Brad Ross-MacLeod, Free Floating
I am a big fan of long form pieces because I often find that abstract drifting ambient music works best when the material has time to grow and stretch out organically. While not all soundscapes lend themselves to such treatment, the long, slow and deliberate tones of this piece take excellent advantage of the space that Lahiff gives them to breathe. He strikes the right balance between constant, glacial tones and smatterings of sonic frosting that show up occasionally to provide some contrast and foreground focus to the track. While I would definitely hesitate to categorize this as “dark ambient”, I would have to say that there are aspects of the sound that can be, at times, ominous. |
