Jon Hopkins’ relationship with Brian Eno goes back two decades. They were introduced by Hopkins’ friend, Leo Abrahams, who was working with Eno at the time, and the three men went on to release a ...

This was the first in a series that also includes Ambient 2: The Plateaux ... Unlike in 1/1, the piano is not slowed down, so its timbre is (relatively) normal. There’s an arpeggiated chord mixed in ...

Hayden Anhedönia, professionally known as Ethel Cain, is tired of being famous. She took to Tumblr with a scathing critique, sharing how glib comment sections and the increasingly common “mother” ...

Finding influence in ambient music and the sub-genre slowcore ... is one of the more accessible songs. A simple 4-chord piano progression runs the duration. Cain delivers the lyrics in ghostly ...

And that is the suggestion that his personal unhappiness made those pre-A Ghost Is Born records “better.” I didn’t mean it ...

Follow along as pop music critic Mikael Wood and staff writer August Brown discuss the 2025 Grammys' biggest winners, best ...

Stankonia itself was also a grammy winner for best rap album and still stands up as one of the greatest of all time. From the ...

Talk about being selective, but the Pulitzer Arts Foundation has precisely three items in its permanent collection (if you don’t count the Tadao Ando-designed building itself). One of them is Rock ...

Prog writer Sid Smith pays tribute to the former Soft Machine founder and keyboard player Mike Ratledge, who sadly died after ...

With dark-ambient chords and buzzing distortions littering the release ... A slowcore song at just under seven minutes long, starts with a despondent piano accompanying Cain’s voice as she laments “I ...

It has bar chimes, piano, swelling orchestration and the most reverb-heavy tremolo picking I’ve heard in a very long time. There are choral vocals bedded deep in the mix, and some satisfying, if ...

It provides a gorgeous ambient soundscape of retro synthesizers ... interrupted by harmonically-interesting R&B chords played on a piano. On brand with Ariana’s artistry and musical image ...