There's an offshoot of the British electronic group the Future Sound of London called Amorphous Androgynous, and that phrase accurately describes another English band, Seefeel. Led by ...

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 ...

A jarring, buzzing sound didn't exactly provide the kind of ambiance electronic artist Moby was seeking to create for the background of a telephone interview. "If you hear that terrible noise in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...