There Is a Beautiful Paradox at the Heart of Weval’s ‘The Weight’
Weval's The Weight walks a fine line between joy and melancholy with supreme elegance, offering shades of light and dark in equal measure.
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Kasper Bjørke Quartet: The Fifty Eleven Project
Danish producer Kasper Bjørke takes the listener on an anxiety-ridden journey through a cancer diagnosis with The Fifty Eleven Project.
The Field’s Formula for Musical Escapism Has Yet to Fail
The sheer repetition of the Field's music on Infinite Moment lures you in, but it's the quality of what's happening in these dense mixes that makes you stay, that allows you see the forest for the tree.
Gui Boratto’s ‘Pentagram’ Is a Forward-Looking Mess of Moods and Styles
Gui Boratto's next great album isn't Pentagram, but it holds a lot of promise for his future.
Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2018
Here comes another Kompakt Pop Ambient collection to make life just a little more bearable.
John Tejada: Ceol
A little bit of Tejada is better than none at all.
Vermont: II
There is a very singular sort of trajectory to II, lived-in and about as vital as ambient music ever deigns to be.
Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2017
Another calendar year, another blissful blessing from Kompakt's long-running Pop Ambient series.
GAS: Box
Kompakt releases another GAS box set, one that is less comprehensive than its predecessor.
Thore Pfeiffer: Im Blickfeld
When it comes to the Kompakt league of ambient music, Thore Pfeiffer is more on his way there than having fully arrived.
The Orb: Moonbuilding 2703 AD
The Orb sail over the moon on this one, making electronic greatness look easy as ever.
Gui Boratto: Abaporu
Abaporu is a record that, despite all of its differing hues, manages to come across as a unified mosaic of sound.