Dear Gravity & Raphah - Chronos (2026)

Another transatlantic collaborations in recent months makes it to the blog. This time it's a short EP made by Mike Graff aka Dear Gravity from the States and the artist known as Raphah from UK. It is short, but it's also so beautiful like a drop of dew in the morning sunshine.

As is clearly stated in the EP's title, the main theme of music here is the concept of time. The slow, introspective compositions feel like they are meant to make you experience the time flowing around you, from nothingness to nothingness. But while this concept is dreadful (to me and I'm sure to most people), the artists turn it into a thing of beauty. Thick layers of ambient with occasional droplets of piano sounds always get me. The album's slow pace and beautiful combination of neoclassical and ambient sound is a perfect way to end a day.

Chronos costs 5 USD.

Check: Chronos

Country: Minnesota, US/UK

Genre: neoclassical ambient

Label: Echoes Blue Music

Dear Gravity & We Dream of Eden - Holocene (2022)

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Driftless - Perfect Blue (2022)

They have already three short albums in their discography, the Minnesota-based trio Driftless make their post-rock/dream pop music for six years now and last December they released their newest album called Perfect Blue.

They don't like longer forms of albums, especially for this kind of music. The new one is only half an hour-long, but it doesn't stop it from being extremely moody and utterly captivating. This is the kind of post-rock with vocals Hammock is known for: it's very often close to ambient's level of peacefulness, but, in time, gets more and more post-rock intensive. And this music is made more atmospheric and definitely more dreamy with the inclusion of the utterly oneiric, whispering vocals that function among the instruments like fog in a fairy-tale forest. On this album, the band chose to make the compositions longer, only three fit here, but it means that they let them develop, slowly but surely, towards very satisfying, although toned-down little crescendos of dreamy, beautiful post-rock.

Perfect Blue costs 6 USD.

Check: Renew

Country: Minnesota, US

Genre: oneiric post-rock

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Dear Gravity & We Dream of Eden - Holocene (2022)

Two years after their previous release, Riven, two ambient artists - Minnesota-based Mike Graff aka Dear Gravity and Tennessee's Kirk Smith (We Dream of Eden) created together a short but beautiful EP. Released by Echoes Blue Music Holocene makes a fantastic blend of delicate ambient and neoclassical soundscape.

The short album depicts "the concept of passing life down to the next generation" and tries to pour the artists' personal feelings onto the audience. Musically speaking it's an electronic soundscape that is first of all moody and, secondly, ready too strike awe in the audience with the tasteful use of synth sounds. Although there are traces of melodies (like the leitmotif in Adventus), the album's main goal has to be creating this audio place where a listener can get lost for a second - the slower, calmer tracks here (like Tragedy & Triumph) and their homogeneous, thick soundscape surely work that way.

Holocene costs 5 USD.

Check: Sojourn

Country: Minnesota/Tennessee, US

Genre: lively soundscape

Label: Echoes Blue Music

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WatchCamp September-October'21 with Lumari, Midsommar, The Never Not, stars on fire, XIX

Lumari - Doors and Corners

A Minnesota-based debut; the noisy pop band shows that they know how to create melodic and loud music with their first single delivering some interesting airy and atmospheric pop with super fun chorus and angelic-like vocals. The single costs 1 USD.

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Midsommar - Summer's Over

This new Polish band released two singles so far and one thing is certain: the capital city-based band already enriches the fairly narrow dream pop scene here, with the extremely ethereal compositions with thick atmosphere and Alia Fay's beautiful vocals. The debut EP is coming very, very soon. The single costs whatever you want to pay.

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The Never Not - Thorn Resistance

A well-crafted guitar post-rock music, this is what the audience can find on the Russian project's third single ever. Artiom Kurylow shows here some interesting instrumental sounds with particularly mighty guitar and a good piece of noisy finish. The single costs whatever you want to pay.

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stars on fire - Ready, Steady, Go!

Lo-fi bedroom gaze without much of the twee-like happiness but with tons of atmosphere enchanted in the whisper-like vocals and lively but non-overwhelmingly noisy instruments. Listeners will find the melodies very charming and that alone can be the best point about the South Korean artist's music. The two tracks cost 5 USD.

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XIX - Arcobaleni / Neve

The young Italian electronic music artist Marco Anulli gives us his new single with two tracks created with the experimental and noisy vibes in mind. They both feel fresh and curiously complex and at the same time present moody, almost ethereal, atmosphere. The two tracks cost whatever you want to pay.

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