His music, which has always been unnervingly emotional, full of shifting, ambient textures, doesn't require language to convey joy or pain.
In support are the similarly gender-querying pair of Oliver Ho and Danny Passarella, premiering their collaborative release MULTI, an often-beatless 12-inch full of stately ambient processions, with more propulsive stuff from Ho playing live in his Broken English Club guise.
Full of pensive ambient textures, much of the record sounds like a microscopic string section packed into a scallop shell tumbling around the current.
It is therefore important to examine the ORC machine performance over a full range of ambients.
Not Attending -- Active Child: Black Cat. It have have been an EP that catapulted Pat Grossi to relative indie stardom, but it's a full length album of ambient goodness that will keep Active Child a mainstay in those circles.
Least likely to: Make a second album of ambient chilltronica full of little fluffy beats and sheep bleats.
Life on and off the grid was full of free booze and ambient awareness, with social maps on iPhones lighting the way.
Its Twinkle is taken from the recently released His Jewelled Letter Box EP and is full of radiant guitar melodies, ambient bells, airy synths and more reverb than any respectable song has the right to use.
But he also has an extensive catalog of his own albums of songs and ambient music, full of ideas and sounds that have been periodically rediscovered.
TIM HECKER The composer Tim Hecker, whose heavyweight and nearly spiritual music is full of drones, repetition, natural echo and ambient death-chill, has apparently removed some of the distortion and sonic muting that marked his earlier work, like the great "Ravedeath, 1972," from 2011; the new one, "Virgins" (Kranky) includes woodwinds and synthesizers.
