ambient
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On this title track from one of Grouper’s two new albums, Liz Harris creates “vastness,” and packs it into three minutes of arpeggios and ghostly vocals. The lo-fi production makes the music really smudgy and obscured, but there’s still something therapeutic about the repetition and textures here. Listening
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Hercules by Kin As Kin, electronic artist Yung Hui explores sound’s dark side through drones and bleak synths. What backing up these sounds much of the time are hip hop beats, believe it or not–but a verse over his tunes just doesn’t seem appropriate. His latest album,
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Ambient music artist Liz Harris has just put out her sixth album under the name Grouper. It’s a double album, containing the releases Alien Observer and Dream Loss. Of course, this video is for the title track of the former. /via/
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It’s been five years since New Orleans’ Belong released their full-length debut via Carpark Records. Common Era is the new album, and Kranky is the new label. In regards to the song above, “A Walk,” I want to say this music feels like an eternity–but I mean that
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MP3 A remix of Grouper’s “Alien Oberver” by Teen Daze. Enjoy! And look for Grouper’s latest set of albums, A I A, this month. Hear the original version of this track at P4K.
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Tim Hecker’s latest album is a barren wasteland of forgotten sounds. It’s music you can truly wander through. Some tracks do feel a little short of breath, sadly, but there are many more standouts here than there are duds. It’s another strong piece of material in the
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On “Divinus,” Desolate words the sonic manifesto for his debut album, the Invisible Insurrection. The reserved vocal samples and repetitious rhythms may not sound like much, but this project emphasizes atmosphere than it does song. Maybe it’s a little to structured for me to go full “ambient” on it,
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Nicolas Jaar’s debut LP is a dark exercise in bleak dance beats, sound collages, and ambient interludes. Though the album doesn’t come off with a clear intent, Space Is Only Noise makes for a really heady and beautiful listen. What makes this album attractive isn’t exactly obvious
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One of my last album reviews of ’09 was Julianna Barwick’s Flourine, and I vividly remember having a few near-religious experiences with that album / ep / thing. On 2/22, Asthmatic Kitty is set to release Julianna’s latest album, the Magic Place. Download the title track below. Much like
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I got my first introduction to this New England electronic artist was through a blogTV I did a while back. Someone had requested a song from this guy, and it was love at first listen. Wilderness is White Mountains’ latest album, and “Northern Spirit” is the LP’s new single.
