As you become accustomed to his way of compiling and adapting each part, you start to hear the story being told, a quixotic narrative driven by our desire to exist fully in a single moment, and the consequences of this yearning.
Snippets of violin, saxophone, flute, guitar, and piano all flit around one another, finding recesses within the ambient framework of each track and revealing remarkable nuance in his handling of each separate musical element. Stop and Think About It, his latest collection, accumulates its powerful reckoning as each piece is carefully moved into place.
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But rather than feeling as though we’re simply hearing a series of contrasting wavelengths being played over one another, he corrals this wild noise into something strikingly original. Blending ambient, industrial, jazz, rock, and hints of other futuristic histories, he molds a sound that blurs the boundaries between all these different influences. Stockholm electronic artist Addictionproblem revels in the freedom that comes from unburdening himself with the weight of genre expectation. Listen to a Spotify playlist of our favorite tracks from our Ambient Albums of 2021 here.Īddictionproblem – Stop and Think About It The genre is often seen as the brainchild of Eno, but its future is in the hands of artists who see the devastation and beauty resting within its nebulous depths. It’s important to realize that ambient music isn’t just riffs on new age whimsy or a parade of weightless platitudes – these records possess an unfailing sense of musical history, and of their place within that history. Some of the albums listed here found themselves in a few of our other year-end lists, but it felt necessary to shine a spotlight on a wider range of releases that challenged our preconceptions about music as much as they wowed us with their technical and emotional intricacies. But there are darker, noisier avenues through which these sounds can travel, revealing staticky, aberrant textures, and atonal rhythms highlighting the inherent malleability of the genre. Synths can swirl and dissolve, creating a comforting soundscape where experience and emotion can work themselves out under loose supervision. Whether you’re looking for something to act as background noise or as something slightly more participatory, ambient music provides infinite nuance for whatever mood you happen to be hosting. Brian Eno once said that “ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” For decades, artists have used that as a guideline for their own musical experiments, approaching the genre without reserve or constraint, finding new ways to use these sounds as subtle and elemental forms of communication.
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