ambient
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Though some of Lamentations‘ pieces could have used some fleshing out, it remains one of the year’s most emotionally potent ambient efforts.
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As an overview of Daniel Lopatin’s musical exploits, Magic OPN isn’t quite as spectacular as it could have been.
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Neither half of Love + Light is particularly well-defined.
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Telas sounds like a collection of glitchy and electroacoustic leftovers—which, granted, mostly sound good—glued into quasi-longform pieces.
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Im Wald stretches Paysage d’Hiver’s most threadbare material to an arduous two hours.
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Four Tet’s increasingly ambient direction continues to dampen his appeal on Sixteen Oceans.
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Nicolas Jaar’s second album of 2020 is an evocative set of electroacoustic vignettes.
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Sufjan Stevens teams up with stepfather Lowell Brams for a severely underwhelming series of half-hearted ambient works.
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While not as cohesive as Squarepusher’s seminal works, Be Up a Hello is his most solid work in at least a decade.
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Talk Talk’s swansong is a gorgeous and timeless fusion of rock, jazz, classical, and ambient music. R.I.P. Mark Hollis
