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Paper Ocean - ambedo (sadboy sessions)
"soothing tones laying the ground work for the unhurried introduction of a simple but soporific guitar refrain"
The Slow Music Movement
Jan 1, 20251 min read


molly leach - little bird (Wild Moon)
The piano is gentle, the park's fauna play their part as do some defrosted chimes, there are some piano creaks captured by the close micing
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 27, 20241 min read


Martin Martyn - X (h239)
She slides the atmospheric synth pads under his delicate keys, sending them spiralling through the speakers on the warm currents
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 19, 20241 min read


Sanae Yamada - Flowering Tree (Longform Editions)
a drifting, deeply calming, subtly repetitive and hence hypnotic, hour long electroacoustic work
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 17, 20241 min read


storyinsoil - Reflection in Stone (Optik Muzak)
deep space evoking, shape shifting slice of ambient drift
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 16, 20241 min read


derrickderrick - happiest in illusion (Shimmering Moods)
"but seems to have decided light grey cloud shrouded, classical nodding ambient compositions are the way forward"
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 15, 20241 min read


Jack Goodman - mudguts (Mod Joe)
The sounds on the whole are warm but somewhat dull, not as in boring, but an opiated dullness that somehow just dissipates energy and stress
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 13, 20241 min read


Be Still The Earth x Hatsü x consule - inter (Slow Echo)
Undulating pads, or perhaps old tape loops, distant guitar caresses and probably a few other sound sources I've still to identify come and go
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 12, 20241 min read


Springwell - dvala (Self Release)
a nice line in somewhat, if not quite full on Scandinavian melancholy, then somewhat subdued, short and sweet, pleasantly hazy ambient.
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 12, 20241 min read


Leif -Liminal Pieces (Self Release)
sink into his soft edged beats and ambient drift, where even the club constructs are designed for the start of night or after the after party
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 9, 20241 min read


Aus - Fluctor (Flau)
Most tracks float effortlessly through the speakers and hang in the air like your wayward uncle’s cigarette smoke,
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 7, 20241 min read


narion - lost worlds (liquid city)
It's a fine slice of broken streetlight and tower block ambient engineering
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 7, 20241 min read


Cay Taylan - Life (LOBP)
It's a sprawling, cavernous, refreshingly full bodied ambient excursion that floods through the speakers
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 6, 20241 min read


Home Normal x Broken Chip (Home Normal)
the track selection is impeccable and the mixing spot on; a smoother flowing ambient suite you’ll struggle to find.
The Slow Music Movement
Dec 2, 20241 min read


Civil Hall - the trembling line (Lost Tribe Sound)
"It’s listenable enough just as a ferric distressed electroacoustic instrumental LP, BUT just wait for McMeeken’s vocals."
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 27, 20241 min read


mastroKristo - Passage (Lost Tribe)
It’s tender, epic, warm and dispassionate. It’s folk, classical, ambient and cinematic. It’s affecting.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 22, 20242 min read


Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice - Phantasy & Reality (Moon Glyph)
they’re unfailingly accompanied by otherworldly sonic detailing that make their familiarity fantastical.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 21, 20242 min read


Inge Weatherhead Breistein - Rust (Jazzland
The album is all sorts of ambient jazz shades and I highly recommend you beam aboard.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 20, 20242 min read
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Memory Scale - Moment of Inertia (Taken from the forthcoming Fauna compilation) [n5MD]
Tonal minimalism provides the emotional heft as ambiguous, insistent electronic sounds ape capitalism's never ending search for profits
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 19, 20242 min read


Ben Lukas Boysen - Alta Ripa (Erased Tapes)
levitating for as long as possible for maximum effect before gradually fading into the void. There is real beauty in its simplicity.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 15, 20241 min read


Broken Chip - A Distant Blur (Home Normal)
Loops come, go, repeat and retreat, but don’t be deterred by the word loop, the LP is a masterclass in the repetitive arts.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 12, 20241 min read


Francis Gri - Svanire (Self Release)
The LP is a wonderfully calming/contemplative/palliative (delete as required) exercise in minimal ambient piano.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 11, 20242 min read
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[Life goes on] Lone Mesa - Dirt Park (Worried Songs)
The LP is a walk on the ambient side of Americana, the first half being more recognisably structured acoustic folk musings
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 8, 20241 min read


Matt Scatchell - Lift (BDC)
out of the studio shadows and into the public spotlight, by way of some very pleasant sounding ambient recordings, and I'm all ears.
The Slow Music Movement
Nov 5, 20241 min read
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