Ambient Sunday with Mason Lynass, and Loops & Loops #Ambient #Chill #Downtempo #IDM

Ambient Sunday today is a mixture of IDM and lofi chill coming from Mason Lynass and Loops & Loops.

Mason Lynass is up first. He’s a musician, sound designer, and music producer living in Seattle, WA. Here’s a track, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Brown, from his new Music For An Ordinary Day album. Rather sweetly, the download from Bandcamp for the album comes with a Santal & lavender & eucalyptus candle.

I’m assuming that Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Brown comes from the changing colours of leaves through the year. The pleasure in the ordinary and the otherwise overlooked pervades the album. Mason says of it that “I hope you can use this music to take a moment for yourself, to motivate you through the day, or to open your mind to the things that might seem mundane.”

The track is a mix of Eno-type wallpaper ambient with added deep bass and a bit of IDM awkwardness. It has a central chime and washes tones but never disappears into itself. It has a sense of gentle awe and wonder at the things all around us as it parps its way along. It’s a stroll in the park with the pots and pans of human activity. So as it starts does it end with that deep bass going to fade. Lovely.

Loops & Loops is also from the USA with work that stretches from indie to dream pop in a side project started during quarantine. But featured track Hazy Afternoon goes for a lofi downtempo appeal.

The track is taken from the new EP Just Another Day which was “constructed from various journal entries about my experiences during the day.”

Of Hazy Afternoon Loops & Loops says, “it is a chilled/downtempo track based on one literal and metaphorical hazy afternoon. Inspired by Boards of Canada, Air, and chilled tracks.” It opens with a sort of backwards melody which has a hint of awkward haze about it alongside some lofi beats giving that Study Beats appeal.

Keyboards come to give a little melody uplift but nothing too dramatic to disturb that sense of weary blurred calm. Settling into a groove these elements weave their way to the end of the track. At the end of a hot and sunny day this is the perfect stepping off point from the world outside.

~ by acidted on May 22, 2022.