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Seth Thorn - a curious doubling of terms (Audiobulb) [Ambient]
"The album starts in fine ambient fashion, easy drones rising and falling like a summer tide as waves of static fold into the swell"
The Slow Music Movement
Oct 42 min read


Saltbreaker - Glass Aviary Remixes (Astrologic)
"an admirable attempt to map the gentler paths that snake through the ambient, new age and modern classical multiverses"
The Slow Music Movement
Sep 112 min read


Lagoss & Abagwagwa - Island Slang (Discrepant)
"constructing a barrage of polyrhythmic percussion and layering the highly flammable rhythms with deviant dark room rave primed electronica and low frequency pressure,"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 292 min read


SYLIANRUE - Reflection (Self Release)
a gentle, graceful and ever so lovely ambient neoclassical arrangement that should be on every introvert's contemplation playlist.
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 222 min read


kita kouhei - 北航平 - Idealism Ⅲ (Neuf)
"Kouhei naturally uses a more acoustic, percussive sound palette of mini-rattles, quick shakes and one hit wonders, the compositions are equally as far-out"
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 162 min read


Almost An Island - Almost An Island (PITP)
"The album is a collaborative triumph that blurs the lines between song and soundscape, and might even be that rare thing, an ambient project that looks, as well as sounds good on a stage."
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 122 min read


Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero - Aunque llegue la mañana (Noray)
" the album fittingly weaves its way along dusty, rosemary strewn, electroacoustic Andalusian paths, planting the seed of a new genre that we can only hope germinates in the region’s sun baked landscape. "
The Slow Music Movement
Aug 42 min read


Farah Kaddour & Marwan Tohme - Ghazel (Ruptured)
"this album, recorded between the Tunefork studio in Beirut and Tohme's home in the Lebanese mountains, is a perfect melting pot of rural, urban, traditional and innovative."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 312 min read


Markus Mehr - form (Hidden Shoal)
"unidentified samples and odd machine noises pepper the recording, making the mildly dissonant piano sound positively melodic."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 312 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


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


R&D - I'll Send You A Sign (Ruination)
!This album is perfect start of the day music, just as well really as I’m writing about it at 5.45am."
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 142 min read


John Swanke - Horizon Lines (Bud Tapes)
insistent acoustic motifs twist in on themselves, hypnotising all those within earshot before fading out to let the drone have its moment in the sun and show off it's lysergic charm.
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 42 min read


Đurđija Vucinic - Under Deconstruction (Self Release)
the EP opening track's mimnimal piano is blended with a field recording of what sounds like an evangelical sermon and reversed sounds, so keep an open mind.
The Slow Music Movement
Jul 21 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


Tomas Raae & Eline Hellerud Åsbakk - ...før de spredtes (Kontentum)
his selfless approach leaves the focus on Åsbakk, whose voice rings pure and true from the instrumental gloom, deftly traversing centuries and breathing new life into these songs
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 222 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


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


Cory Cullinan - 2025 Alive (Pictoria)
This is a hell of an audio visual production that only really makes sense when it's seen and heard. It looks like Adam Curtis might just have some competition from this family in Colorado.
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 73 min read


James Osland & Andrew Heath - Petrichor (Fluid Audio)
a stunningly constructed blend of field recordings, minimal piano and ambient textures that will keep the attentive headphone clad listener busy
The Slow Music Movement
Jun 11 min read


Joy Guidry - Five Prayers (Jaid)
The album is a start to finish meditative joy, a welcome return from Guidry and an auspicious start to her label.
The Slow Music Movement
May 282 min read


Various Artists - Shadow Garden (blush)
It’s a pleasingly off-kilter collection of darker ambient hues and quirky songs that inhabit a distinctly underground bunker, but which sit together very nicely as a cohesive listen.
The Slow Music Movement
May 263 min read


Aki Himanen - Where Skies End (Super Sound Design)
but man and machine soon start to swirl and synergise, weaving cosmic patterns that slowly unlock your doors of perception so you too can see the light
The Slow Music Movement
May 221 min read
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