“Ambient” is an adjective increasingly used to describe music of all kinds, and the boundaries of the genre the word used to signify are becoming more porous all the time. The primary criterion for ...

Maybe you're trying to calm down after a stressful day at work. Maybe you're anxious about COVID-19 vaccine hesitation. Or maybe you're simply trying to lull yourself into falling asleep at night. All ...

William Basinski’s “Melancholia II” sounds like what might happen if despair itself walked into a studio and someone pressed the record button. Little pops poke through its smeared dreariness, like a ...

I’m trying to focus on this record, Carter Thomas’ Sonoma—a mid-’80s UK pressing with a trilogy of early ’70s pieces, all done solely on Buchla and Serge equipment, all gorgeous. Deep, resonant ...

Apple has introduced a significant enhancement with the release of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the integration of ambient music directly into the Control Center. This feature is designed to complement ...

Discover five lesser known ambient music albums from the 1990s to take your mind off things. At the beginning of the year, the essential Music from Memory label issued Virtual Dreams: Ambient ...

In the face of crisis, our critic turned to music that demanded that she relinquish control. Alessandro Cortini, who started out as a multi-instrumentalist for Nine Inch Nails, is also known for his ...

Moby released a new album, Ambient 23, on Sunday. Earlier in the month, the musician announced the LP, explaining that the 16-track set is inspired by his early ambient heroes, including Martyn Ware, ...

OS 26.4 was released last month, and it includes a couple of new features for CarPlay: an Ambient Music widget and support for voice-based chatbot apps. To update your iPhone 11 or newer to iOS 26.4, ...

The upcoming iOS 18.4 update for the iPhone adds an Ambient Music feature to Control Center. Below, we take a closer look at how it works. iOS 18.4 is currently in beta, so the Ambient Music feature ...