honest words on honest music
Each album carries its timeless essence, from seasonal reflections to unease and beauty. Each is a treasure within.
Joachim Spieth
Longing
“… slowly filtering through the sonic biotopes until the sounds extend across the spectrum in full frequency…”
September 29th, 2024
“… from ambient loops to prismatic space rock, explore new releases and an awesome label sampler…”
September 15th, 2024
“… explore new sonic landscapes with ambient, electro-acoustic, and cinematic soundscapes…”
Max Richter
In A Landscape
“… between the external and the internal, electronic and instrumental, the technological world against the natural world…”
Max Richter returns with his ninth studio album on Decca employing his minimalist approach to themes of the big questions of life and the quiet pleasures of living.
Jon Hopkins, Clark, µ-Ziq
“… from meditative journeys to visceral film scores and nostalgic breakbeats…”
Marcus Fjellström
Last Morning Watch VII.
“… a remarkable sonic line from contented exploration, to staggering decline, to death…”
Malcolm Pardon
Side Effects
“… just like the distressing notion of your own inevitable passing, it is disquieting, beautiful and final…”
Purple Decades
Completely Still
“… an invitation to slow down and contemplate the vastness of time and the universe…”
“… an important step for me regarding ideas is to not search for ideas…”
“… I look for good quality in almost anything. It’s more than just an aesthetics but a way of living in the world…”
Matt Emery
Hidden Tears In The Rain
“… traversing a landscape of personal and universal themes, painted with raw emotions…”
Kaito
Summer Ocean
“… perceiving the sadness of the memories alongside the pure beauty of nature…”
Kiasmos
II
“… eleven tracks of pure and lighthearted bliss, ideal to lift your spirits and quench the thirsty mind…”
The duo of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen are back with their follow-up on Erased Tapes triumphantly bridging cinematic and modern classical sound with micro-sculpted tech-house beats.
Joep Beving & Maarten Vos
The boat
“… reflecting on a period of introspection […] coming to terms with the events that have transpired…”
Julia Gjertsen, nonkeen, Unstern
Julia Gjertsen’s ambient piano melodies, nonkeen’s jazzy keys with Nils Frahm, and Unstern’s atmospheric debut…
“… the world is truly a canvas where we can identify some patterns and learn to appreciate its chaotic aspects…”
Dustin O’Halloran
1 0 0 1
“… an auditory exploration into the crossroads of artificial intelligence and our comprehension of existence…”
Beginning its life as a collaborative dance piece with choreographer Fukiko Takase, the new solo album on Deutsche Grammophon probes the deep questions surrounding nature, consciousness, technology, and the profound implications of AI.
Dustin O’Halloran
Blue Summer Mixtape
“… capturing the feeling of waiting for an Icelandic summer which leaves as suddenly as it arrives…”
Alva Noto
HYbr-ID Noh Talk
“… heterogeneous compositional methods that converge in music fusing geometries, dystopias and scientifc references…”
Illuvia
Earth Prism
“… an even keel of a floating buoy in the stormy weather of my mind…”
Listening to Illuvia is like waking up in a tent still covered with frosty dew to the sounds of the rave ongoing through the night. It’s a nostalgic feeling of my youth, and perhaps that’s just one of the reasons why I keep returning to this album.
“… the human sense of hearing does not perceive all sound, and there is much more unconsciously excluded sound in the world…”
Grand River and Abul Mogard
Sulle barcane
“… a vast, open space for the imagination to fill with reflection, contemplation, and abstract thoughts…”
“… I must be moved in some way; it doesn’t matter if for good or bad, positive or negative, as long as I’m emotionally involved…”
zakè, Mike Lazarev, øjeRum
contemporary ambiance
Mike Lazarev
Saturated Signals
“… a continuation of heavily layered synthesized and organic textures initially explored on Sacred Tonalities…”
“… a particular flavour of sonic tenderness which pulls on my heartstrings with a sombre reverberation of the keys…”
Jega, Yagya, Nils Frahm, Thom Yorke
Celebrating Headphone Commute’s many years of content, I am highlighting albums from the past…
Zságer Balázs, zakè, Josh Varnedore
“… rewinding the music I missed and fast forwarding to the music released in the future…”
Contemplative Classical
Love it or hate it, but I think Spotify is here to stay. In the last …
Snorri Hallgrímsson
The Girl in the Dark
“… blending a tragic quality of an intimate felted upright piano with the emotional weight of the orchestra…”
“… to foster creativity, it helps to understand how different phenomena appear in the universe…”
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Trance Anthems For A Sunken Generation
“… an aggressive inversion of euphoric sound […] fractured and beaten into submission…”
Dennis Huddleston smacks us in the face with his rawest emotion to date.
Ben Frost
Scope Neglect
“… frosty fragile fretful armadillo crawling on your naked back…”
The familiar aural chemistry of metal is immediately untethered, isolated in the vacuum, stripped of its cultural trappings and heavy armory, and loaded into a particle accelerator.