ambient

Chicago artist Gia Margaret follows up her exquisite 2018 debut full-length There's Always Glimmer -- one of our favorites of that year -- with something a bit unexpected...

Calming, meditative sounds for uncertain times...

Sufjan's collab with Lowell Brams is out March 27th...

Brooklyn synth-pop trio Sandy are set to release their stellar new Traces EP tomorrow via Geographic North, and today the group shares a haunting, security footage-style live video for one of my favorite tracks of 2019, the record's melancholy but still balm-like lead single "Not There." Watch the video, directed and produced by Kevin Mahoney + Andy Egan, below, then stick around to stre

We first became aware of French ambient producer Malibu via her stunning contribution to PAN's incredible mono no aware compilation from a couple of years back, and today we're psyched to premiere an exquisitely glowing and enveloping track from her debut EP One Life, coming November 1st on limited 12" via UNO NYC / Joyful Noise...

We're psyched to premiere this stunning new track from Philly contemporary classical composer Nina Keith, taken from her forthcoming debut full-length MARANASATI 19111, a profoundly reflective and beautiful album that "delves deeply into the memory networks of childhood...

Matt Kivel shares the video for one of the standout tracks from his forthcoming 5th LP last night in america, a record inspired in part by what Kivel describes as that uniquely American ability to "to shrug and submerge terrible feelings...

Dublin's Maria Somerville just dropped her beautifully hypnotic and spectral new album All My People, which we described earlier this month as "gorgeous, hazy, distant-but-intimate dream pop that at times recalls a more bucolic Grouper". Get lost in the record below, and pick up the limited white vinyl 12" here (1 copy left as of this posting!), or purchase the regular vinyl edition

We've been entranced for weeks by the title track from Galway, Ireland artist Maria Somerville's forthcoming self-released debut LP All My People, an eerie, vaguely foreboding lullaby that Maria says was influenced as much by experimental, ambient, and club music as it was by traditional Irish folk ballads...

Consider this the start of a very soothing trend: after somehow making it through the first 13 years of this blog without posting up any ambient pedal steel jams (that I can recall), here's the second one this month. "Slip/Fall" is a gorgeous, shimmering looped pedal steel dreamscape from Mississippi's Kell Kellum...