It is time for New Music Friday. This week, we have got ambient jazz harp, late-aughts nostalgia and the return of a hip-hop legend. And that is where we're going to start handing it over to Daoud ...

When Roxy Music keyboardist Brian Eno and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp first put together two Revox tape recorders in 1973, making it possible to build layer-upon-layer of sound, the result was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Co-hosted by Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel and Reviews Editor Jeremy D. Larson, and featuring guest critics and contributors, our weekly podcast includes in-depth analysis of the new music we find ...

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 ...

Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. And finally today, to create a ...

Working from home, as many of us are now doing, can be a drag. Sat on your sofa and hunched over a laptop, going from video call to video call, it’s important to do what you can to make the days go by ...

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 ...

Despite what we’re sometimes led to believe, jazz hasn’t been relegated to the halls of academia, it isn’t background music, and it certainly isn’t dead. It’s constantly in the DNA of the music that ...

What exactly is ambient music? That’s not such a simple question to answer. While the genre of ‘ambient’ is fairly well established, the exact rules of what makes something ambient aren’t rigidly ...