Once a week, Stack delivers a mix of the most interesting new music on the web, handpicked by the Hype Machine team. Here's a recent mix.
Latest arctic ambient tracks
Seefeel - Utreat
Futurism RestatedFollow “Seefeel’s Sarah Peacock and Mark Clifford (photo: Jonathan Wood, courtesy Warp Records) Seefeel are survivors. Yet they’ve also never really…” on Sep 3rd →
Llyn Y Cwn - Bryn Cader Faner
PopMattersFollow “This month’s best ambient/experimental releases yielded enough sublime music to send you drifting into transcendence for many moons to come.” on Apr 1st →
Llyn Y Cwn - Pentre Ifan
JoyzineFollow “‘Dark ambient’ is what Ben Powell calls the soundscapes he creates as Llyn Y Cwn*. He fuses field recording with…” on Mar 29th →
Llyn Y Cwn - Part 1
JoyzineFollow “It seems fitting that a night of molecule vibrating, alpha wave schmoozing, ambient sound and vision was held in the…” on Feb 3rd →
Glacial Anatomy - Phantasm
Headphone CommuteFollow “Shimmering Moods Records is an Amsterdam-based boutique ambient label which has been quietly releasing a bounty of eclectic music in…” on Oct 31st, 2023 →
Glacial Anatomy - The Path is short
a closer listenFollow “One of the pleasures of watching Montreal’s Florina Cassettes is matching their cover art with the original paintings. The young…” on May 6th, 2023 →
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo - Revolve
underratedFollow “Глава лейбла DiN Иэн Бодди и норвежский гитарист Эрик Вёлло в четвёртый раз объединили силы ради создания свежего LP “Revolve”.…” on Sep 20th, 2022 →
Biosphere - Microgravity
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Journeying through three decades of Geir Jenssen’s intrepid ambient experiments. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily.” on Jan 11th, 2021 →
Llyn Y Cwn - Cwm Cneifion
ToneshiftFollow “Llyn Y Cwn | Twll Du Cold Spring (CD/DL) Aside from the monolithic legends posed by the title this is…” on Aug 22nd, 2019 →
Tim Hecker - I'm Transmitting Tonight
Echoes and DustFollow “Fortunately Hecker hasn’t just nipped back to turn the volume up though. He and Matt Colton (of Alchemy Mastering) have…” on Jul 13th, 2018 →
Alan Morse Davies - View 2 (2003)
DoklandsFollow “Sticking with the south east Asian theme, here's a gorgeous pieces by Alan Morse Davies. It's part of a series…” on Jul 21st, 2013 →
Alan Morse Davies - How to Contact God When He's Out of Cellphone Range
DisquietFollow “Part of the underlying strength of the spoken word, of the word intended to be spoken even more than of…” on Mar 29th, 2013 →
Alan Morse Davies - Emporium Halls Pt. 4
DisquietFollow “Alan Morse Davies has been posting some of his earliest work recently. He’s associated with the process of slowing down,…” on May 2nd, 2012 →
Alan Morse Davies - Phase II-15 Type A
DoklandsFollow “Now this is just fantastic. Inspired by Steve Reich's phase shift music, Alan Morse Davies has taken to multitracking some…” on Feb 15th, 2012 →
Alan Morse Davies - EdgeÃya
DisquietFollow “ The music in recent years from Alan Morse Davies often has had the appeal of life, as well as thought,…” on Sep 30th, 2011 →
Alan Morse Davies - Wiki Wiki Gurdy
DoklandsFollow “Here at Doklands, composer Alan Morse Davies is best known for his exciting and dramatic take on minimalism, Night Falls…” on Sep 23rd, 2011 →
Alan Morse Davies - 17 - Cubic Sentient Ballroom
DisquietFollow “Alan Morse Davies has discerned that if you slow down Grieg it turns into Ligeti. That's not how he characterizes…” on Feb 3rd, 2011 →
Alan Morse Davies - Pygmy Polyphonics (Protracted)
DisquietFollow “Much of the music on Alan Morse Davies ’s recent album, It Is Glorious to Make Electricity for Socialism ,…” on Mar 23rd, 2010 →