“Ambient” Reviews

The perfect soundtrack for summer days where you just want to lie down and watch the clouds float by.

Elegant piano compositions blend with fluttering electronics and the occasional string flourish.

This collection of dreamlike yet unsettling ambient music is one of Dream Catalogue’s best releases in recent memory.

Tor Lundvall’s first vocal album in nearly ten years blends hushed ambient music with themes of sorrow and longing.

This “children fairytale book concept album” is full of enchanting, beguiling music.

Angela Klimek’s lovely debut conjures up a magical, enchanting view of winter thanks to vast ambient drones and textures.

This ambient reimagining breaks down Vangelis’ original score and weaves it back together in new, intriguing ways.

An immaculately produced album of ambient electronica.

Evocative ambient music with hints of nocturnal mystery and intrigue.

Originally released in 1988, this album feels like the blueprints of what would eventually come to be known as vaporwave.

Ambient soundscapes that are as foreboding and ominous as they are beautiful.

This gorgeous space-themed EP blends metal and shoegaze to stunning effect.

Patient listeners will find much to appreciate in the post-rock outfit’s latest album.

Kosmische-inspired ambient music that evokes the most distant and forsaken reaches of space.

Though created by two vaporwave luminaries, this album’s best moments transcend that genre’s aesthetics.

“Drift Music” is lovely but “Translucence” is required listening material for fans of elegant, serene ambient music.

A fantastic point of entry into the career of one of ambient music’s most distinctive and prolific voices.

Irezumi crafts ambient soundscapes with such elegance that they never feel insufferable or too consumed by their own gloom.

Easily one of the best and most sublime releases I’ve ever heard from the Hearts of Space label.

Nearly beatless ambient dub that drift around the listener with nary any resistance.