Ambient

Highlights in popular music from 2015. Includes records by Lianne La Havas, Mika, Carly Rae Jepsen, Hot Chip, Seal, Janet Jackson and many more!

The second full-length album collaboration between Grammy-nominated pianist David Lanz and acclaimed vocalist Kristin Amarie.

‘Meaningless Words’ would make both for great background music or a centrepiece of a musical appreciation night.

Cut Copy, Joywave, and Pretty Lights led Saturday's lineup at TBD Festival 2015 in West Sacramento, California.

4AD's remasters of the legendary Scottish shoegazer/dream pop pioneers' two 1985 EPs and long out of print 1986 compilation on 180 gram vinyl are each a "treasure" to behold.

Whale Fall take listeners on the auditory equivalent of a journey up and down the west coast of the United States.

Neu Gestalt's 'Inside the Rain Chamber' is both beautiful and disconcerting, electronic yet oddly human.

I'm sure that you'll agree with me that this past year wasn't the greatest year in music history but it was a very damn satisfying one.

A mostly instrumental, experimental, post-rock album that puts together various musical influences in a way that sounds both unique and familiar.

A trippy rock-electronic trip into the mind of Brooklyn’s goste.