Dunn video for “An Evening With Dusty.” The track comes from this ambient music enthusiast’s forthcoming album, Bring Me the Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn, which will be out on Low Point in June. More info
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Polar Night by Kevin Hufnagel Since the release of his 2011 album Transparencies, guitarist Kevin Hufnagel (Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Vaura, Byla) seems to be putting more momentum behind his solo, ambient efforts. Polar Night is his latest collection of guitar-conjured drones and soundscapes, and you can stream it all you want
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“Battenburg Variation” is an ambient electronic track by UK act Uther Moads. This is a tough track to nail down genre-wise. It’s ambient in nature, but certainly uses some clear rhythms and a set tempo to keep the song moving. This is a relaxing track, up until the end,
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AETERNA (2012) by Black Swan To those of you who prefer their ambient music as dark and eerie as possible, allow me to direct your attention to the experimental drone project Black Swan. I’ve heard plenty of artists toy with “dark ambient” music with underwhelming results, mostly at the
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While UK-based producer Actress creates some really beautiful sounds on this new album, very few of them last long enough to leave a real impression on me–much less progress very far. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Nothing but non-stop insanity coming through on this new visual from the Flaming Lips and Prefuse 73 collaborative track, “Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee.” The track comes from the new collaboration-laden Flaming Lips album, the Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, which is out now on Warner Brothers.
