Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. And finally today, to create a ...

Ambient is anything but a singles genre. The album form is made for the beatless drifts that define ambient music, which developed meaningfully in the mid-‘70s from a general zeitgeist for a ...

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 ...