Isabel Pine debuts with Fables, a string-and-field-recorded suite that was released recently on Kranky. We asked Pine break her key musical influences.

Pine was able to conjure not only the environment she used for her recordings, but the emotions those surroundings impressed on her, transcending the usual field recording scenario.

As always with Hecker it’s emotional but rich and complex, allowing for multiple possibilities.

All the light and dark (noir) elements intertwine throughout, creating something that could be called positive grey, a musical feat rarely achieved these days.

It is all realistic, and they simply belong, here and now.

Even though this is her debut album, Niecy Blues does not leave but truly arrives.

This music is powerful and potent. It can lower heart rates and induce the most heartfelt emotions. Less Bells, that good.

If you’re fearless in the face of Shade, you’ll find within a hymn for good.

New set of lush abstracts from loscil is as rich, detailed and multilayered as we’ve come to expect.

The only uncertainty Because of a Flower leaves you with, in the end, is a question – can Ana Roxanne come up again with another album of such excellence and beauty.

It is music for the current age, a minor key masterpiece that may just become your soundtrack for this pandemic.

MJ Guider releases their new album Sour Bell Cherry today on Kranky. Sour Cherry Bell retains the glassy gauze of her debut, 2016’s Precious Systems, but shaded starker and darker, framed by mechanical rhythms and humid industrial moods. She speak …

Drawing on abstracted photographs of weather and achieving a similar suspended state. Colourless and indirect, natural and gently mesmerizing. Everything seems to unfold with the same essential rightness as the wind moving the clouds.

My first rendezvous was the lovely Cabaret Sauvage, set right along the Ourq canal running through the park, for an evening dedicated to ambient and experimental sounds. . .

Hecker is an extraordinary artist able to mould and sculpt sound in remarkable ways. Konoyo sees him again balance a wide range of emotions and textures into a beautiful, mysterious whole.

Fortunately Hecker hasn’t just nipped back to turn the volume up though. He and Matt Colton (of Alchemy Mastering) have approached these sessions with fresh ears and an apparent eagerness to find new rhythms and melodies buried within those original dronescapes. They tease out emotive leads from sunken dirges and, in the cases of ‘The Work Of Art In The Age Of Cultural Over Production’ and ‘7000 Miles’, beef up the noise to marrow-loosening levels.

An incredibly rich tapestry of detail, one that transcends the typical formalities of ambient music in the hope of creating a much richer landscape

A feeling of being pulled deep into the dark abyss of the ocean, slowly sinking as all light gradually disappears until there’s nothing.

It all moves seamlessly and effortlessly, gently pulling us into a world that feels incredibly pastoral, full of opaque colours where the detail is hidden behind veils of electronic hums and droning trumpets.

An ever evolving and transforming musical experience.

Hauschildt creates an enigmatic world where sounds naturally come to life before decaying once again