Reminds me of the Roly Porter album last year on Subtext. Better than Inland (previous output). Great stuff!
not ambient but for lack of a better place & because all of you will appreciate this gorgeous minimalist masterpiece read the story behind it when you have a minute
Yeah, seconding this recommendation: it's possibly my favorite album released this year. I love the other recordings of this piece, but this one wallops me emotionally every time I listen to it in a way the others don't.
always a treat: https://acloserlisten.com/2021/12/23/acl-2021-the-top-20-albums-of-the-year/ happy new year to the best chorus thread!
It's 40 years this year since the first Cocteau Twins album and Robin's still writing music I like. Truly one of my favourite songwriters.
Alright, here is my unranked list of favorite ambient records of 2021! I still have a lot to listen to so I'm excited to see everyone else's lists Biosphere - Angel's Flight Celestial - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night Black Swan (Drones for Bleeding Hearts) - Repetition Hymns Marta Mist - Longform GAS - Der Lange Marsch Alex Albrecht - Campfire Stories Jefre Cantu- Ledesma and Ilyas Ahmed - You Can See Your Own Way Out Chihei Hatakeyama - Late Spring Hollie Kenniff - The Quiet Drift Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against the Dusk Celer - Malaria, Ceylon, Sunspots Bvdub - Hard Times, Hard Hearts Green-House - Music for Living Spaces Son of Chi - The Transition Recordings Ironomi - Four Nocturnes Yagya - Always Maybe Tomorrow other excellent albums: S A D - Children of the Sun Leif - 9 Airs Grouper - Shade Shuta Yasukochi - Wishful Thinking Woo - Play the Blues Pan Daijing - Jade 玉观音 Wolfgang Voigt - Rückverzauberung Exhibition Alex Somers - Siblings 1 and 2 William Tyler and Luke Schneider - Understand Robert Farrugia, A Lily, Benoit Pioulard - Voicemail Arash Akbari - Fragments of Yearning Adam Pacione - Any Way, Shape, or Form Blush to the Snow - everything since their self-titled Paperbark - Inhaling Mist Illuvia - Wild Origins Lyndsie Alguire - The Pause in You Yu Su - Yellow River Blue Elori Saxl - The Blue of Distance
Thanks to the MVPs of the thread @OotyPa, @0rb and @Horrorca Always love when there's a new post in here.
Been listening to this a lot since I saw Philip Sherburne tweet about it, what he described as “beautiful, deep, shape-shifting drones that inch right up to the edge of melody without ever tipping over into it”: Also spending this morning listening to the new Parannoul side project, mydreamfever. Not quite ambient, but it’s close enough. Lush stuff. The piano parts and the vibe kind of remind me of Ironomi but more . . . grand?
Not what I'd quite classify as 'ambient' but kudasai always soothes. New EP out today. Not even nine minutes long
Still waiting on those 2021 ambient AOTY lists from you guys! It's been somewhat of a dry season for this genre lately.
This was my unranked end of year list in the overall thread. A bunch of ambient albums in there. The ambient albums in there (no particular order): Gi Gi - Lumino Pleco alva noto - HYbr:ID I Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XXIII Alex Albrecht - Campfire Stories Ohama - Arts Commons Soundscape, Pt IV Supplemental Owl - Infinite Horizon Wladimir Schall - 42'37'' A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Invisible Cities
Looking back at my Bandcamp purchases over the past year + whatever else came to mind . . . in no real order: Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Riki Hadaka - 置大石 Mary Lattimore + Growing - GAINER claire rousay - a softer focus emily alison zhou - blue hour Brin, Dntel, More Eaze - Futurangelics Olivia Block - October, 1984 Jim O'Rourke - steamroom 53 The Humble Bee - You are My Geographic Range Ulla - Limitless Frame Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk M. Sage - Wants a Diamond Pivot Bright Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals Celestial - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night Space Afrika - Honest Labour Fuubutushi - Shiki (in lieue of choosing one specific album) & their Longform Editions piece, "Good Sky Day" Gas - Der Lange Marsch Abul Mogard - In Immobile Air Minced Oath - Superstrate Leif - 9 Airs Grouper - Shade Definitely lots of overlap with the other lists posted already, and some of these may stretch the definition of "ambient."