Pop Ambient 2009 CD

KOMPAKT brings this new edition of our beloved POP AMBIENT series to the world. It was released as of Feburary 2009. I however didn't get my hands on it till about a month ago. The people at Kompakt, have most definitely delivered in the compliation. Pop Ambient 2009, the ninth installment in the series, marks a shift in aesthetics from previous volumes, moving away from deeply textured synth washes in favor of a slightly darker and more organic sonic palette.

Among the new recruits of Kompakt, everybody's favorite ambient-noise-postrock peripatetic, Tim Hecker, checks in briefly with a glacial episode of abrasive bit crushed post-Kosmische; "Shosts in Silver" lets fragments of piano recital drift into soft squalls, slowly swelling into waves breaking over scarred terrain. Debutantes, The Fun Years, inject new flavours with "I Am Speaking Through Barbara," making the most of the recursion of a gruzzy post-rock guitar figure, sweeping it back and forth, ramping and mussing it up with distortion and delay, fragments of voice and captured audio-detritus. A somewhat redundant addition, though, is Type-ist, Sylvain Chauveau, who contributes two pieces already aired on his Nuage full-length - "Fly Like a Horse" and "Nuage III" being equal parts ho-hum classical chamberism and humdrum laptop-folk pensiveness. (igloomag.com, 2009).

Sample of Pop Ambient 2009

Tracklist