ACL 2016: Top Ten Ambient

There will always be hard days.  We will always need to be soothed.  But there is also great beauty in the world, which is where this genre makes a (quiet) impact.  The irony: some of this year’s ambient albums get loud.   Perhaps

Gidge ~ Lulin

Lulin is an intriguing left turn for Swedish duo Gidge, whose last appearance on our site was in the electronic section.  This time they’ve returned with a 24-minute film and 43-minute score, interrelated but not identical. The film in fact contains very