Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

“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.

Arguably my favorite worship album of all time.

Snow Leopard Messiah reveals that Cashmore’s greatest contribution to neofolk is how supremely listenable and pleasant he makes it.

It’s not often that an album comes from out of nowhere and immediately charms and enchants you. This is one of those albums.

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.

These dozen songs possess an emotional heft that one doesn’t always associate with the synth-pop genre.

Haunting, dark, epic, and danceable. Recommended for fans of Makeup & Vanity Set and Daft Punk.

Cinematic electronic music, Quaker-influenced synthpop, spacious ambient dub, atmospheric chamber music, and exotic instrumentals.

Without a doubt, the most ambitious mewithoutYou album to date, by any standard, but also the most troubling.

For those times when you just want to lose yourself in some sad, nostalgic, starry-eyed ambience for an hour or so.

For all of its artificiality, there’s very little that’s cold, clinical, or merely “academic” about Platform.

This time: Atmospheric darkwave, eerie space rock, poetic post-hardcore, jangly pop, and soulful hip-hop.

One lovely composition full of fragile notes and filigrees followed by another.

Seryn’s much-anticipated and long-awaited sophomore release is bombastic in all the right ways.

The Danish band’s “twee-est” album to date.

The Declining Winter continues to explore shambling, pastoral post-rock territory.

In this edition: Pastoral post-rock, bombastic indie-prog, emotional folk-rock, and elegant guitar instrumentals.