ACL 2024 ~ Top Ten Ambient

Approximately 4000 instrumental albums were submitted for review this year, nearly half of them ambient.  To reach the summit is like climbing up the hill on the cover of Hollie Kenniff’s For Forever.  The competition has never been so fierce

ACL 2024 ~ The Happiest Music of the Year

We all need happy music: music to lift our moods, raise our spirits and distract us from our problems. These ten albums provide a wide range of panaceas, from peaceful reassurance to high-energy cheer. Happy artists don’t ignore the world’s

Dalot ~ Aquarium

Dalot‘s Aquarium is a delightful album that can be read on a number of levels: as a diary of parenthood, an ecological parable or a celebration of summer.  Or one might simply take it at face value: the story of a lionfish