Tag: AMBIENT
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mUmbo – When It Was Quiet EP
“When It Was Quiet” is the latest release by mUmbo, an excellent English trio based in London. It’s their first piece of work this year, arriving after “Sky Is Blue,” “Fringe Benefits,” “Red Benefits,” and “A Little Life,” a series of marvellous standalone singles released throughout 2023 and 2024 that you should also check out…
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Tender Ender – Black Swan
When a record aims for cinematic scale, it often ends up merely sounding big. But Tender Ender‘s Black Swan, the latest ambitious offering by Tender Ender, achieves soundscapes that could easily become your new soundtrack. It’s music built from the ground up for wide-screen moments, a sprawling, gorgeous, opulent and dangerously fragile movie landscape. Thomas…
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Lola Wild – Lost Signal EP
“Lost Signal” is Lola Wild’s recently released extended play that will immediately appeal to anyone who appreciates cleverly assembled and flawlessly performed music. Arriving after “Girls In Hollywood,” “Lost Signal,” “Relax,” and “Jump The Gun,” four previously released standalone singles that vividly showcase what you might expect from this material, Lola Wild also included “The…
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Ravage – Ravage
Ravage’s self-titled debut is an uncompromising work of art, a furious conversation that takes place at the volatile intersection of noise rock, avant-rock, and post-hardcore. Formed by three tireless composer-improvisers, Anthony Laguerre on drums, Bastien Pelenc and Mathieu Werchowski on violins, the trio has engineered a fully organic, cinematic, and feverish soundscape. This is a…
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Young Couple – yc
Today marks the release of “yc,” a debut album by Young Couple, an outstanding Danish band based in Copenhagen. Packed with eight incredible compositions, it represents an outstanding musical showcase that will unquestionably appeal to anyone who appreciates cleverly assembled and flawlessly performed music. Heavily promoted with “Isn’t anything” and “As the leaves unfold,” two…
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Kety Fusco – BOHÈME CD
The instrument has always carried a weight of cultural determinism. The guitar is often associated with rebellion, the piano is renowned for its erudition, while the cello is known for its melancholic depth. The harp, however, has traditionally been burdened by the most ethereal and arguably the most constrictive archetype of all, grace, antiquity, the…
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Purple Stone – Spacetime
It has been a while since we had a chance to write about a duo that sounds this good, and when they’re exploring music genres we love from the bottom of our hearts, every listening session becomes such a treat. As you probably already know, the psychedelic rock scene has thrived over the last couple…
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Eric Angelo Bessel – Mirror At Night LP (Lore City Music)
Eric Angelo Bessel’s Mirror At Night exists somewhere between worlds. It doesn’t announce itself with traditional hooks or percussive drive, yet it immediately draws you into a suspended, reflective, and expansive space. Across twelve instrumental compositions, Bessel constructs an intimate and immense landscape, a world shaped by sound rather than words. Each track is a…
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Ship Says Om Unveils Meditative Ambient-Folk Track “Samadhi”
Ship Says Om, the ambient-folk project led by Jenny Gillespie Mason (Sis, The Lower Wisdom), releases “Samadhi,” a mesmerizing new composition blending shamanic, Celtic, and global influences. Time-stretched vocals float over blurred piano motifs, field recordings, and translucent synth textures, creating an ethereal listening experience. The track serves as a meditative passage into the spiritual…
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Fore Fader – Great Pretender
“Great Pretender” is the latest release by Fore Fader, an outstanding American music outlet based in Los Angeles, California. Arriving after “Chrysalis” and “All I Ever,” two exceptional singles released earlier this year that vividly showcase what you might expect from the remainder of the material, “Great Pretender” represents their debut full-length album, packed with…
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Solid State Nothingness Shares New Single “Woods”
Solid State Nothingness released the latest single, Woods, blending electronic downtempo with the textures of world music. The track weaves Arabic oud melodies with trippy grooves and layers of dreamy piano, creating a transportive sonic journey. Drawing from classical influences while embracing experimental electronica, the artist crafts a sound that feels ancient and futuristic at…
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Seb Brun & Simon Henocq – Vallées
It has been a while since we talked about the records that dare to confront. Vallées, the latest collaboration between French experimentalists Seb Brun and Simon Henocq, falls squarely into those releases that shapeshift the boundaries of non-conventional music. It’s a well-organized yet disorienting listening experience that keeps the listener engaged from start to finish,…
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