Atmospheric Music - Here, Have Some

On 10/21/2014 at 10:04 PM by Blake Turner

Blake's Musical Moments stuff blog thing - you know the drill. Well, the two of you who actually read these blogs haha. The focus this time is on the atmosphere. So have some.

Kayo Dot - Mortality of Doves

Wtf. Who the fuck spilt Peter Gabriel era Genesis and Sisters of Mercy into my Kayo Dot? This is about as 80's as one can get and not be a modern indie rock album. It's awesome too. They seem to be trying to evoke the 80's vision of grim cyberpunk - ala Bladerunner - and it's working. This is atmospheric, surprisingly poppy for Kayo Dot (there's still no traditional verse/chorus structure, but it's catchy and easier on the ear than their usual black metal/chamber music/post rock/jazz combo), and... um, it's just all round a great track.

Ahab - Aeons Elapse

Do you like Doom metal? If you do, you may have heard of this band. They've done an album about Moby Dick, and now they're moving onto Edgar Allen Poe territory. For this album, they've eased off the heaviness a bit as there's far more clean vocals and clean guitars. However, it is still heavy, and it's still atmospherically sorrow inducing.

Jesu - Conquerer

Was that last track a touch to depressing for you? Okay, have some FUCKING JESU to cheer you up. Look, if you haven't heard of Jesu, you should probably have a slap on the wrist. They aren't exactly an obscure band, and I've heard this track in a ton of movies. It's still amazing though.

Isis - Wrists of Kings

Finally, I'll leave you with some Isis. This is from one of my all time favourite albums, and one of the best post metal albums you'll ever here. It's simply masterful.

KnightDriver

10/22/2014 at 03:05 AM

I really like how that Wrists of Kings song builds. I like all the rest too. Great choices.

Ranger1

10/22/2014 at 05:08 PM

Your Kayo Dot video is gone already. I'll have a listen to the others while I'm doing the washing up after dinner, as I am old and have no patience to just sit here and watch long youtube videos. And this way, I'll have to listen to them all the way though, as well.

10/22/2014 at 05:41 PM

OK, listened while checking in on an argument I accidently caused elsewhere on the internet. Not my thing, but it definitely is atmospheric.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

10/23/2014 at 12:17 AM

Which one did you listen too? Also, what is your kind of music btw. And yeah, they're not for everyone, especially the Ahab one, as it falls into one of the most extreme metal genres - funeral doom metal. I like it though.

10/23/2014 at 07:43 AM

I listened to all of them (except the removed one). As for what is my kind of music, well, that's pretty hard to define. I listen to a lot of very different music. Easier to list what I don't like: Most opera, most death metal, all Christian contemporary, and most jazz. Everything else, I'm pretty open to. But I'll listen to almost anything once.

Alex-C25

10/23/2014 at 04:58 PM

Love me some atmospheric stuff.

Sadly, the Kayo Dot video was removed, but I enjoyed the rest of the songs. My favorite has to be Wrist of Kings, due to its progression and I felt it captured really well that atmospheric feel I look in Metal or other kinds of Music.

10/26/2014 at 11:59 PM

Awesome, glad you like it :) Are you much into post metal?

10/27/2014 at 06:53 PM

I pretty much got into anything Post Rock and Metal to a certain extent after I discovered the band Mogwai. It's very relaxing music and it can be very beautiful.

PixlBit