Nu Gaze Dissected | Features. Lost lost lost / / a new music blog. Basement Fever. Sexton Creeps - Official Website. The War On Drugs Know How to End an Argument - Noisey Meets. Best 25 Indie Rock Songs. Bastille. Ambient music. Ambient music includes forms of music that put an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Ambient music is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual"[2] or "unobtrusive" quality.[3] To quote one pioneer, Brian Eno, "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
"[4] As a genre it originated in the United Kingdom at a time when new sound-making devices such as the synthesizer, were being introduced to a wider market. Ambient had a revival towards the late 1980s with the prominence of house and techno music. History[edit] As a genre, ambient music usually focuses on creating a mood or atmosphere through synthesizers and timbral qualities. Ambient did not achieve large commercial success, being criticized as having a "boring" and "over-intellectual" sound.[6] Nevertheless, it has also attained a certain degree of acclaim throughout the years. Swim Deep : C-Heads Magazine. The Cure’s Robert Smith delivers rare solo performance. Technical difficulties delayed the start of The Cure’s headlining performance at Spain’s Bilbao BBK Live festival on Thursday night. So, to kill time, Robert Smith performed a solo acoustic set featuring renditions of “Three Imaginary Boys,” “Fire in Cairo”, and “Boys Don’t Cry”.
This sort of thing doesn’t happen often, and as Smith said to close his performance, “That’s why it’s The Cure and not Robert Smith.” Watch a rip of the webcast below (via slicing up eyeballs). Our own Jeremy Larson recently caught The Cure during his trip to Beligum, and you can read all about it here. Yuck Talk Grunge Revival - 24 Jan 2011.