dark ambient

Dean Hurley – Anthology Resource Vol II: Philosophy of Beyond (Sacred Bones)

Dean Hurley leaves the town of Twin Peaks behind with his second volume of reality-disintegrating ambient soundscapes under the Anthology Resource banner

Steve Nolan – From Water / Ream (Spun out of Control)

Steve Nolan’s double cassette set of ambient dream music opens up portals, reroutes neural pathways and unlocks associative trains of thought

Penelope Trappes – Penelope Redeux (Houndstooth)

Penelope Trappes’s 2018 LP has been laid out on the operating table, broken down and made anew by the likes of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Mogwai and Nik Void

Robert W Chambers – The Yellow Sign (Cadabra)

Anthony DP Mann reads the weird fiction Carcosan classic to a score by Goblin keyboard manipulator Maurizio Guarani on this reissue from Cadabra Records

Cosey Fanni Tutti – TUTTI (Conspiracy International)

TUTTI is an abstract autobiographical study rendered in dark, sensuous electronics that conveys a hallucinatory experiencing of the past in the present

Bank of Forever – Music for Navigating (Temporary Tapes)

Bank of Forever’s post-industrial transmissions from slow rooms are maze-like staging areas that dismantle cause and effect

Penelope Trappes – Penelope Two (Houndstooth)

Penelope Trappes’s second album delivers beautifully unsettling art installation dream pop while exploring interior worlds and minimal industrial zones