Published on February 18th, 2010 by The Editor
Floating around In Orbit with Buttonmoon is like playing a bit-part role in a moodily soundtracked art-house sci-fi horror flick. Dark ambient industrial? Yup.
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Tags: ambient, Buttonmoon, electronic, In Orbit, industrial, psychedelic, soundscape, soundtrack
Published on February 11th, 2010 by The Editor
Self-professed international post-rock ambient explorers Hollow Branches take a coldly beautiful trip into the haze of memory on their Anchored In Sleep EP.
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Tags: ambient, Anchored In Sleep, Hollow Branches, post-rock
Published on February 1st, 2010 by The Editor
Blueneck are bigger than the term post-rock, so they say, but second album The Fallen Host is as canonical it could be, in all the best possible ways.
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Tags: ambient, Blueneck, post-rock, soundtrack, The Fallen Host
Published on November 3rd, 2009 by The Editor
Chicago duo-plus-one Russian Circles return with their third album, Geneva, taking their fluid post-metal compositions to new breadths of texture and emotion.
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Tags: ambient, Geneva, post-metal, post-rock, prog, progressive, Russian Circles
Published on October 22nd, 2009 by The Editor
Porcupine Tree head honcho Steven Wilson’s latest solo outing gets the ambient-drone soundscape treatment from a diverse set of knob-twiddlers on NSRGNTS RMXS.
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Tags: ambient, drone, electronic, NSRGNTS RMXS, progressive, rock, soundscape, Steven Wilson
Published on October 8th, 2009 by The Editor
Thanks to Obiat, your search for the musical equivalent of a hundred magic mushrooms and a bottle of whiskey is over. Eye Tree Pi; turn on, tune up, space out.
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Tags: ambient, doom, Eye Tree Pi, heavy metal, Obiat, post-metal, psychedelic, sludge
Published on April 11th, 2009 by The Editor
Polymathic metal legend Devin Townsend drops in to talk about his new album, KI, the demise of the major labels, and messages to alien civilisations…
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Tags: ambient, Devin Townsend, interview, KI, metal, prog, progressive
Published on November 24th, 2008 by Dave Saunders
Remember Remember adds another blissful notch to Glasgow’s ever-growing list of blissfully beautiful bands – found-sound post-rock, anyone?
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Tags: ambient, classical, post-rock, Remember Remember
Published on November 21st, 2008 by Dave Saunders
The Polyp EP features six tracks from Oxford art-rock outfit Youthmovies. The first one is good enough to balance out the pointlessness of the other five.
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Tags: ambient, Polyp, pop, post-hardcore, progressive, spoken word, weird, Youthmovies
Published on August 27th, 2008 by The Editor
Legendary progenitor of dark industrial ambient Lustmord returns with Other – a collection of moody post-apocalyptic soundscapes with some stellar guest guitarists.
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Tags: ambient, electronic, experimental, industrial, Lustmord, Other, soundtrack
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