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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Los Angeles-based electronic artist Laurel Halo features contributions from Bendik Giske, Lucy Railton, Coby Sey, and James Underwood.
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- Record Label: Awe
- Genre(s): Electronic, Ambient, Experimental Ambient
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Oct 5, 2023Some of the most affecting ambient music of the year, and perhaps even the very best in Halo's rich, unpredictable catalogue.
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Sep 22, 2023A thoroughly worthwhile listen for ambient fans that value a narrative.
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Dec 1, 2023Atlas is ambient neoclassical at its finest; stirring and introspective without succumbing to sameness, furthering Laurel Halo’s extensive, unpredictable influence on experimental and electronic traditions.
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Sep 22, 2023Even though the idea of listening to another quarantine-inspired ambient record might seem off-putting, the rewards are simply too tempting.
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Oct 4, 2023On first listen Halo’s compositions tend to merge into one another, a blur of impressions like looking down on a cloud dappled landscape or passing buildings through a rain smeared train window. The atmospheres are foggy, drenched but rich, infused with the apparent illogic of dreams whose significance must be pieced together with hindsight from clues obvious and obscure.
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Sep 25, 2023While her latest work may share a bit of sonic ground with contemporary drone-based artists such as Ellen Arkbo, Kali Malone, or Sarah Davachi, none of them create music quite as fluid or as wide-screened as the sounds heard here.
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The WireSep 22, 2023Atlas is entirely ambient, a slipstream that moves in slow motion using dense atmospheres to confuse the listener, who is only momentarily permitted to take a specific position. The closing composition “Earthbound” guides us back towards the ground, but any sense of spatial awareness is already too skewed and you are left to wade your way through the remnants of sonic fog. [Sep 2023, p.56]