Here’s an Apple music playlist, containing these albums, along with a bunch of others I enjoyed in 2021:
Top of 2021 – Top Albums
Top of 2021 – Top Albums – Ambient
1. Low – Hey What
No, you’re never gonna feel completeNo, you’re never gonna be releasedMaybe never even see, believeThat’s why we’re living in days like these againDays Like These
*Rated R Behold: a list of ambient albums and also songs, perfectly tailored for a year that tested the boundaries of our selfish resolve. Apple Music Playlist: Top of 2020 – Top Albums (Ambient)
11. Mary Lattimore – Silver Ladders
A classically trained harpist, Silver Ladders is Lattimore’s newest LP. Produced by Slowdive’s Neil Halstead, who had never recorded a harp before, at his studio…
Wim Wenders’ 5-hour-long, “ultimate road trip” film, Until the End of the Worldis something of a semi-dated curiosity. It portrays a rather startling prevision (from 1991) of what the future (in the film, 1999) would be like, with our omnipresent, audiovisual connection to the rest of the world via technology, and it also contains a kind of bleeding-heart romanticism for the power of dreams and…
Written & Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Starring Boris Karloff, Tim O’Kelly, Peter Bogdanovich, and Nancy Hsueh. And a bonus star, if you can spot him: Jack Nicholson, appearing in the film-within-the-film The Terror (1963), directed by Roger Corman and also starring Boris Karloff.
Targetsis the confident and bold directorial debut of cinematic wunderkind Peter Bogdanovich. Frank…
2019 saw the launch of The Criterion Channel and Disney+, a watershed moment for the availability of streaming content. While Disney clamps down and restricts, Criterion is out here making sure the masses have unfettered access to their fill of sacrilegious art-house cinema. Thanks in no small part to the no-holds-barred approach of Criterion, I present my favorite films (and TV) of 2019.
Yes, I managed to listen to over 120 albums in 2019. Streaming music subscription services can be a wonderful thing (for consumers, at least). Believe it or not, I still actually purchase music in physical formats, as well. At any rate, distilling those 120+ albums down to a serviceable “list” of favorites was no mean feat. Behold, my Top Albums of 2019:
A 2019 Year in Review list of albums that primarily skew towards the ambient, electronic, experimental and instrumental. I created a separate list for 2019 because I found myself increasingly turning to such records throughout the year. Part of the allure would definitely have to be the meditative, relaxing quality of many such recordings. Another might have been simply a kick I got on, after…
