A shimmering and ascendant piece of thoughtful post-rock, “Phil Spector in Hell” by Sugar Horse is a lovingly deconstructed take on what can be a fairly formulaic genre. Folding in distant, slowcore influenced vocals bearing a strong resemblance to Codeine or Mogwai in it’s most triumphant measures. The UK based Sugar Horse master the slow …
A standout selection from the Metal-to-Ambient pipeline, Metal Injection’s Greg Kennelty has debuted a lovely and thoughtful project with Chalk Portraits. Modular melodies intersect and crisscross with each other in strange and beautiful angles on “Memory II”. Patient and unfolding, the track slowly unfurls in minimalist fashion until right around the 4:30 minute mark we …
Inspired by Irish traditional music, David Collier recorded this gorgeous composition for a string quartet back in 2015. Now seeing the light of day in 2021, which feels lightyears away from 2015, “Smacht” carries quite a bit of weight. At each pass new elements are added in as strings layer atop one another and new …
The Argentinian post-rock / ambient group Atlético Chipset set controls for the heart of the sun with the gorgeous track “Recuerdos De Un Sueño Codificado”. Matching honey-sweet drones dripping with reverb and delay with a highly melodic and propulsive guitar lines that seem ever-ascending in their trajectory, Atlético Chipset seem to be channeling the chiller …
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Full of sustained tones, processed percussive hits that sound like bells ringing underwater, sun bleached drones and field recordings that refuse to be placed although they sound all too familiar, “Subconciously” by the Netherlands based artist Njordlyd is a deeply enveloping work. These disparate pieces are stitched together by an invisible thread that characterizes the …
PURE GOOHN cannot miss. Another stunning piece of ambient work by this Tokyo based label. Nobuhiro Okahashi floats by on some edgeless ambient pads, crystalline drones and distant, reverbed-out glitching percussion. An almost nine minute escape into pure bliss with “In White”.
‘With 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒖, I wanted to preserve the freeing feeling of releasing your body into the quiet sway of the waves; and the freeing feeling of being able to finally breathe out, completely’ – Nyokabi Kariūki. Easing into that lunar pull of waves against the body, the Kenyan artist Nyokabi Kariūki offers a swelling and expanding …
“Field 17” by Jonathan Roberts features a lovely build moving from ambient drones, a main piano melody which slowly and subtly brings in drums, a gorgeous synth lead and washes of ambient textures. “Field 17” then begins its blissful descent into an atmospheric landing among equally beautiful atmospheric passages of drone. “Field 17” masters several …
Ringing with the same kind of electro-acoustic audio honesty that is a hallmark of artists like Hood, The Notwist and The Declining Winter, Lorcán delves into ambient passages, dreampop guitar, electronic percussion and a lovely vocal duet with childhood friend and solo artist Ailsa Tully to produce a beautiful and understated piece of work. “Circles …
Written as a requiem of sorts for the come down from a festival, Royorbisonsghost wrote “Mercy: The Day After” for those days that seem just a few shades off axis from reality, a bit feathered around the edges as life slowly begins to click back into place. A gorgeous ambient composition that rises and falls …