"This could be ambient jazz's year, and if I finally do that jazzbient mix this tune will be on it."

"with the sort of sound design that makes you wish that you'd gone for the next headphone model up"

"before descending back into the gloom to intertwine with the other instruments to more sedate, quietly experimental ambient ends, and refreshingly sound like nothing else around."

" It's emotive, shapeshifting, patiently evolving ambient electroacoustic music"

" all ambient bases covered From Where You Came LP, and the ambient piano joys of A Series of Actions in a Sphere Forever album"

"Every sonic detail, and there are many, perfectly judged and synergising for the greater ambient good. "

"encourage you to pay more attention to life's ambient soundtrack as you go about your business"

" Further sonic decay creeps in on the ambient infrastructure of "Kvitøya", so the lads introduce some languorous trip hop drums to hold the fraying synths"

"unusual synth sounds, found and handmade recordings and oddball effects, coupled with his idiosyncratic sonic detailing"

" the elongated piano notes land softly on the well placed ambient synth cushions and what sounds like natural water sounds, or is it leaves rustling?"

"his fragile found sounds and thoughtful piano, guitar, accordion, synth and percussion work."

"It's a well crafted slice of contemplative ambient music that works with or without pretty pictures."

"It’s a singular slice of intimate, ambient pop meets singer songwriter craft"

"The album starts in fine ambient fashion, easy drones rising and falling like a summer tide as waves of static fold into the swell"

"a boundary nudging ambient jazz transmission that refreshingly doesn't sound like too much else around"

"it always amazes me how such cohesive arrangements can be collaged from such shattered sonics"

"There’s the shimmering transcendence of “Lost to Follow”, the Cafe del Mar like mantric looping and politely insistent guitar motifs on “Collapsing the Vanguard"

the track has been reincarnated and is having a more serene existence this time round, and when it sounds this nice that's OK.

"a simple yet supremely satisfying bed of low frequency adjacent drones, sound elongations & minor sonic detailing that radiates a low lit warmth"

"late night, big city tower block electronica drenched in pleasing distortion and static, coupled with a flickering fluorescent lit ambience"

"an admirable attempt to map the gentler paths that snake through the ambient, new age and modern classical multiverses"

"The playing is pleasingly minimal and melodically ambiguous, always stopping just short of tired old tropes or overly familiar progressions"

Alyas is an ambient hobbiest from Sweden, and for a part-timer he's been transmitting an impressive stream of calming etherealism for an...

"inspired by mid-1980s Japanese new age and ambient music, otherwise known as kankyō ongaku (environmental music), and less directly by vintage Italian experimental music"