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Light Gestalt - 1000 Beaches (PLX) [Chill Out]
"The synth pads are familiar but rather than sounding generic the main refrain just sounds blissful and balmy"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 282 min read


Solkyri remixed by rhubiqs and Hollie Kenniff - This Is Where We Ended Up (Self Release) [Dream Pop]
the track has been reincarnated and is having a more serene existence this time round, and when it sounds this nice that's OK.
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 272 min read


Casha Mour - AAOO (Self Release) [lo fi electronica]
"late night, big city tower block electronica drenched in pleasing distortion and static, coupled with a flickering fluorescent lit ambience"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 211 min read


Lucrecia Dalt - A Danger to Ourselves (RVNG INTL.) [Alternative Pop]
"balances Dalt’s stubborn experimentalism with a more accessible pop sheen, but ultimately it’s a triumph for perseverance and time honing her studio and song craft"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 202 min read


Wetwire - Equilibrium (Self Release)
"Equilibrium continues her artisinal analogue approach - no AI, no samples, no arpeggiators, no software instruments - a hand built labor of love."
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 161 min read


Perera Elsewhere - Fountain (Friends of Friends)
"Elsewhere showing her vocal versatility by switching between tower block spitting and dream soul, both styles effortlessly riding the broken beats and late night mood."
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 102 min read


Leon Todd Johnson - wa kei sei jaku (Whited Sepulchre)
"Barely raising a decibel for the best part of two minutes, “Sei’s”introduction gives you ample time to savour every note, word and chirp before it slowly blooms into another thoughtful, blissful piano meditation."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 282 min read


Swimming Pool - Line Cuts (Fog & Co)
"they geeked out and hit it off over music, a keen interest in coding languages, digital synthesis and electronically assisted genre fluidity, which they've translated into some thoughtful, seriously crafted alternative music. I like them."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 252 min read


Charbel Haber, Nicolás Jaar and Sary Moussa - Crashing waves dance to the rhythm set by the broadcast journalist revealing the tragedies of the day (Ruptured)
"This is a heavy album, but what would you expect from a recording utilising Tunefork Studios in Beirut as a conduit to remotely unite these artists during the Israeli aggression/response (delete as applicable)"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 302 min read


ghost and tape - Pardinyas (Dauw)
"despite my natural inclination towards the nonabrasive, palliative end of the ambient spectrum this is something of a Thai massage, a mildly unsettling but ultimately relaxing affair, and I like it a lot."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 231 min read


KapTep, Sebby Kowal - Switch (Ambient Cat)
"They kick things off with the shimmering, lower frequency quivering, field recording hinting, gently cascading tones of the well named, "404 Error Page Not Found" - something I'm sure we can all relate to"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 222 min read


Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms (International Anthem)
"The new album sees these studio neighbours embarking on another ethereal voyage of discovery to the land where ambient, new age, minimalism and classical meet"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 202 min read


Herbert & Momoko - Clay (Strut)
"Herbert for his part dusts off his warmer, less provoctive box of studio tricks to accentuate his studio partners soulful tones and loose rhythmic work"
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 152 min read


lynyn - 4m Hiero (Sooper)
"ambient layers sweeping you along until the track encounters choppy, deep space funking synths and stuttering IDM for a moment of mind opening intensity."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 102 min read


James Bright - Symphony In An Empty Room (Life on Earth)
whilst the dust is still settling on his album he's off on another trip with his sights set firmly on a galaxy far, far away, this is the stuff of Sci-Fi soundtrack dreams.
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 81 min read


Light Gestalt - Where the Light Gets In (PLX)
and the soundstage remains uncluttered and gently uplifting - more wellness imbuing than euphoric.
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 12 min read


soo:k - Grape Chariot (Swims)
The album flirts shamelessly with multiple ambient adjacent genres, exploring a shadow world where belief system energy ripples collide and swirl.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 302 min read


Theo Alexander & QOW - So Afraid To Show I Care (Danse Noir)
the live recordings again snipped, shaped, twisted and turned into sonic collage suitable scraps ready for the mother of all production efforts
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 193 min read


Alina Bzhezhinska - Warm Days, Cold Nights (Tru Thoughts)
Scene set the kick drum arrives to get the crowd swaying and heads nodding, welcome Bzhezhinska's spiritual approach and cheer the less holy, dubbed out electronics.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 161 min read


Purelink - Faith (Peak Oil)
“Circle of Dust” sprouts muted beats and even vaguely euphoric synth pads amongst the ambient dubiness, before the track morphs into the soul infused abstract machine haziness that they do better than most.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 162 min read


nosleeptuesday - dream escape (Denim Heart)
A late night hypnogogic atmosphere is promptly set, the perfect zone for the machine warped spectral voices to haunt.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 111 min read


Will Régnier - Smoke and Mirrors (Themes From Traces) [Self Release]
Kicking off with some minimal yet fluid drums and bass - both from the man himself, that anchor the ambient atmospherics, the low gravity sax of Julien Fillion drifts in from a happy place
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 91 min read


Joaquín Cornejo - Cabuya (Shika Shika)
he’s also got a fondness for fusing pan-Latin sounds with star gazing electronica, and for this new LP on the reliable Shika Shika label he’s marshalled quite the ensemble, made them some sandwiches and packed them off on a cosmic cruise.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 72 min read


Bruno Pronsato, Roméo Poirier, Memotone - Toinen Kaupunki (Sahko)
Sahko Recordings deserve a long service achievement award for outsider electronica over the decades and you have to admire their continued vision in getting these three boundary nudging artists to align.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 52 min read
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