A nice listen, and definitely the most modern sounding of Eno's Ambient series. It feels a lot closer to the "Dark Ambient" sound that's the more pervasive style, which is cool, but it's still not my favorite out of the series.

Enjoyable sounds, but nothing crazy. It's pretty low stakes and doesn't do anything crazy; by no means is it not a pleasant listen.

I think my apathy towards this album is definitely a me thing, because this is a fairly well made project. I just don't really feel strongly about anything on here and the music itself is just kind of whatever. I think my entire opinion on this album can just be summer up as thinking it's whatever, I kind of struggle to articulate my opinion beyond the fact that it's not for me.

I definitely enjoy it, but I feel pretty much the same as I do about Sticky Fingers. I like the Blues Rock stuff, love the Folk Rock stuff, and dislike the Country Rock stuff. Unfortunately for this album, it does lean a little more into that Country side even when it does have gems like You Can't Always Get What You Want.

Extremely beautiful, but I admire it a lot more from a production perspective than from a songwriting perspective. I have a general issue with Shoegaze mixing being completely unintelligible, and this album does an amazing job at avoiding that, the loud and distorted moments still pummel you without fucking up the mix, and that's something I really like about this record. The guitar tones across this record are legendary, that's honestly the main thing that stuck with me; none of ... read more

A fairly enjoyable sound, but one that gets kind of dragged out. Everything about it is nice, but I'm not blown away. I enjoy the low fidelity aspect of it and I think everything about this album that works leads to the softer songs being far and away the best. The melodies and atmosphere just hit especially hard on tracks like Tezeta and Ené alantchi alnorem; my two favorites.

Extremely beautiful without overdoing it. I completely adore how lush this album is and I think it's fascinating how that sense of density is achieved via washes of cold synths rather than a traditional method. It's simultaneously so cold and desolate while still being beautiful of comforting; very interesting. The actual execution of the music is good with it sometimes running too long or with too little variation, but such is the way of Ambient music, so I can't complain too ... read more

A super daunting listen, but a fairly rewarding one. The first disk is very hit or miss for me; it simultaneously contains my absolute favorites from here and songs I really couldn't stand. The sound collage stuff on here is okay, I'm not opposed to it but sometimes it serves as more of a detractor. In contrast, Disk 2's main issue is being way too consistent, these songs (despite being beautiful) completely blend together and any given song doesn't really do anything ... read more

Classic Reich minimalism, a very fun and simultaneously engaging listen for something so repetitive. I generally like the sound and atmosphere that his larger ensemble pieces created, and that remains true here, but the Violin Phase is honestly magical with the entire concept of phase music just being really interesting.

VERY fun album! There's not a dull moment on this entire album and I consistently found myself simultaneously impressed and content. It's absolutely weird and verges into other genres, but the core Art-y Ambient Pop Indietronica is amazing.

A lot more simple than Dan's debut under Giles Corey, but still stylistically and thematically interesting. I actually prefer the production and some of the musical work on here, but it's just a lot smaller in scale and scope which makes it (for good reason) fall behind the monolithic release that the self titled album was.

A very dark, depressing, and beautiful project. Some of the moments are oftentimes too stripped back for my taste but the best parts of this album (in my opinion) are the lush climaxes that songs like Spectral Bride leads to.

It's amazing in it's best moments (the obvious ten minute long standouts come to mind), but it's inconsistent and often incoherent. I enjoy the experimental side of this record and oftentimes the drone heavy moments are my favorites, but there's also a fair amount of fat on any record as dense as this, and those moments bring the record down for sure.

Just cool noisy glitch stuff, it's not super complex but I really enjoy how strong it can be. The textures on tracks like A Name With No Horse are completely pummeling in the best possible way.

It's not always great and frequently a little difficult to follow, but it's a consistently and extremely interesting project with a handful of different sounds at it's disposal.

Beautiful synth-y New-Age stuff, it's nothing boundary pushing but it's a very nice execution of the sound. Eight simple enough compositions with some very warm feeling harmonies and melodies.

Really awesome textural work, this is some of the most effective work I've heard at creating really interesting soundscapes that blend loud and soft dynamics as well as light and dense layering. It's only flaw is that at it's core it's very formulaic and the songs usually just evolve pretty linearly upwards into a gradual come down kind of outro. It's not perfect, but still an amazing album and an enjoyable listening experience.

It's cool but nothing crazy, it's mostly saved by the title track which is a really fun and jaunty track. Everything I said about the last two records is applicable here but just a little worse.

A nice listen for anyone who likes ambient, but I'd hardly say it blew me away. I get the impression from what I've heard by him that Basinski's music is very minimalistic and atmospheric even in terms of ambient/drone music, which is cool, but not necessarily my thing.

A lot more of a generic release than Nina's debut album, but still a nice time nonetheless. Some moments can be kind of dry and most of this album falls into a very overdone Big Band sound, but tracks like Children Go Where I Send You, That's Him Over There, and Solitaire keep this fresh. (As well as Nina's solid vocal, although it's slightly less amazing here and It would be redundant for me to mention it every review.)