For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) by Huerco S.
https://brianleeds.bandcamp.com/
Some of you know I’m big fan of ambient music as a genre and a record doesn’t have to be elite to borrow some of my time and even my love. Like most genres ambient music can tap on different emotions and moods. But unlike most, not all, but most genres, the crème de la crème is rooted in a pleasant ambiguity. I read this elsewhere but it can be as non-distracting as you like as well as engaging as you like. Honestly, it’s not easy to talk about ambiguity. Probably because it’s so ambiguous. But still in that cloud cover the best stuff is still music and hangs its hat on melodic hooks. They might be made out of sound helium but they’re in there. This is great music, differentially great, because at the core there’s clever sound progression, which is really another way of saying it’s melodic.