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

Loula Yorke ~ Volta

The tone is ambient, the timbre electronic; Loula Yorke‘s modular synthesizer compositions create a trancelike state that is eminently relaxing, especially now that the occasional drums of Florescence have gone.  This is less of a sea change than a gentle shift,