Vintage synths swirl, sometimes in epic fashion, loosening your grip on reality to help achieve a positive outcome.

The ambient universe is vast, but Samson has done an admirable job of mapping the warmer, solar blessed end of it in just six tracks.

If house music purity is your thing or you just need some chilled beats then look no further.

just kick back and sink into these beautifully crafted, cinematic, jazzy and funktified interpretations

The original ethereal vocals are then melted down into machine pads for extra ambiguity

The new album is his lushest and fullest realisation of his constantly morphing, gently experimental, string rich sound.

It's one of the freshest jazz LPs you'll hear this year and I highly recommend you get with the Finnish space program.

On its own the lyrical content and vocal depths might have been enough, but fortuitously it's also the most psychedelic track on the LP.

Oh Brazil I love your music and your land. In 2006 I needed to decompress after nine years of London life and headed over to Colombia for...

The LP is nothing less than sonic shock and awe, the tracks threaded with metal guitar

as sun baked ambling Americana meets unhurried country, classic vibes hang out with the outsiders

There’s a real folkiness to proceedings with Phillips falsetto urged higher by the acoustic guitar picking and post modern piano tinkling

Their output has never strayed from the psychedelic funk arena

Sounding like a Daily Mail headline or Faragian sound bite, the intriguingly named France, You're on Your Own are Liverpool based Mayan...

impeccable ambient electronics that provide the synthetic thermals to elevate their acoustic colleagues

the deep soulfulness and quality are very real

The three singles suggested the LP would be some sort of cosmic acid-folk affair, so I wasn’t anticipating this wild ride

join the dots between Americana, jazz, the softer side of AOR, blues and good natured singer songwriting

The recording is a textural feat with notes appearing in glorious isolation, or exquisite refrains repeated to perfection

both artists head intuitively into hazy, warm and blissful territory, their contributions melting into, then unhurriedly infusing

But what really marks the LP out is her willingness to take those traditions and influences and give them a twist or ten

Whitelabrecs is a great ambient label. Run by Harry Towell, himself a respected ambient artist

They're admirably focussed on bringing the golden age of twentieth century orchestra crooning & silky blue eyed soul into the 20th century

It's a multiple emotion tugging slice of forward looking folk noir not noir that deserves your attention