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ko.valainen’s life is an experimental electronic album with a severe concept: human emotion translated into machine language. The Brooklyn artist frames the record as a passage through different states of life, using coded chess movements as titles. Birth, childhood, desire, isolation, fragmentation, decay, and death become sound systems, each one unstable in its own way….
Kirk Monteux’s Total Tranquility is relaxation music with a direct function. The German composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist behind Mysoftmusic has worked in television, film, and advertising, then built a catalogue used in relaxation apps, wellness programs, spa treatments, and yoga classes. This album follows that path through eleven instrumental pieces made for stress relief, meditation,…
Ocoeur’s Greener Grass, Clearer Water is a quiet record about scale. Franck Zaragoza, the French composer behind the project, has spent years shaping electronic and ambient music for n5MD, with work that also reaches into video games and documentaries. His new album is described as beatless, environmental, and tied to the eco-ambient thread of Breath….
Yulyseus’ Nothing Under Heaven is ambient music that asks for patience before it gives anything back. The album does not deal in hooks or obvious peaks. It works through warm pads, long tones, low movement, and small changes that become important because everything else is so still. “Veillands” gives the record its first real mass….
Susan Style is a Taiwanese producer and singer-songwriter based in London, writing and producing her own material and treating this debut as a personal record shaped by leaving Taipei for London. She also worked with Max Heyes on the mix, a detail that matters here because these tracks move between club-ready drums and stranger, more…
RMHNDRX has already proved he can do sharp, anxious electronic pop with YUKS, but The Hole sits in a quieter corner of his world. It feels closer to someone working late with the lights low, following half-formed ideas and stray memories instead of hooks. The Murakami influence he talks about is easy to hear: this…
Carla Patullo has made a name scoring for film and television, but her solo records come from a more personal place. Her 2024 album “So She Howls” was born from a near-death experience and won a Grammy for its blend of ambient textures and raw emotion. On Nomadica, she goes somewhere even harder to reach:…
Marc Gundermann has spent years working behind the scenes in Berlin’s music circles. With Konsole, his debut solo EP, he pulls together recordings from the last five years into a focused release that sits somewhere between ambient, noise, and experimental electronics. It was made in home studios across Berlin, Santa Barbara, and Amsterdam, often using…
Katy Jarzebowski has spent the last decade scoring everything from documentaries to ballets, and her debut album FEATHERS pulls directly from that experience. Originally written for a pandemic-era ballet, the six tracks now stand alone as a kind of experimental suite—one that blends orchestral tools with sound design tricks and a willingness to let weird…
London-based artist Vellum Hill wrote the material for Songs for a Scattered Classroom during a month-long songwriting course with Brian Eno. The EP is a direct product of that process — built around oblique prompts, tight deadlines, and a rare burst of momentum. Unlike the artist’s usual years-long pace, these tracks came together in weeks….