ambient

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." W…

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 o…

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 limite…

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 I…

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 dre…

Montreal ambient dream-pop duo Alexia Avina + Nick Schofield -- aka Best Fern -- gently ease us into the weekend with the video for their exquisite new single. If you enjoyed the duo's soothing a-ha cover or Avina's beautiful recent solo record, you'll definitely want to take a moment to bask in th…

Getting some serious vintage nature doc/educational filmstrip nostalgia from this meditative gem from Barry Walker's glorious new record Diaspora Urkontinent, coming soon via our friends at Driftless. Walker's gentle, ambient "tectonic pedal steel" elicits some super dreamy and soothing ex…

Belgium-based minimalist ambient composer Christina Vantzou shares a spectral 16MM short film, soundtracked by Vantzou's beautifully glacial and elegiac "At Dawn," one of the gorgeous highlights from her utterly immersive, trance-inducing forthcoming fourth full-length for Kra…