Ambient
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If you’ve been lucky enough to enjoy Benjamin Finger’s work as a DJ or electronic music producer, you already know that he is an accomplished, imaginative artist. The Oslo, Norway-based composer has been recording music since 2005. That’s alongside his work as photographer and film maker. This new album – his 11th – is a kind of…
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At the risk of judging a book by its cover, British duo Pausal’s latest disc comes very nicely wrapped. It features an opulent, abstract piece that sets high expectations for the music inside. You won’t be disappointed. Alex Smalley and Simon Bainton describe Pausal as an “audio and visual art project.” There’s no pretense here.…
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Hanoi’s Nhung Nguyen says this new EP is based on two lengthy piano improvisations she recorded in 2015 and 2016. If that makes you crave a ticket to see this prodigious young artist perform an improv set live, you’re not alone. The five pieces on this new recording are mesmerizing. Nguyen is a modern classical…
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I’m worried about James Beardmore’s teeth. I cannot be certain that there is a problem. His dentist may well read this and lodge a complaint with the BADD PRESS client experience department. I’m betting that won’t happen though, after hearing Beardmore’s new single under the name CARES. If ever there was a track that captured…
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We have been instructed to listen to ps’s new album at 3 am, alone. Filipe Cruz, the man behind the initials, offers just one note of caution: “use headphones.” It’s not bad advice. There is a lot to listen to here, on this 11th album from ps. Volatile is a detailed, intricate work that…
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Maël Madec is In Love With A Ghost. This is something of a secret. Which isn’t right. In Love With A Ghost is the sweetest, most evocative music project I’ve heard since I returned to music writing last winter. Not sweet as in saccharine. Quite the reverse. This is all-natural, good-for-you sweet. The kind that will…
The Moderns 