New from Spotted Peccary Music, the Music Is Art Podcast "ALL HALLOW’S EVE – Dark Ambient Soundscape" a perfect playlist for Halloween moods and events. A screengrab from Spotted Peccary's new All ...

This 2013 dark ambient album is The Haxan Cloak’s second release, and also one of his very best. There are so many elements on this album that make it dreamy, dark, and even danceable, from drone to ...

A January release is perfect for Perverts – this is 89 minutes of haunted ambient music to listen to while staring at a freezing desolate wasteland and contemplate faith and death. Ethel Cain, aka ...

The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

I first discovered ambient music in college, when I was a late-night d.j. My show at the campus radio station started every Thursday at midnight and ran until five. From midnight through two-thirty, I ...

From soothing drones and chimes to the sound of rain gently tapping on the roof - ambient music is transforming the way people sleep, focus and relax. Once an esoteric 1970s genre, mood music ...

Ambient music has been on the rise in the streaming era. But with royalty reform and the threat of AI-generated sounds, its future is still uncertain. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer This analysis ...

Ambient music is a common tool people use to help themselves focus when working or studying. Its calming atmosphere makes it ...

In the face of crisis, our critic turned to music that demanded that she relinquish control. Alessandro Cortini, who started out as a multi-instrumentalist for Nine Inch Nails, is also known for his ...

William Basinski’s “Melancholia II” sounds like what might happen if despair itself walked into a studio and someone pressed the record button. Little pops poke through its smeared dreariness, like a ...