tape music
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Kristin’s creative approach to hymns and Appalachian folksong make SAVED! a powerful concept album. SAVED! by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
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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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William Basinski returns with one of his most accessible and compositionally satisfying sets of drones yet.
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Only the Youngest Grave by Lost Salt Blood Purges An enthralling double album by Melbourne artist Lost Salt Blood Purges, mixing elements of ritual ambient, neofolk, tape music, and a bit of jazz. Out now via Art as Catharsis.
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Popeth by Aaron Dilloway & Jason Lescalleet “Popeth” means “everything” in Welsh. It’s also the name of the latest collaborative full-length from enlightened noisesmiths Aaron Dilloway and Jason Lescalleet, properly following up their 2012 team-up Grapes and Snakes. Above, find Popeth centerpiece “Western Nest,” whose masterful bonding of lulling
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https://soundcloud.com/lastlizard/dickies-theme Last month, Alex Zhang Hungtai announced the laying to rest of his long-running and acclaimed no-wave singer-songwriter alias Dirty Beaches. The recently released Stateless was packed with gorgeous drones and was thankfully an elegant end for the project. There was a silver lining to this
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This track by Deep Magic, off of his upcoming release Reflections of Most Forgotten Love to be released on Preservation is the sort of babbling-brook ambient music that suggests perfect peace, a monk meditating amid a waterfall. It is not a static song though, musical phrases pass through and are
