Ambient Music Reviews
Welcome.
This is a site for reviews and articles on contemporary ambient and related styles of music:
electro-ambient, groove-ambient, glitch, minimal, drone, down-tempo idm, experimental,
and other things that are broadly related to ambient.
A good place to begin is to click the + sign next to "Artists", this will open up a
list of artists. Then choose an artist to see particular albums reviews.
You can Submit Review articles even if you are not an official reviewer.
If they are deemed worthy they will be added to the published reviews. Be sure
to include your name, and also an email address if you want a response from us.
See the "About the Site" page for more details.
The site was started March 2008.
Latest Reviews
1: Falling Into The Sky (RM)
:THE CIRCULAR RUINS: If you're not already aware of Anthony Paul Kerby and his work as The Circular Ruins (among other projects) then I would like to draw your attention to his latest release, "Falling Into the Sky". Kerby has been making music for some time, and I would consider it to be some of the best in the ambient genre. His music has an intelligence and substance to it that I find very appealing, traits that are both readily apparent on "Falling Into the Sky".
2: Slow Promises (RM)
:THE WINTERHOUSE: "Slow Promises" by The Winterhouse is a new collaboration from Robert Davies and Anthony Paul Kerby of The Circular Ruins, and from my very first listen I can tell it's destined to become a classic in the ambient genre. Davies and Kerby have really connected with each other, creating a disc that references and draws from individual styles and themes, while simultaneously creating a unique identity for itself.
3: Blue Drawings and Text (AL)
:LARRY KUCHARZ: in part a kind sonic analogue of Mondrianesque minimalism and Reinhardtian reductionism, realised in shades of ambient blue
4: Timeless (AL)
:NUNC STANS: Timeless strikes an effective balance between the composed refinement of an older space music tradition and the grainier indeterminacy of contemporary experimental drone-ambient.
5: Sub Routine (AL)
:ENTIA NON: When a resonant synthesizer fragment is placed in a suspension of reverberant space, and the noise of something flapping, clanking or puttering is added, extreme ambience results.