" It’s seriously sweet, soulful introspection for early mornings or late nights, don’t even think of hitting play between 10am and 10pm."

"Tysma's light touch on the piano's skin and a faint, cautiously optimistic, ambient awakening, echoing real-life affairs of the heart"

"field recordings that might have sounded tired and detached in more traditional ambient work, but which here are a living, breathing part of the compositions"

the mellow yet mantric drums, guitar and bass paint a suitably light cerulean backdrop for Greve's soft, serene yet purposeful vocals

"free-flowing jazz-led genre fluidity meets spiritual psychedelic wonder guided by grooving, ritualist, hypnotic rhythms. "

"It's rare that a singer sounds this distinctive, and good; her voice simultaneously fragile, forceful, aching and artful."

"subwoofer-testing bass, lazy, stripped-back but swinging beats and a taste of Lebanon permeate all the cuts"

The album captures the infinite echoes of decades-old music, and weaves the still-resonating creativity into a wondrous, gaseous ambient odyssey.

"An opiated synth siren then provides a hypnotic rhythmic pulse for the atmospheric layering to cling onto, the succinct sound palette creating a mesmerising, quietly suspenseful slice of ambient electronica that locks you in and won't let go."

"star-bound ballads, weekend dance tracks and Afro-cosmic visions"

"Immediately kicking off with a pan-African fusion of highlife and desert blues, the lads get a nice, start-of night groove on, with Vervaeck providing some simultaneously lysergic and evocative guitar"

Sova in reflective, end of day mood; her politely insistent, felted piano refrain suggests the sofa is in order; Sam Torres seconds the suggestion by dimming the lights with a temple massaging sax line

"It’s a great intro to this singular soul artist, and a better-lit gateway to the murkier, deep soul depths of his back catalogue."

Electroacoustic adventures over, Nic Hyatt then sees this enlightened nu-vocal-jazz delight out with a poignant piano moment

"Berthling and Werliin perpetrating this year’s most lethargic yet hypnotic groove, whilst Bothén’s clarinet and Ambarchi’s Hammond-sounding guitar gently spar"

"The musicians eschew ego to become one, the pedal steel, sax, contrabass, piano and light-touch drums uniting in somewhat sentimental, smooth yet spiritual, mid-twentieth-century orchestral jazz fashion"

the cover art for Fatback Band's Spanish Hustle (Joaquin Joe Claussell Remixes) EP, showing a retro poster for Fatback Band, Spring Revisited: Spanish Hustle, with sepia band photo and a large close-up face.

"the distressed electroacoustic ambient atmospherics provide a threadbare, but cozy rug for Franzmann’s painfully shy vocals"

"all the tracks huddle together for the greater good, and provide a really lovely start to finish listen"

"the musicians decide undulating free jazz and an ambient noise outro is their answer to an "institutional music world", and I couldn't agree more."

"a somewhat resigned vocal refrain and acoustic guitar drag the song out of bed, before ordering a double espresso of low-key rolling beats and electric guitar"

the pastoral abstract-folk and ambient-Americana thread that glues the album's evocative field recordings and electronic tinkering together

post-rock reflection, the hypnotic kosmische groove of "Spiral" - perhaps my pick of the bunch, the acid-ritualism of "Hypogean" and the cosmic wonder of "Dark Alignment"

"The album is a wilfully meandering, compositionally playful, yet artistically serious slice of lysergic folk meets oddball, unhurried, stoner post-rock"